The College of Engineering, formerly the Dwight Look College of Engineering, is the engineering school of Texas A&M University in College Station and is home to over 22,000 students in 15 departments.
Prior to 2016, the college was known as the Dwight Look College of Engineering. The college was named after the civil engineering graduate, Harold Dwight Look, an army veteran of World War II who later founded a construction company on the U.S. Territory of Guam, where he lived for 40 years until his death on September 5, 2002, at the age of 80. It was the largest single gift ever received by the university, which later named the engineering college after Look. It was reported that Texas A&M was looking to sell the property in 2009.
Individual engineering programs as ranked among public institutions by U.S. News & World Report:
- Aerospace: 6th graduate, 8th undergraduate
- Biological and Agricultural: 6th graduate, 1st undergraduate
- Biomedical: 18th graduate
- Chemical: 14th graduate, 12th undergraduate
- Computer Engineering: 11th graduate, 12th undergraduate
- Computer Science: 20th graduate, 16th undergraduate
- Civil Engineering: 9th graduate, 7th undergraduate
- Electrical: 13th graduate, 11th undergraduate
- Industrial and Systems Engineering: 5th graduate, 7th undergraduate
- Materials Science: 8th graduate, 12th undergraduate
- Mechanical: 6th graduate, 7th undergraduate
- Nuclear: 7th graduate, 2nd undergraduate (2019)
- Petroleum: 2nd graduate, 1st undergraduate
Research
In 2005, the college had $179 million in engineering research expenditures, making it the 5th college nationally in research expenditures. The 2010 U.S. News & World Report
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