Research Facts, Distinctions and News
Annual Research Expenditures 2008
$36 million
National Academy of Engineering Members
Michael Carroll, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
George Hirasaki, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Bioengineering
Pol Spanos, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Richard Tapia, Computational and Applied Mathematics
Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science
Recent NSF CAREER Award Recipients
2007: Michael Diehl, Bioengineering; Ramon Gonzalez, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Farinaz Koushanfar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2008: Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Kartik Mohanram, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Walid Taha, Computer Science; Wotao Yin, Computational and Applied Mathematics
2009: Daniel Cohan, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Oleg Igoshin, Bioengineering; Luay Nakhleh, Computer Science
U.S. News and World Report Rankings 2009
Graduate School Programs in Top 10:
Computer programming language specialty in computer science #9
Biomedical/bioengineering #9
Highly Cited Researchers
Behnaam Aazhang, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Daniel Sorensen, Computational and Applied Mathematics
Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science
Research Centers and Institutes
Engineering-related research centers and institutes