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How quickly will we feel harsh effects from climate change? Can we respond to dwindling fossil fuels without fueling global conflicts? Could we stop a worldwide pandemic? What are the electronic threats to our economy? How can we translate our immense new biological knowledge into usable treatments and cures?
To questions like these, Princeton brings a potent combination of strengths. By bringing together the School of Engineering and Applied Science with exceptional Princeton partners such as the Woodrow Wilson School and the Princeton Environmental Institute—already an international leader in the field of climate change—we will stimulate fresh collaborations and propel inventive thinking on these urgent questions. We also aim to establish a new standard for engineering education in the 21st century, and to make engineering an essential component of every undergraduate’s experience.
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Slideshow: Images from a sampling of undergraduate and graduate courses in engineering and environmental studies, 2007-08
Read: A Sampler of Cutting-edge Engineering Research
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Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education |
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 Responding to the national need to rethink the way engineering is taught, the Keller Center is creating new courses and strengthening existing ones that go beyond purely technical subjects to provide all students with a broader understanding of technology’s societal context. Through internships and entrepreneurial opportunities as well as multidisciplinary courses, students will participate in real-world engineering projects.
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The Grand Challenges Initiative: Integrating Environment, Policy and Engineering |
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 Many of today's most pressing problems—the energy crisis, poverty in developing nations, emerging infectious diseases—represent challenges that embody environmental, social, political, and engineering dimensions. To address these problems and to make substantive progress toward solutions, the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), the Woodrow Wilson School (WWS), and the School of Engineering and Applied Science are launching the Grand Challenges Initiative, a new integrated program focused on experiential learning and cooperative research. |
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The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) |
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 CITP brings together interdisciplinary expertise to address public policy problems arising at a time when technological development has outpaced the ability of legislators and regulators to adapt to it. Princeton scholars—including faculty from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs—will work together for a year or more with visitors from other universities, the government, and the private sector to study a problem and then issue major policy analyses and recommendations.
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Energy and Environment |
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 Developing sustainable energy sources and creating a cleaner environment requires close collaboration among scientists, policy-makers, engineers, and business leaders. By building on these connections and adding additional expertise in alternative fuels, environmental engineering, and materials science, Princeton will become the leading institution in the world for solving the complex global problems caused by burning fossil fuels. |
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Engineering for Health |
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More than 20 percent of Princeton's engineering faculty are engaged in health-related research. Their work spans projects from inventing tools for disease detection and treatment to creating materials for wound healing, bone implants, and heart valves. Much of this inquiry builds on recent advances in biology, computation, and materials science. This initiative will foster cross-disciplinary teaching and research aimed at encouraging technological advances that will improve human health.
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New Facilities for the School of Engineering |
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Achieving Princeton’s expansive vision for engineering requires additional and upgraded space for research and education, including a new 40,000 square-foot building for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, to be located near the social science departments with which these programs collaborate. Other construction priorities include significant renovations to the E-Quad, as well as a new 180,000 square-foot laboratory building.
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