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The University of Michigan College of Engineering is the engineering unit of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. With an enrollment of 4,874 undergraduate and 2,704 graduate students as of 2004,^[1] the College of Engineering is one of the premier engineering schools in the United States. In various ranking systems, the college is frequently ranked as one of the top ten engineering schools in the nation.

The college was founded in 1854, with courses in civil engineering. Since its founding, the College of Engineering established some of the earliest programs in various fields such aeronautical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and nuclear engineering. The Materials Science and Engineering program is the oldest continuing metallurgy and materials program in the United States, at 105 years (as of 2005). Biomedical engineering is one of the newest programs established at the College of Engineering.

The college was first located on the University's Central Campus before moving to the University's North Campus, starting in the late 1940s. Today, the College of Engineering is primarily located on North Campus (the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory is located on Central Campus), which is shared with the School of Information, School of Music, School of Art and Design, and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Current Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering is Dr. David C. Munson Jr.

The North Campus Diag, looking towards (from right to left) the EECS Building, G.G. Brown, and H. H. Dow Building (hidden by trees)

The college grants degrees at the Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD levels. Engineering fields covered at the college include:

• Aerospace Engineering
• Applied Physics
• Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences (AOSS)
• Biomedical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (contains Computer Engineering unit also)
• Engineering Physics
• Financial Engineering
• Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE)
• Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME)
• Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS)

Many of these programs are ranked in the top ten in the United States according to US News and World Report.^[2]

Various laboratories are located at the college of engineering, including the Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS) and the Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS), both of which are NSF laboratories. Another major laboratory is the Center for Ultra-Fast Optical Sciences. The Phoenix Memorial Laboratory is a laboratory dedicated to research into the peaceful use of nuclear technology. It once housed the Ford nuclear reactor, which has been decommissioned.

The college of engineering also has wind tunnels, electron microscope and ion beam laboratories, a civil engineering test facility, and solid state manufacturing facilities. Various laboratories dedicated to automotive engineering, optical sciences, and robotics are scattered throughout the college. A hydrodynamics laboratory is located on the University's Central Campus. An office of the Weather Underground is located at the College of Engineering.

The Duderstadt Center

The Duderstadt Center, formerly the Media Union, is named after former University president and nuclear engineering professor James Duderstadt. It houses the College of Engineering Library and also contains computer clusters, audio and video editing laboratories, galleries, and studios, as well as usability and various digital media laboratories, including virtual reality. The Millennium Project, which focuses on the future of the university learning environment, is also housed in the Duderstadt Center.

Computer services and networking is provided by CAEN, the Computer Aided Engineering Network. CAEN operates various computer laboratories throughout the College of Engineering and the University campuses. It also operates the college's wireless network and runs daily backups for College of Engineering and mail servers.

There are student branches of various professional organizations such as IEEE and ASME as well as honor societies. Most are housed in Pierpont Commons (the student union on North Campus) or the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) building. The University of Michigan Engineering Council (UMEC), represents the student body of the College of Engineering, also has an office in the EECS building. It meets on a bi-weekly basis and its newsletter, The All-Nighter, is published on the dates of the general body meetings.^[3]

Civil and mechanical engineering project teams are primarily housed in the Wilson Student Project Center. Several major project teams include Concrete Canoe, Formula SAE M Racing Team, Michigan Mars Rover Team, Steel Bridge, and the University of Michigan Solar Car Team. In 2006, the UM Human Powered Submarine Team won the International Submarine Races.^[4]

Tech Day is the college's annual fall event that invites prospective high school students and their parents, as well as prospective college transfer students, to explore Michigan Engineering. Tech Day brings over 500 prospective students (and over 500 of their parents) together on campus.

• List of University of Michigan people - People associated with the college are marked with COE

• The University of Michigan College of Engineering Bulletin 2004-05. Vol. 33, number 2. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Marketing Communications (University of Michigan), July 7, 2004.

• Michigan Engineering
• Map and Virtual Tour of the College