The school would expand the existing Division of Engineering, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and cost roughly $100 million. According to Kertzer, much of the funding for the new school would come from private donations.
“You need to have a certain critical mass” to conduct exciting research, engineering professor Rodney Clifton said. “We’re so small that it’s hard.”
The current proposal includes a newly constructed building, 35 percent of which will be occupied by the school of engineering. It also proposes hiring 12 new faculty members in the fields of engineering, energy and environment.
“The more research, the more excitement for undergraduates to get involved as a part of their education,” Kertzer said.
Brown has been considering such a move for some time, Clifton told the Herald. He noted that the university’s lack of a formal school of engineering has lowered its national profile.
“Graduate students look up schools of engineering,” he said. “Brown is not on that list.”
Additionally, he said he believes that Brown’s low percentage of students enrolled as engineers has hurt its engineering profile. Only 5–7 percent of Brown students are enrolled as engineers, while 18–20 percent are enrolled at Princeton.
Clifton said he believes it is time to establish a formal school of engineering.
“It needs to be done,” he said. “Brown would have been more out in front had we done it earlier.”
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