Message From Dean Tong
Welcome to the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
As you move around our website you may notice that we proudly state
key facts about our school in several locations. We do this because
we believe that they are a large part of what makes this a great place
to learn, and because we want you to know them, too.
Foremost among them: our students receive a first-rate education that
prepares them to help advance the frontiers of technology. Through our
hands-on curriculum, our students design and construct all-terrain vehicles
that successfully traverse mountains and rivers; they design, launch,
and float concrete canoes; and they harness the power of the sun to
race cars that they design, build, and test. In other words, our engineers
don't just learn theory – they build on it.
At the School of Engineering and Applied Science, teaching and research
go hand-in-hand. We are a $100 million research university where students
and faculty work side-by-side at the cutting edge of research. With
an emphasis on excellence in biomedical engineering, information technology/telecommunications,
and transportation/safety and security, the School is poised to help
lead the next generation of technological advances.
Beyond this, we are uniquely positioned to give students something
that virtually no other engineering program can offer: the atmosphere
of a small school, combined with the resources of a medium-sized university
and the opportunities available in a large city.
Our students learn in small classes, have a great deal of interaction
with our distinguished faculty, and enroll in flexible programs designed
to meet their varying needs, whether they be full- or part-time, undergraduate
or graduate, or on- or off-campus students.
Our location in Washington, D.C. and the northern Virginia Technology
Corridor gives students an unequalled combination of research, work,
and social/cultural opportunities. Our students can access the people
who shape technological change – from world-class scientists to
cutting-edge policymakers – and the organizations that support
it, from the National Science Foundation and the NASA-Goddard Space
Flight Center to the Naval Research Laboratory and the Library of Congress.
We’re proud of the resources and opportunities that our School
offers its students. Please take some time to look around our site and
see what we can offer you, too. Thanks for visiting.
Sincerely,
Timothy W. Tong, Ph.D.
Dean
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