Yale Faculty of Engineering

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Yale University Faculty of Engineering


Established	1852
Type	Private
Location	New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Dean	Paul A. Fleury
Website	www.eng.yale.edu

Engineering education at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut has a long history starting in 1852 with the professorship of William Augustus Norton and its beginnings in the Sheffield Scientific School. The Yale Faculty of Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate classes and degrees in electrical, mechanical, chemical, biomedical and environmental engineering as well as in applied physics. There are strong research programs in biomolecular engineering, combustion, microelectronics, materials, medical imaging and nanoscience.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a gradual reorganization of engineering education at Yale took place with the integration of Sheffield programs with Yale College and Graduate School and the creation of a School of Engineering. In 1961, the school was reduced to a department within Yale College. Since that time, engineering has undergone a renaissance at Yale. In 1970, Becton Center (designed by Marcel Breuer) was opened, replacing Winchester Hall and North Sheffield. The appointment of D. Allan Bromley as Dean of Engineering in 1994 provided much needed momentum. Dean Bromley was a forceful advocate for engineering at Yale. New programs in biomedical and environmental engineering were introduced during his tenure. Bromley also instituted the Sheffield Fellowship, to recognize technological leaders, the Sheffield Distinguished Teaching Awards, and the "Select Program", a five-year combined B.S. M.Eng. degree program, all named to honor the Sheffield Scientific School. In 2000, Paul A. Fleury was appointed Dean. Yale Engineering celebrated it sesquicentennial in 2002. The Malone Engineering Center was opened in October, 2005, designed by Cesar Pelli and named for the father of John C. Malone, a major donor.

Yale Engineering was ranked Number 1 among federally-funded U.S. universities in 2007 in faculty publication citation impact for the period from 2001 to 2005 based on average citations per paper. ^[1] Yale Engineering had also been ranked Number 1 from 1997 to 2001.^[2] Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Yale were both ranked in the top ten in the U.S. according to the scholarly activity index of the Chronicle of Higher Education.^[3] Yale Engineering also has the second lowest student to faculty ratio in the U.S. ^[4]