Maryland Engineering ranks #11 among public colleges in the U.S.
The University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering ranks #11 among the country’s public universities in U.S. News & World Report 2022-23 Best Colleges rankings, rising one spot from #12 in 2022. The 2022-23 list, released on September 12, also ranks the Clark School as the #22 overall undergraduate engineering program in the nation. "The Clark School of Engineering has outstanding faculty, staff, and students. These rankings reflect the incredible community they have built to foster both education and innovation that impacts the world,” Dean Samuel Graham, Jr. said. "I am proud of the accomplishments of our Maryland Engineers and the direction we are headed. We are developing the leaders our nation needs to address grand challenges." Two Clark School departments—Civil & Environmental Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering—follow suit, moving up to 18th (Civil), 13th (Electrical), and 12th (Computer) among public institutions. Mechanical Engineering maintains its position at #12. Bioengineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering debut in the rankings at #9 and #15 respectively. Another Year of Societal ImpactThis recognition from the U.S. News voters concludes the Clark School’s successful academic year and summer. On July 12, 2022, citizens of Earth saw the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Among them were two Maryland Engineering alumni—Wen-Hsien Chuang (ECE Ph.D. 2005) and Dan Kelly (ECE M.S. 2005; ECE B.S. 2002)—who knew exactly how those pictures were obtained and processed. Both played key roles in developing the Near InfraRed Spectrograph, a breakthrough instrument designed to observe up to 100 space objects simultaneously. Best-in-Class Student Competition Teams
Closer to Earth, another Maryland Engineering student team took the first place in the inaugural First Responder UAS Triple Challenge 3.1: FastFind Competition hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Student inventors presented an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system that could "increase the speed of search and rescue operations where direct visual contact with a potential subject may be obscured."
Over the summer, UMD hosted three international robotics competitions, with thousands of international K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students building and testing robots and autonomous aerial and underwater vehicles in the Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Test Site, and other venues. New World-Class Facilities
Prolific PartnershipsThe Clark School also expanded its collaboration with Amazon, conducting the Amazon-University of Maryland Design Challenge with undergraduate students proposing enhancements for Spotify and other apps.
The college's efforts diversifying the engineering profession gained recognition from the National Science Foundation. At the end of the summer, the NSF ranked the University of Maryland as #1 non-historically Black college for African American undergraduates who later achieved doctoral degrees from 2010 to 2020. Maryland Engineering rankings
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