| A. James Clark School of Engineering | |
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Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology in 2007 |
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| Established | 1894 |
| Type | Public |
| Dean | Darryll Pines, Ph.D. |
| Undergraduates | 2,436 |
| Postgraduates | 1,618 |
| Location | College Park, Maryland, USA |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Website | http://www.eng.umd.edu/ |
The A. James Clark School of Engineering is the engineering college of the University of Maryland, College Park. The Clark School of Engineering is nationally ranked and consistently considered to be among the Top 20 engineering programs in the United States. The school consists of fourteen buildings on the College Park campus that cover over 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m2). The school's location in close proximity to Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and technology-driven institutions such as NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, gives students extraordinary opportunities to perform state of the art research and propel their entrepreneurial ambitions.
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The engineering school was originally founded in 1894 under the name The College of Engineering at what was then known as the Maryland Agricultural College. In 1949, the school was renamed the Glenn L. Martin College of Engineering and Aeronautical Sciences. In 1994, the college took its current name, the 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 financial gifts to the university were honored, in return, with the name of the Engineering School.
In 2007, The Princeton Review ranked the Clark School as the sixth-best engineering program in the nation. The 2007 U.S. News and World Report placed it at 10th in the nation among public engineering schools and 16th among all engineering schools.[2] Additionally, the Institute of Higher Education and Center for World-Class Universities ranked the A. James Clark School thirteenth worldwide. In 2011, the Academic Ranking of World Universities placed the the University at 11th worldwide within the fields of Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences. [3]
The following individuals are alumni of the School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Graduating class year is denoted in parentheses.[5]
The following individuals are notable benefactors, but are not alumni of the A. James Clark School of Engineering.[5]