Boston University ’s College of Engineering opened its doors in 1950 and since then has grown to become one of the leading engineering college’s in the United States. In U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 America’s Best Engineering Graduate Schools, the College ranked 44th. Of the top 50 graduate engineering schools, ENG ranked 21st in research dollars per faculty member and graduated the 18th highest percentage of female Ph.D.s in the nation.

The College’s BME department is ranked seventh in the nation, and Boston University is the only institution to have received both the Whitaker Foundation’s Leadership Award ($14 million) and the Coulter Foundation’s Translational Research Partnership ($15 million potential). In 2008, Professor Jim Collins from the BME Department was named as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator, the first HHMI awarded to a Boston University faculty member.

The College houses world-class faculty and cutting-edge research facilities, providing opportunities for undergraduates to work alongside faculty in high-tech laboratories supplying students with the education and experience they need to lead fulfilling professional lives as the engineers and technology leaders of tomorrow. Students choose to major in one of six undergraduate and eight graduate disciplines offered by three departments and two interdisciplinary divisions:

ENG is dedicated to expanding scientific and technological frontiers through research and discovery and maintains a strong commitment to helping its 1,695 students, 125 faculty members, and 12,045 alumni stay ahead of the innovation curve.

One unique opportunity offered by the College is a study-abroad program that is specifically designed for engineering undergraduates. This program adds a unique international perspective without delaying graduation and features opportunities in Dresden, Germany; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Guadalajara, Mexico.

The Engineering Annual Fund: Enhancing Student Quality of Life
The EAF has a major impact on our students’ preprofessional quality of life, providing funds that extend beyond what tuition and external research grants can provide and making a number of new and exciting opportunities available to current Engineering students.
The EAF is one of the few sources of unrestricted funds available to Dean Ken Lutchen, and he is pleased to use the fund to support student-enrichment activities such as the ones listed below. Contributions to the EAF will be put to immediate good use in supporting these programs that make a critical, positive difference in the student-engineering experience.

Programs and activities supported by
The College of Engineering Annual Fund:
The Engineering Annual Fund is one of the few private sources of unrestricted funds available to Dean Ken Lutchen. It has brought him great satisfaction to use almost all of those monies to enhance student quality of life initiatives. This umbrella fund allows him to invest and stimulate a wide spectrum of specific programs and projects, including:

• The Summer Term Alumni Research Scholars (STARS) program, which provides a housing allowance for full-time undergraduates who are hired by a faculty member to assist with that faculty member’s research program during the summer months
• The Supplemental Undergraduate Research Funds (SURF) program, which encourages faculty to involve undergraduates in their research program during the academic year by providing matching funds for undergraduate students who are working on faculty-sponsored research
• The BU FIRST (For Inspiration and Respect for Science and Technology) robotics team program, which provides space for and support to undergraduate engineering students who advise and assist the BU Academy FIRST team.  BU has hosted the Boston Regional FIRST competition the past three years at Agganis Arena 
• The BU Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, which is working to build The Hummingbird House, a community center providing a library, pharmacy, and art room to the village of Chirimoto, Peru
• The BU Nano-Satellite program, a joint program between the College of Engineering, Photonics, and the Center for Space Physics that funds teams of engineering undergraduates to design a nano-scale satellite the Air Force will use
• Several undergraduate clubs, including the BU Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the Minority Engineers Society (MES) and the Society of Hispanic Engineers (SHPE), who have been able to send members to attend their national organizations’ annual conference, providing opportunities for students to engage and network with professional engineers
• The Excellence in Engineering Book Awards, which provide a number of stipends to deserving students in need, to be spent at the BU bookstore for textbooks or other academic course materials
• BU Mini Baja Team, which participated in the National Society of Automotive Engineers annual Mini Baja East competition where students design and build a vehicle that competes in a race inspired by the annual Baja, California four-wheeler race

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