A. James Clark School of Engineering

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A. James Clark School of Engineering
Established:	1894
Type:	Public
Dean:	Nariman Farvardin, Ph.D.
Undergraduates:	2,811
Postgraduates:	1,626
Location:	College Park, Maryland, USA
Campus:	Suburban
Website:	http://www.eng.umd.edu/

Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology

The A. James Clark School of Engineering is the Engineering College at the University of Maryland, College Park. The Clark School of Engineering is nationally ranked and consistently considered to have one of the top 20 Engineering programs in the country. The school consists of 14 buildings on the college park campus (over 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m²). of space). The geographical location of the school in relation to Washington D.C., Baltimore, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and many other high profile places gives students extraordinary opportunities to perform state of the art research and propel their entrepreneurial ambitions.

[edit] History

The Engineering school was originally founded in 1894 under the name The College of Engineering. In 1949 the school was renamed to become the Glenn L. Martin College of Engineering and Aeronautical Sciences. In 1994 the College was again renamed, becoming the current A. James Clark School of Engineering.^[1] A. James Clark is a 1950 engineering graduate of the University who is chairman and chief executive officer of Clark Enterprises, Inc. Clark's generous financial gifts to the university were honored, in return, with the name of the Engineering School. ^[2]

[edit] Reputation

[edit] Rankings

The Princeton Reviews 2007 rankings placed the Clark school at 6th in the nation. The 2007 U.S. News and World Report placed the Clark School at 10th in the nation among public engineering schools and 16th among all engineering schools. Additionally, the Institute of Higher Education and Center for World-Class Universities ranked the A. James Clark School 13th worldwide.^[3]

[edit] Departments

• Aerospace Engineering
• Bioengineering
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Fire Protection Engineering
  • The A. James Clark School is nationally home to the only fully accredited undergraduate program and one of two graduate degree programs in Fire Protection Engineering.^[4]
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

[edit] Research

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http://www.eng.umd.edu/research/

[edit] Entrepreneurship

[edit] For Faculty and Students

• Entrepreneurship Courses
  • Currently Five classes available. Offered through MTECH Ventures
• VentureAccelerator
  • hands on help offering resources, consulting and mentoring for getting your idea off the ground
• [http://www.bootcamp.umd.edu/ Technology Start-Up Boot Camp
  • Annual day-long workshop on how to start your own company
• University of Maryland $50k Business Plan Competition
  • Annual competition for students who create the best business plan for new ventures
• Hinman CEOs
  • Living-learning entrepreneurial community

[edit] Technology Ventures

• Technology Advancement Program (TAP)
  • Home of the states first and most powerful technology incubator
• Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS)
  • "Cost-shared product R&D for Maryland companies, including startups, to speed new technologies to market."

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[edit] Notable Alumni

• Glenn L. Martin - Pioneer airplane builder
• A. James Clark - (1950 graduate) Chairman and CEO, Clark Enterprises, Inc.
• Jeong H. Kim - (1991 graduate) president of Bell Labs (Currently Lucent Acetel Technologies).
• Robert E. Fischell - Inventor of medical devices (including today's popular heart stent produced by Johnson & Johnson).
• Michael D. Griffin - (1977 graduate) Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
• Brian Hinman - (1982) Entrepreneur and educational innovator.
• Gordon England - (1961) Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense.
• Edward A. Miller / James Plummer - (1950/ 1953) - 2005 Charles Stark Draper Prize winners^[6].

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[edit] Current and Future Developments

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• College of Engineering Official Site