“If we really want to change the world it starts with educating the new engineer — an engineer who’s technically competent, but [also] one who is capable of leading and innovating in a world that is increasingly global and virtual.”
POWERING THE NEW ENGINEER
— Cammy Abernathy
Brave New World Powering the New Engineer is the most ambitious undertaking in the engineering college’s 100-plus-year history: a movement to “lead the next era of technological revolution by preparing a generation of engineers capable of solving global problems and creating and commercializing the discoveries that will transform the way we live our lives.” • 2 NEW BUILDINGS under construction or in design, as of fall 2020 • 12 DEGREE PROGRAMS (agricultural and biological, biomedical, civil, computer, environmental, electrical, industrial and systems, materials science, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, and nuclear) jump in national rankings in 2019 and 2020
CHRIS MALACHOWSKY
HERBERT WERTHEIM
• 76 NEW FACULTY hired since 2018 • 11 STUDENT STARTUPS • 42 INNOVATION-RELATED LICENSES or options • 225 PATENT APPLICATIONS
THE GO GREATER TRANSFORMATION Wertheim College of Engineering