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- Facts and Figures
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Largest department/school at Purdue University and one of the
- largest in the nation. Highest volume of research among all
- schools and departments at Purdue. Birthplace of the EPICS
- program, the Birck Nanotechnology Center, and ECN. Faculty
- include 23 IEEE Fellows, four members of the National Academy of
- Engineering (NAE), two NAE Gordon Prize winners, one National
- Medal of Technology Laureate, and the President of the IEEE. The
- school attracts more than 1,500 applicants to its graduate program
- annually. The first electronic television was made in ECE.
- Former Head of ECE, Reginald Fessenden, invented radio telephony.
- College of Engineering facts and figures
- First engineering degree granted in 1878 340 faculty and over
- 8,500 students Graduate programs rank 12th and undergraduate 8th
- by U.S. News & World Report Living alumni number more than
- 70,000—including the first and last man on the moon. $600M in new
- engineering buildings since 2002 Milestones: First Department of
- Freshman Engineering (1953) First Women in Engineering Program
- (1969) Founding site of the National Society of Black Engineers
- (NSBE, 1971–1975) Founding site of EPICS (Engineering Projects in
- Community Service, 1995) First department dedicated to engineering
- education (2004)
- University facts and figures
- Land–grant institution founded in 1869 West Lafayette campus
- (2000+ acres) enrolls over 38,000 students Largest international
- student population of any U.S. public university 3,000 faculty
- members System–wide research expenditures total $407.8 million
- Over 400 research labs on the West Lafayette campus Purdue
- Research Park ranked #1 Discovery Park represents a $250 million
- investment for interdisciplinary research
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