Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
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The Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering is one of the schools of Arizona State University. It provides undergraduate and graduate programs for engineering, computer science, and construction students. The school is ranked 41st in the nation for undergraduate programs, 47th for graduate programs and five graduate majors are in the top 30, according to U.S. News & World Report.
[edit] History
Fulton School was started in 1954 with authorization of the College of Applied Arts and Sciences. In 1956, the first bachelor's degree program in engineering was approved. The School of Engineering was created in 1958. In 1970, a Division of Construction was added.
In 1992, through a gift of the Del E. Webb Foundation, an endowment was set up to create the Del E. Webb School of Construction, (see Del Webb). A separate school was created for technology and, in 1996, the Schools of Technology and Agribusiness moved to ASU Main Campus.
In 2002, the Department of Bioengineering was renamed the Harrington Department of Bioengineering.
In 2003, Ira A. Fulton, founder and CEO of Fulton Homes, established an endowment of $50 million. The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences was renamed in his honor.
Fulton School is located within The Brickyard on Mill Avenue complex in downtown Tempe, Arizona. The Brickyard also contains the Institute for Computing and Information Science and Engineering, the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, the Center for Research in Arts, Media and Engineering, the Consortium for Embedded and InterNetworking Technologies, the Partnership for Research in Stereo Modeling, and the Software Factory.
Fulton School promotes and facilitates collaborative research between faculty and industry partners.
Arizona Technology Enterprises, located on the sixth floor of The Brickyard, transfers technologies invented at ASU to the private sector by mining university research, prosecuting patents, negotiating licenses and marketing inventions.
The Fulton School's Entrepreneurial Programs Office is an engine of transformation, not only training new generations of engineers, computer scientists and constructors, but also in serving the region.
Fulton School research activities take place in association with numerous centers, institutes and programs within the school and across ASU.
[edit] Graduate programs
Graduate programs include: M.S. Chemical Engineering; M.S.E. Chemical Engineering (SPM Focus); Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering; M.S.E., M.S. and Ph.D. in Construction Engineering with cooperation of the Del E. Webb School of Construction at ASU; M.S.E., M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with options for multidisciplinary research in microbiology, chemical and materials engineering and other departments; geotechnical/geoenvironmental engineering; structures and materials; transportation/materials engineering; water resources engineering.
