Faculty

• Tenured and tenure-track faculty: 328
• Research faculty: 74

Students

• Students enrolled
  • Bachelor’s: 5,120
  • Master’s: 1,243
  • Doctoral: 1,289

Alumni

• The College has more than 60,000 living alumni including:
  • Larry Page, cofounder of Google
  • Tony Fadell, Apple iPod division senior vice president (leader of the team that created the iPod)
  • Chuck Vest, retired MIT president
  • Claude Shannon, the father of information theory
  • Alfred Worden, David Scott and James Irwin, who flew aboard Apollo 15

Departments

• Aerospace Engineering (AERO)
• Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences (AOSS)
• Biomedical Engineering (BME)
• Chemical Engineering (CHE)
• Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
• Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE)
• Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
• Mechanical Engineering (ME)
• Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME)
• Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS)

Rankings

Academic Year 2007-2008, According to U.S. News & World Report

Note: U.S. News does not rate Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences or Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
*Area of concentration

Budget

• At more than $130 million annually, the College’s engineering research budget is one of largest of any public university in the nation.

History

• The College was the first public engineering school in the country to grant a degree.
• The first Michigan engineering building opened on campus in 1881.
• The College offered its first automotive engineering class in 1913.
• The nation’s first aeronautical engineering program started here in 1916.
• In 1953, Nuclear Engineering offered the nation’s first graduate program in the field.
• In 1957, College researchers created the first maser, the precursor to the laser.
• In 1971, an all-Michigan crew took Apollo 15 to the moon.