Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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Motto	Homo et Hominis Opera Partes Naturae
Motto in English	The human being and human works are parts of nature
Type	Private
Established	1854
Endowment	US $122.4 million[1]
President	Jerry MacArthur Hultin[2]
Provost	Katepalli R. Sreenivasan[3]
Academic staff	374
Students	4652[4]
Location	Brooklyn , NY , USA 40°41′40″N 73°59′12″W / 40.694412°N 73.986531°W / 40.694412; -73.986531
Campus	Urban
Colors	Purple and Green
Nickname	Engineers
Mascot	Fighting Blue Jays
Website	www.poly.edu

The Polytechnic Institute of New York University, often referred to as NYU Polytechnic, NYU-Poly, Poly, or NYU School of Engineering and Technology is one of the 18 schools and colleges that comprise New York University (NYU).^[5][6][7][8]

Today it is the second oldest private engineering and technology institute in the United States.^[9] The Institute counts 5 Nobel Prize winners( 2 Nobel Prize in Physics, 2 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), 3 Putnam Mathematical Competition winners, 2 Wolf Prize in Physics winners, 5 Nobel Prize of Engineering( 1 Russ Prize, 3 Gordon Prize, 1 Draper Prize) winners, 2 Nobel Prize of computing(Turing Award) winners, 2 Nobel Prize of Information Technology and Computer Engineering(W. Wallace McDowell Award), 2 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees and many Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Awards winners(including 2 IEEE Edison Medal winners and 1 IEEE Medal of Honor winner). Multiple current and former presidents of major professional societies, including the American Chemical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), are alumni. Its Carnegie Classification is Doctorate-Granting "Research University" (very high research activity).^[10] The financial engineering program was the second program of its kind, anywhere and the first curriculum to be certified by the International Association of Financial Engineers.^[11][12] NYU-Poly was one of the first universities to introduce a cyber security program, and is designated as both a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and a Center of Academic Excellence in Research by the National Security Agency.^[13] Every year, NYU-Poly hosts world’s largest capture the flag hacking competition. ^[13] Polytechnic people include Ernst Weber (engineer)(first president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and one of the founders of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE)),^{[14][15][16][17]} Herman Francis Mark (Father of Modern Polymer Science), Buddy D. Ratner (one of the founding fathers of modern bioengineering)^[18] and Elmer L. Gaden(father of Biomedical Engineering) ^[19]

Founded in 1854, the Institute adopted the European polytechnic university model which tend to be primarily devoted to the instruction of technical arts and applied sciences. Its laboratory instruction at the undergraduate and graduate levels led to close cooperation with industry.^[20][21] Its main campus is centrally located in the MetroTech Center, the nation's largest urban university-industry science and technology park.^{[22][23][24][25]} NYU-Poly operates several on-campus and off-campus business incubators and is known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace.^[20][26] NYU-Poly is one of the eight schools of NYU that is part of the NYU Entrepreneurs Network (NYUEN).^[27] NYU's Polytechnic Institute ranks 4th among Best Engineering Colleges By Salary Potential in the United States according to PayScale^[28] NYU-Poly remains in the top 50 for undergraduate engineering^[29] and in the top 67 for graduate engineering^[30] compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

Academic profile

The Polytechnic Institute of New York University was established in 1854 as a research-intensive institute with a focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Currently the Institute has 4652 students^[4] and 374 faculty members, giving a 13:1 students to faculty ratio. 90% of faculty members hold PhDs

Departments

• Applied Physics
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Civil and Urban Engineering
• Computer Science and Engineering (Applied computer science division of NYU)^[31]
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Finance and Risk Engineering
• Mathematics (sub-division of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Technology Management (affiliated with Leonard N. Stern School of Business)
• Technology, Culture and Society

Cross-school Minors

NYU-Poly is one of the 10 schools^[32] of NYU that are eligible for cross-school minoring^[33]

New departments that are being created.

• Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (affiliated with The Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS) at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) ^[34]

• Bioengineering (affiliated with NYU Courant Institute, NYU College of Arts and Science, NYU Center for Neural Science, NYU Colleges of Dentistry, NYU Colleges of Nursing, and NYU School of Medicine.)^[35]

Strategic Plan

NYU-Poly aims to grow enrollment to 6000 students by 2015.^[36] The student body will exemplify a higher academic profile. NYU-Poly will have significant growth in faculty numbers, with a target of at least 100 full-time faculty hires over the next five years. Most of the new faculty members will have joint appointment with other schools of NYU. NYU-Poly currently ranks #33 in the nation by average SAT score( 3rd among all schools of NYU ).^[37] Undergraduate applications to Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) keeps increasing every year.^[38]

Campuses

NYU-Poly has its main campus in Downtown Brooklyn and is close to transportation routes and easily accessible from all parts of New York City and Long Island. In addition to its main address at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, the institute offers programs at other sites throughout the region, including Long Island, Westchester, and Manhattan, as well as several programs in Israel, China and the Middle East.^[9][39] NYU-Poly is an integral part of NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU Shanghai and the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in downtown Brooklyn.^[40]

Existing campuses

Brooklyn Campus

The Institute played a leadership role in bringing about MetroTech Center, one of the largest urban university-corporate parks in the world and the largest in the United States. Today, the 16-acre (65,000 m²), $1 billion complex is home to the Institute's main campus and several technology-dependent companies, including Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), New York City Police Department's 911 Center, New York City Fire Department Headquarters and the U.S. technology and operations functions of JPMorgan Chase. In 1998, a Marriott Hotel was built adjacent to MetroTech. MetroTech has proven to be a case study in effective university, corporate, government and private-developer cooperation. It has resulted in renewing an area that once was characterized more by urban decay.

Wunsch Building houses the school's undergraduate admissions offices and is used to host many social, cultural, and academic events for the school and community.^[41] The building dates back to 1847 and was the first independent black church in Brooklyn. It was also a stop on the Underground Railroad and has been designated a historic landmark since November 24, 1981.^[42]

The Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology, opened in 1990 in a new building, is Polytechnic's information hub, with many of its offerings accessible online.

The Othmer Residence Hall is a 18-story building housing over 400 students and was opened in 2002, and currently houses freshmen and sophomores. It is named after Donald Othmer, a past chemical engineering professor at the Institute, and his wife, Mildred Othmer.

The Clark Residence, which opened in September 2010, offers housing to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.

Long Island Campus

The Long Island Graduate Center was opened in 1961. Recently, It was closed and classes were moved to a small portion of the Melville Corporate Center. Graduate programs were expanded to include Electrophysics, Systems Engineering, Telecommunication Networks and Wireless Innovation.

Westchester Campus

Established in the 1980s, in the Hudson Valley, NYU-Poly's Westchester campus offers several graduate programs and operates similarly to the Long Island Campus.

Manhattan Site

Located in Manhattan, this site offers degree programs in Financial Engineering, Management of Technology, Information Management and Accelerated Management of Technology. The Manhattan Graduate Center offers a facility for working professionals.

Located at 2 Broadway in downtown Manhattan. This site offers NYU Poly Exec 21 Construction Management certificate.

Israel Campus

Located in Rishon LeZion in the College of Management. This campus offers Master of Science in Management and Master of Science in Organizational Behaviour degrees.

New York University Abu Dhabi

In October 2007, New York University announced its intention to open a complete branch campus in Abu Dhabi, financed by the Abu Dhabi government.^[43] The Abu Dhabi campus was planned by New York University, and the funding mainly came from the Government of the United Arab Emirates.^[44] It was first opened in 2008 on a temporary site in downtown Abu Dhabi, and held various public events such as academic conferences, workshops, and performances.^[45] It accepted its first class of 150 students in September 2010.^[44] As of 2010 the college offered liberal arts and science subjects, including engineering.^[46] New York University plans to move the Abu Dhabi campus to a new site by 2014, and plans to increase the number of students at the campus to two thousand.^[44] The university plans to open a graduate school and to make the school a center for research.^[46] The new campus will be in the Marina district of Saadiyat Island, and is designed by Rafael Viñoly, an Uruguayan architect.^[47]

NYU-Poly is integrally connected to NYU Abu Dhabi like other schools of NYU and is responsible for NYU Abu Dhabi's engineering programs.

Alfred Bloom, former president of Swarthmore College, was appointed to lead NYU Abu Dhabi as vice chancellor in September 2008. ^[48]

Polytechnic Tower at Brooklyn Campus

It has been confirmed that NYU-Poly will build a massive tower on Jacobs Administration and Civil Engineering building site.^[49] The developer will be selected in Spring 2013.^[50]

Center for Urban Science and Progress at Brooklyn Campus

The Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) is a degree-granting technology and research institute, that will be located in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. The 459,000-square-foot building is located on NYU's Brooklyn campus. It will be a research facility at Polytechnic Institute of New York University mainly focusing on urban engineering, civil engineering, computer science, and electrical engineering.^[51] It will open by September 2013, and will be located in the MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn. NYU hopes the new center will help to encourage collaboration between experts in different fields, allowing them to solve problems that they would be unable to solve alone.

Bioengineering Institute

New York University is creating an innovative Institute for Bioengineering that will cross multiple disciplines and schools of the university. It is intended to foster close collaboration particularly among the Polytechnic Institute (NYU-Poly), Courant Institute, Faculty of Arts and Science, Center for Neural Science, Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, as well as the School of Medicine. The combined expertise and talent available in these units is already considerable. Part of the Institute’s new activities will occur on the Campus of NYU-Poly in Brooklyn while the part particularly devoted to applied biomedical research and development will be housed in a new building under construction in Manhattan near the Medical School, cohabiting with the College of Dentistry and Nursing. The 11-story, state-of-the-art facility, planned for 433 First Ave., will be 170,000-square-feet large and 183-feet high. The previous building on the site, which was used for administrative and academic office for the school’s College of Dentistry, was demolished in September. Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates is designing the exterior, while EYP Architecture & Engineering is working on the interior design. It is slated to open in 2015. The new building will cost $140 million. The area is already home to a cluster of health-related University programs, including the NYU College of Dentistry and the NYU School of Medicine.

New York University Shanghai

NYU Shanghai (NYU-SH) is the latest of NYU's new base campuses, and will have its first class in 2013. The NYU Shanghai curriculum will include a variety of majors in the Life and Behavioral Sciences (such as Neural Science), the Physical Sciences (such as Chemistry and Physics), Social Sciences (including Business and Finance), Mathematical and Engineering Sciences (including Computer Science and Electrical Engineering), and the Humanities. NYU-Poly will be integrally connected like other schools of NYU and will be responsible for NYU Shanghai's engineering programs. As members of NYU's global network, students at NYU Shanghai will be expected to spend at least one semester and up to three semesters pursuing their studies at the other NYU global academic centers. In this way students will have the opportunity to pursue major-specific courses in New York or Abu Dhabi with professors from those campuses. In addition, the study-away sites will offer special opportunities for a semester abroad.

History

NYU-Poly was formerly Polytechnic University and it is currently an interim entity that maintains a formal affiliation with NYU, allowing NYU to complete the transition for Poly to become the School of Engineering and Technology within NYU (see NYU Affiliation below).^[52][53]

Timeline

The official timeline for the Institute is maintained on Poly at a Glance: the Poly Timeline.^[54]

• A group of Brooklyn businessmen drew up a charter on May 17, 1853, to establish a school for young men.
• In 1854, the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute was chartered and moved into its first home at 99 Livingston Street.
• In 1855, the school opened its doors September 10 to 265 young men, ages nine to 17. From 1889 to 1973 it was known as "Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn" (but often referred to as "PIB" or "Brooklyn Poly").
• Baccalaureate degrees were conferred for the first time in 1871.
• Postgraduate programs began in 1901.
• In 1917, the preparatory program was separated from Institute and renamed the Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School, or Poly Prep for short. It is located in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn.

  

• First doctoral degree awarded in 1921.
• Polymer Research Institute established in 1942.
• Microwave Research Institute established in 1945.
• In 1957, Poly moved to its present location (333 Jay Street, the former site of the American Safety Razor factory), and became a co-educational institution.
• In 1973, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn acquired the faculty and programs of New York University’s School of Engineering and Science to form Polytechnic Institute of New York after NYU was forced to sell the University Heights campus (where the engineering school was situated) because of financial hardships.
• Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) established in 1983.
• In 1985, the school gained university status and its name was changed to Polytechnic University.
• In 2008, Polytechnic changed its name to Polytechnic Institute of New York University when it became affiliated with NYU, in order to align itself to become the School of Engineering and Technology within NYU.

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Name

Polytechnic Institute of NYU has carried a number of different names.^[55]

• 1854: Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (founding name)
• 1889: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (separated from preparatory program)
• 1973: Polytechnic Institute of New York (merged with New York University School of Engineering and Science)
• 1985: Polytechnic University (acquired university status)
• 2008: Polytechnic Institute of New York University (officially affiliated with New York University)

New York University affiliation

In 1973, New York University’s School of Engineering and Science was merged into the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn to form the Polytechnic Institute of New York.^[56] The 2008 affiliation between Poly and NYU re-established a formal relationship between New York University and the former Polytechnic Institute of New York after nearly 35 years of separation.^[57] The Institute is now an interim entity while it aligns itself to become NYU's dedicated resource for applied sciences and engineering.^[58]

On August 7, 2007, Polytechnic and New York University (NYU) announced that the two institutions were engaged in merger discussions.^[59][60] In October 2007, NYU’s and Polytechnic's Boards of Trustees both approved continuation of talks on a merger of NYU and Polytechnic. Both institutions decided to continue drafting a Definitive Agreement to more fully define the relationship between the universities.^[61][62]

On March 6, 2008, Polytechnic’s Board of Trustees voted to approve the "Definitive Agreement" to affiliate with New York University, with the goal that Polytechnic would become NYU's engineering, applied science, and technology school. On June 24, 2008, the New York State Regents approved an affiliation between Polytechnic and NYU by a change of charter which made NYU the sole member of the Polytechnic, effective July 1, 2008.^[61][61][63]

Consolidation into New York University

It has been confirmed by the school authorities that the interim Polytechnic Institute of NYU is on the path to being completely consolidated into NYU as its School of Engineering and Technology by 2013, similar to that of NYU College of Arts and Sciences, Stern School of Business, Tisch School of the Arts, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and other NYU schools.^[64]

Presidents of Polytechnic

Presidents of Polytechnic Institute and Deans of Engineering at NYU

Admissions and enrollment

Polytechnic Institute of New York University offers Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, Master of Engineering, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in a wide range of majors and programs. More than 89% of undergraduate students receive job offers within 6 months of graduation. NYU Poly's current student-to-faculty ratio is 13-to-1.^[65]

Admission to Polytechnic Institute of New York University is highly competitive and is offered only to students who are on the top 25% of their high school classes with high SAT or ACT scores and at least 3.3 (B+) GPA (grade point average).^[66] Admission to Polytechnic Institute of New York University is considered more selective by U.S. News & World Report^[67] and applicants will need:

• Competitive SAT or ACT scores
• At least 3.3(B+) GPA (grade point average)^[66]
• 4 years of Science (including chemistry and physics)
• 4 years of Mathematics (algebra through pre-calculus minimum)
• 4 years of English
• An exceptional personal essay
• 2 letters of recommendation^[68]

Polytechnic Institute of New York University has an average SAT Critical Reading and Math score (combined) of 1320^[4]

Polytechnic Institute of New York University's average Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) quantitative score is 763^[69]

Polytechnic Institute of New York University's average high school GPA is 3.5^[70]

Polytechnic Institute of New York University's acceptance rate is 68% ^[71]

Polytechnic Institute of New York University's graduate engineering acceptance rate is 43%^[72]

At least a 2.5 (3.0 for all undergraduate engineering programs) GPA (grade point average) and 24 credits are required to be considered for undergraduate transfer admission.^[73]

At least a 3.0 undergraduate GPA (grade point average) is required to be considered for graduate admission.^[74]

Among NYU-Poly's top feeder schools are prestigious high schools including Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn Technical High School, Bronx High School of Science, and several top private schools in the northeast.

NYU-Poly is ranked #4 for diversity by U.S. News & World Report.^[75]

NYU-Poly has strong enrollments from South Asia^[76]

Rankings

In 2012, National Broadcasting Company (NBC) listed NYU-Poly among the world’s top universities and institutions for engineering^[77]

NYU-Poly ranks #40 by electrical engineering bachelor's degree awarded in the United States and ranks #44 by computer engineering bacelor's degree awarded in the United States^[78]

NYU-Poly ranks #13 in the United States for engineering master’s degrees awarded^[78] and ranks #21 for graduate engineering enrollment in the United States^[78]

In 2012, NYU-Poly was ranked #101 for Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.^[79]

In 2012, NYU-Poly ranked 34th on “The World's Best Engineering Schools” list by Business Insider^[80]

Polytechnic Institute of New York University's graduate engineering program was ranked #66 in its list of top 198 graduate engineering schools by U.S. News.^[72]

QS World University Rankings ranked NYU-Poly 184 out of 700 top Engineering & Technology universities in the world in 2012^[81]

The Princeton Review ranks NYU-Poly among the best northeastern engineering colleges along with Massachusetts Institute of Technology ^[70]

The Princeton Review ranks NYU-Poly's undergraduate electrical engineering program 12th in the nation ^[82]

The Princeton Review ranks NYU-Poly's graduate electrical engineering program 13th in the nation.^[83]

U.S. News ranked NYU-Poly's electrical engineering program #32 in the world^[84]

U.S. News ranked NYU-Poly's graduate computer engineering program #34 in the United States of America^[85][86]

NYU-Poly is ranked #51 in the world for Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering & Manufacturing Engineering^[87]

NYU-Poly is ranked #101 in the world for chemical engineering^[87]

NYU-Poly's Financial Engineering Program is ranked #17 in the United States of America^[88]

The 2011 Best Engineering Colleges By Salary Potential ranked The Polytechnic Institute of NYU #4 in the nation, determined by annual pay of bachelors graduates.^[89]

AOL ranks NYU-Poly #8 among The Colleges That Guarantee the Highest Salaries^[90]

CNBC ranks NYU-Poly 15th among Colleges That Bring the Highest Paycheck^[91]

A recent ranking compiled by Forbes.com recognizing the “Top Colleges for Getting Rich” rated NYU-Poly ninth in the nation.^[92]

One of the electrical engineering research centers of the NYU-Poly, the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) ranks #1 among technology research centers in funding and #2 in the number of industry participants according to the United States National Science Foundation.^[93]

The Princeton Review's 2012 ranked NYU (Polytechnic Institute and Tisch School of Arts) among the top undergraduate and graduate schools for video game design.^[94]

NYU-Poly is ranked as one of the top 10 Innovative Schools in the United States of America by Computerworld^[95]

NYU-Poly is ranked as one of the top 56 Information Technology (IT) schools in the United States of America by Computerworld^[96]

U.S. News ranks NYU-Poly's online graduate engineering program #3 in the United States of America for Student Services and Technology^[97]

U.S. News ranks NYU-Poly's online graduate engineering program #5 in the United States of America for Student Engagement and Accreditation^[98]

Sloan-C Named NYU-Poly’s Cyber Security Virtual Master’s Program as the Nation’s ‘Outstanding Online Program’^[99]

Forbes Editors Named NYU-Poly Among Best Colleges for Women and Minorities in Science, Tech, Engineering and Math^[100]

Forbes Ranks NYU-Poly in Top Ten for Diversity^[101]

In the 2011 "U.S. News & World Report", The Polytechnic Institute of NYU tied for fourth among all national schools in the ethnic and racial diversity of its undergraduate student body, tied for seventh in the proportion of international undergraduate students, and it ranked 22nd in economic diversity.^[102]

The 2011–2012 PayScale College Salary report ranked NYU-Poly top eight among all four-year colleges in the nation by starting salary potential and mid-career salaries.^[103]

The 2011 Best Engineering Colleges By Salary Potential ranked The Polytechnic Institute of NYU #4 in the nation, determined by annual pay of bachelors graduates.^[89]

The 2009 Best Engineering Colleges By Salary Potential ranked the school among the top 10 in the nation for annual pay of bachelors graduates.^[104][105]

Academics

Accreditation

All undergraduate and graduate programs at Polytechnic are accredited by the Middle States Association. Undergraduate chemistry students have the option to pursue a degree approved by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE), Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Society for Metals, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Physical Society (APS) and the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) have recognized the institute's undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, computer science and physics, chemistry and mathematics.

Academic labs

• Applied Dynamics and Optimization Lab
• Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory
• Computational Mechanics Laboratory
• Dynamical Systems Laboratory
• Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (formerly Integrated Digital Media Institute)
• Internet Security and Information Systems Lab
• Wireless Implementation Testbed Laboratory
• Bio-interfacial Engineering and Diagnostics Lab
• Control and Telecommmunications Research Laboratory
• High-Speed Networking Lab
• Integrated Information Systems Laboratory
• MicroParticle PhotoPhysics Laboratory for BioPhotonics
• Organic Electronics Laboratory
• Power and Power Electronics Engineering Laboratory
• Video Lab
• Mijović Research Group Lab
• CITE Game Innovation Lab
• Protein Engineering and Molecular Design Laboratory
• Translational Neuroengineering(associated with the NYU Center for Neural Science and the NYU Langone Medical Center)^[106]
• Institute for Engineered Interfaces (IEI) Laboratories: under construction ^[107]

Research Centers at Polytechnic

Research at Polytechnic is conducted either through academic departments or through one of many interdisciplinary research centers listed below^[108]:

• Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT)
• Center for Biocatalysis & Bioprocessing of Macromolecules
• Center for Drug Delivery Research (CDDR)
• Center for Finance and Technology (CFT)
• Center for Technology in Supply Chains and Merchandising (CTSCM)
• Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing (IMAS)
• Institute for Technology and Enterprise (ITE)
• Othmer Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies
• Polymer Research Institute (PRI) (first academic research facility in the United States for the study of polymers. The American Chemical Society designated the Polymer Research Institute as a National Historic Chemical Landmark on September 3, 2003.^[109])
• Transportation Research Institute (TRI)
• Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center (UITSC)
• Urban Security Initiative
• Urban Utility Center
• Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT)
• CRISSP (Cyber-Security)^[110]
• Weber Research Institute (played a key role in WWII in the development of electromagnetic and microwave defense and communication systems)^[111]
• NYU WIRELESS (The world’s first research center combining Wireless, Computing, and Medical Applications)^[112]
• Research Center for Risk Engineering: under construction ^[113] Head of the department of Finance and Risk Engineering has been chosen as its director^[114]
• Materials Research Science and Engineering Center( includes Departments of Chemistry and Physics, the Courant Institute of Mathematics, the Biomimetics and Biomaterials program in the NYU Dental School, NYU Polytechnic Institute and Princeton University among others^[115] )
• Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center

Research at Polytechnic

Founded in 1854, Polytechnic is the second-oldest school of engineering in the English-speaking world. For more than two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena—from transportation and telecommunications to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace. Polytechnic was appointed as a Center of Excellence by United States Department of Defense in the fields of "Electrical Engineering", "Polymer Engineering", "Advanced Materials", "Aerospace Systems", "Communication", "Design, Robotics, and Automation", "Energy Conversion","Power System Management and Control", "Wireless Engineering" and "Telecommunications". This appointment is based on national standing based on research achievements and invested funding in the mentioned topics. NYU-Poly faculty and students are also involved in other areas of research, including cardiovascular health, epilepsy, blindness and staph infection. NYU-Poly is a National Security Agency Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, Information Assurance Education and a Center of Excellence in Research.^[116][117] Polytechnic is the first school in New York City to receive the designation.^[116] A new 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m²) research center for wireless technologies, known as NYU Wireless, is scheduled to open in winter 2012.^[118]

NYU-Poly's NSF-sponsored Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT), ranks #1 among technology research centers in funding and #2 in the number of industry participants according to the United States National Science Foundation.^[93]

Weber Research Institute played a key role in WWII in the development of electromagnetic and microwave defense and communication systems.

NYU-Poly alumnus Jasper Kane had a central role in moving antibiotics like penicillin from the laboratory table into industrial production in World War II.^[119]

NYU has the fastest supercomputer in New York City and the 117th fastest supercomputer in the world^[120]

In 2010, a NYU-Poly undergraduate senior design project named Concept Zero’s fuel-efficient car placed fourth among the 10 UrbanConcept contenders (40 Prototype cars made up the rest of the 50 cars that participated) at Shell Eco-marathon in Houston, Texas, March 27 and 28.^[121]

In 2011, a NYU-Poly undergraduate senior design project placed first in the Advanced Class category at the SAE Aero Design West Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. Previous teams from NYU-Poly scored second-place finishes in 2009 and 2010.^{[122] [123]}

In 2012, a team of engineering students at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) won the Judges Innovation Design Award in a NASA contest that challenges college teams to build an efficient digging machine for the moon.^[40]

NYU ranks #1 among Universities That Turn Research Into Revenue according to Forbes^[124]

In 2011, NYU-Poly Researchers uncovered privacy flaws in internet-based phone systems that can reveal users’ identities, locations and digital files^[125][126]

In 2012, NYU-Poly researchers built robotic super fish to save other fish from danger ^[127]

In 2012, NYU-Poly researchers set record for detecting smallest virus, opening new possibilities for early disease detection^[128]

In 2010, NYU-Poly received a $2.85 million award from the National Science Foundation to educate scientists and engineers to address the increasingly complex issues surrounding information security and privacy.^[129]

In 2012, NYU-Poly received a $2 million grant to develop promising new spectrum and technology for 5G cellular networks.^[130]

In 2012, NYU-Poly(Abu Dhabi) researchers found electricity in biological clock.^[131]

Advanced Learning through Integrated Visual Environments – ALIVE is a project that is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and led by NYU-Poly, in partnership with FDNY, the Chicago Fire Department (CFD), and the fire departments of Bloomington, Eden Prairie, and Eagan, MN.ALIVE features short, interactive training modules that incorporate simulations and game techniques. Firefighters learn more than how to fight a fire: They learn the science behind the fires. They test their proficiency frequently, and can repeat each module until they absorb it. With its capabilities and features, the research collaborators believe that ALIVE is a unique, interactive online education offering for firefighters.^[132]

Recently, DHS’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program awarded another grant to NYU-Poly to continue its fire research and to develop an ALIVE module designed to train the nationwide firefighting community on fire dynamics. In collaboration with NIST, Underwriters Laboratories (UL), and the fire departments of New York, Chicago and Bloomington, the research team will conduct small-scale burn tests and laboratory experiments to generate the necessary data, video and images.^[133]

NYU-Poly’s research collaboration with FDNY on high-rise fires dates to the 1970s, when researchers conducted burn tests in a 22-story office building at 30 Church Street in Manhattan and demonstrated the strategy of stairwell pressurization for high-rise fires. Since then, after a period that saw little emphasis on fire research, the partners expanded their research on fire dynamics in 2007, and in 2008, they dramatically demonstrated the efficacy of their research outcomes during a week of controlled high-rise fires on Governors Island. Video footage from that and other experiments are incorporated into ALIVE training.^[134]

Brooklyn Atlantis is a custom-built, remote-controlled, mobile robotic vessel made at NYU-Poly that will monitor the underwater environment in the Gowanus Canal. Equipped with two cameras—one at the water’s surface and one below—as well as sensors to check water temperature, conductivity, pH and oxygen levels, the 60-pound vehicle has onboard broadband service to transmit real-time findings to the project’s website every 30 seconds. Brooklyn Atlantis is funded by a three-year, $560,000 grant from the National Science Foundation through its Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation program.^[135]

Student life

NYU-Poly has numerous student organizations (over 40^[136]) including:

Fraternities

Alpha Phi Omega

A co-ed service fraternity organized to provide community service, leadership development, and social opportunities for college students.

Lambda Chi Alpha

A national social fraternity seeks to promote higher education by providing opportunities for academic achievement and leadership. Nu Alpha Phi

An Asian-interest social fraternity founded in 1994. Activities include the improvement of the surrounding environment through community service and other philanthropic activities. Past activities have included charity walks, donation drives, voter registration, and soup kitchens.

Omega Phi Alpha

A local, independent, co-ed social fraternity founded in 1986. They are not affiliated with the Omega Phi Alpha national service sorority. They were originally based on the Farmingdale, Long Island Campus. They moved to Brooklyn when the Long Island campus closed and the student body integrated with the main Brooklyn Campus.

Interest groups

PolyBots

The mission of the PolyBOTS^[137] is to provide an interdisciplinary environment allowing for the engineering and construction of original robotic and mechanical devices. The PolyBOTS present the means by which students have the ability to learn and excel in multiple technical and engineering fields through hands-on experience.(source) Since its start in 2001, the organization has volunteered to FIRST robotics and FIRST Lego League. They have hosted several workshops for high school students, and have earned several awards by the Institute and FIRST.

Polytechnic Anime Society

The Polytechnic Anime Society^[138] consists of students who enjoy gaming, anime, manga, and other aspects of both popular culture and Japanese culture. Besides hosting weekly anime showings and gaming sessions in the university, PAS also hosts and participates in various outside events. Members can often be found in costume attending conventions and parades. They have attended the annual Otakon. In addition, PAS notably hosts the annual SpringFest, a gaming, anime, and pop culture-oriented convention open to everyone. Average attendance per year is usually around 800-1000 people, with tournaments, panels, and anime showings running throughout the day.

Engineers Without Borders (EWB)

Engineers Without Borders^[139] was founded in the spring of 2008, to allow students to apply their technical skills to benefit developing communities around the world. Current EWB projects include providing sustainable, scalable engineering solutions for municipal and civic infrastructures in El Salvador^[140] and the sustainable water and sanitation in the Dominican Republic.^[141]

U.S. Air Force ROTC

All NYU Polytechnic and affiliated students may participate in the U.S. Air Force ROTC program headquartered at Manhattan College;^[142] Detachment 560 provide training to students from over 30 schools.^[143]

U.S. Army ROTC

All NYU Polytechnic and affiliated students may participate in the U.S. Army ROTC program^[142] through NYC Army ROTC, headquartered at Fordham University.^[144]

Athletics

Polytechnic is the home of the Fighting Blue Jays^[145] and offers its students a wide array of sports teams. The Blue Jays compete in NCAA Division III Championships in Men's and Women's Soccer, Women's Volleyball, Women's Lacrosse, Men's Track, Men's and Women's Basketball, Softball, and Baseball.

NYU Poly has advanced its athletics program in the last few years. They have constructed a new gym, the Jacobs Gymnasium, located on the Brooklyn campus.

NYU Poly has a long athletic history. For instance, NYU Poly and Pratt Institute’s basketball teams have battled it out in some of the world's most famous arenas, including the old Madison Square Garden, the Brooklyn Armory, and the Meadowlands since 1904. In Fall 2009 and Fall 2010 the women's volleyball team won their conference. In spring 2010 the women's softball team also won their conference and got an NCAA bid to regionals in Ithaca. The team earned the school's first ever NCAA tournament win.

Notable faculty

• Paul Peter Ewald – Inventor of X-ray diffraction method for determination of molecular structure; Physics Department chair until 1957 (while Francis Crick was a student).
• David and Gregory Chudnovsky – famous mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989. They now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing (IMAS) at Polytechnic
• Gordon Gould – Former Polytechnic Professor who was the inventor of the laser
• David Harker – American physicist, X-ray crystallographer, and discoverer of the Donnay-Harker law and Harker-Kasper inequalities.
• Maurice Karnaugh – A inventor of Karnaugh Maps, or K-Maps, while at Bell Labs. He was a professor at the Westchester campus from 1980–1999 and is now retired
• Paul Levinson – author of The Plot To Save Socrates, media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor and other TV and radio. He was Visiting Professor at the Philosophy and Technology Study Center at Polytechnic, 1987–1988.
• Rudolph Marcus – Former Polytechnic Professor awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Herman F. Mark – Founder of the Polymer Research Institute
• Donald Othmer – Co-Author, Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, inventor of the Othmer Still (a laboratory device for vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements)
• Leonard Peikoff – Former Philosophy Professor, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
• Athanasios Papoulis – Pioneer in the field of stochastic processes.
• Murray Rothbard – Former economics professor, key figure in libertarian movement
• Ernst Weber – Founder of the Microwave Research Institute; first IEEE President
• Parke Kolbe
• Francis Crick – Co-discoverer of DNA structure; awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Epistemologist author of The Black Swan; works in the risk engineering department.
• Torsten Suel – Pioneer of Web Search Engine.
• Hans Reissner – German aeronautical engineer.
• R. M. Foster – Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines.
• Paul M. Doty – emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry who specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules and has been strongly involved in peace and security policy issues.
• Frederick B. Llewellyn – a American electrical engineer.
• James Tenney – American composer and influential music theorist.
• Jack Keil Wolf – a American researcher in information theory and coding theory.
• Louis Zukofsky – one of the most important second-generation American modernist poets.
• Eugene D. Genovese – American historian of the American South and American slavery.
• Charles William Hanko – American historian and politician.
• S. L. Greitzer – American mathematician, the founding chairman of the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad, and the publisher of the precollege mathematics journal Arbelos.
• Joseph Wood Krutch – American writer, critic, and naturalist.
• R. Luke DuBois – American composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.
• Elliott Waters Montroll – American scientist and mathematician.
• Joshua W. Sill – Professor of Mathematics who attended Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Later became the youngest General in the Civil War. Fort Sill is named after him.
• Edward Kimbark – power engineer.
• Dan Bailey – fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer and staunch Western conservationist.
• Morgan Chu – Intellectual property attorney, is one of the first Asian Americans to lead a major U.S. law firm.
• Ta-You Wu – Nuclear physicist and President of Academia Sinica.
• Nathan Marcuvitz – Electrical engineering pioneer.
• Erich E. Kunhardt
• Samuel Morse – co-inventor of the Morse code, contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
• Jerry MacArthur Hultin
• Katherine Isbister
• Leopold B. Felsen
• K. R. Sreenivasan
• Tsuneo Nakahara
• Dante C. Youla – The Youla–Kucera parametrization in control theory is named after him.
• Cathleen Synge Morawetz
• Myles Jackson
• Michael Shelley (mathematician) – Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Dennis Shasha
• Herbert Freeman
• J. H. Mulligan. Jr – IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
• John R. Ragazzini
• Charles Camarda
• Steven E. Koonin- Director of NYU-Polytechnic's Center for Urban Science and Progress
• Sunil Kumar- Dean of Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi.Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, and a visiting scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.^[146]
• John G. Truxal- professor and former chairman of the electrical engineering department
• Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport- Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industrial/University Collaborative Research Center for Wireless Internet Communications and Advanced Technology (WICAT), a national research center that involves 5 major universities and is headquartered at NYU-Poly. 2012 recipient of the William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society^[147]
• Hans Mark
• David Miller (Canadian politician)
• Leonard Bergstein- invented the original zoom lens, and patented different variations on it. This single invention has revolutionized photography and film forever, now zoom lenses are standard on almost every camera made worldwide.^[148]
• Ju Chin Chu - Member of Academia Sinica. Won Noble Prize in physics.^[149]
• Isadore Fankuchen - Pioneer of X-ray diffraction crystallography; determined (with Bernal) the structure of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus; predicted the "Fankuchen effect in curved crystals"^[150]
• Eli Pearce- President, American Chemical Society^[151]
• Phil Maymin - Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering and Libertarian Party House candidate in Connecticut
• Joel Snyder - IEEE President 2001, Founder of Snyder Associates, Former Polytechnic Senior Industry Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering^[152]
• Barouh Berkovits - invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker^[153]
• Amir Pnueli- Israel Prize and Turing Award winner
• Krishna Palem- W. Wallace McDowell Award winner
• Jerome Swartz- invented hand-held barcode laser scanner and hand-held, scanner-integrated wireless computer and the first spread spectrum wireless LAN (WiFi)^[154]
• Andrew Kalotay
• George Bugliarello- Chairman of the Board of Science and Technology for International Development (BOSTID) of the National Academy of Sciences. Chairman of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee. Chair of the National Academy of Engineering Council’s International Affairs Committee.
• Richard Elliot Wener- Fulbright Fellow at the Vienna University of Technology^[155]

Notable alumni

Polytechnic Institute of New York University's more than 44,000 alumni^[156] include business leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, several Nobel Prize winners, Wolf Prize winners and Israel Prize winners. As of 2012, NYU-Poly has more than 40,000 living alumni throughout the United States and in 55 countries around the world.^[157]

Many former and current leaders of Fortune 500 companies and Fortune Global 500 companies are NYU-Poly alumni, including Fred Amoroso(Chairman)Yahoo!, (President and CEO) Rovi Corporation, Israel Izzy Borovich(Chairman)El Al Israel Airlines Ltd.,^[158] John Elmer McKeen(President)Pfizer,^[159] Tsuneo Nakahara (Vice- President)Sumitomo Group,^[160] Leon Awerbuch(Vice-President)Bechtel,^[161] Peter Rust(President)Consolidated Edison,^[162] Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.(President)General Motors,^[163] Herbert L. Henkel(Chairman and Chief Executive Officer) Ingersoll-Rand,^[164] Jean-Claude Sureau(President and CEO )Radiant Systems,^[165] John M. Trani (President and CEO )Stanley Works(Vice- President)General Electric,^[166] Virginia P. Ruesterholz(President)Verizon,^[167] Arthur Martinez(CEO)Sears.,^[168] William C. W. Mow(Chairman and CEO)Bugle Boy.,^[169] Robert Prieto((Vice President)Fluor Corporation,^[170](Chairman) Parsons Brinckerhoff^[171]), Charlie Hinkaty(Vice President)Citibank,^[172] Frank Robert Azzi(Vice-president)Agilent Technologies.,^[173] William L. Friend(Vice President)Bechtel,^[174] Edward T. Wolynic(Vice President) Engelhard,^[175] Ralph C. Alexander(Chairman )Riverstone Holdings,^[176] Curtis Brunson (Vice President) L-3 Communications,^[177] Craig G. Matthews(Vice Chairman)Keyspan,^[178]Mark Ronald(President and CEO)BAE Systems, James M. Smith,(Chairman, President & CEO)EDO Corporation,^[179] Robert J. Stevens(Chairman and Chief Executive Officer)Lockheed Martin, Ursula Burns(Chairman and CEO) Xerox,Jason Hsuan(Chairman and CEO)TPV Technology,^[180] Stewart G. Nagler(vice chairman and CFO, MetLife^[181]), Steven Vitale(Vice President and Chief Engineer at National Grid^[182]), Robert D. Dalziel(President at AT&T^[183]), Katherine Boden(Vice President at Consolidated Edison^[184]), Robert J. Giorgio(President at CDI Corporation^[185]), John Dionisio(Chairman and CEO)AECOM, Mamadou Ndiaye(country general manager at IBM^[186]), Charles R. Kalmanek (Vice President at AT&T^[187] ), Zhi Zhong Qiu (Director, Suntech Power^[188]), John W. Murphy (Chairman and CEO, Atlantic Management Company^[189]), Cliff Friedman( Vice President at Universal Studios, Vice President at NBC^[190]), John Catsimatidis(chairman and CEO of the Red Apple Group subsidiary United Refining Company.)

More than 200 Polytechnic graduates are CEOs as of 2009.^[191] Top executives and engineers from all of the Fortune 500 companies and 499 of the Fortune Global 500 companies have been Polytechnic alumni as of 2012.^[192]

Current and former presidents of major professional societies, including the American Chemical Society, American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), are alumni. Peter Staeker, the current Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) president-elect, is an NYU-Poly alumnus.^[193] Andrew Herrmann, the current president of the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) is an NYU-Poly alumnus.^[194] Former alumni presidents include Joel Snyder (IEEE President 2001, Founder of Snyder Associates),^[152] Eli Pearce (President, American Chemical Society)^[151]

Founders of companies such as IBM, Jacobs Engineering, Fairchild Semiconductor, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Symbol Technologies, Burndy, NetJets, Sasken Communication Technologies, Religare, EDO Corporation, Tellabs, Haskins and Sells, H&Q Asia Pacific,Twitter,Red Apple Group and Berkeley Models are Polytechnic alumni.

Several engineers who graduated from NYU-Poly contributed to USA's infrastructure. These include James Wood((fabricated the steel cables for the Brooklyn Bridge. Also invented internal combustion engine for Submarine),^[195][196] Henry Goldmark(co-engineered the development of the Panama Canal lock system),^[197] Konstantinos "Gus" Maimis (project executive for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum)^[198] Bancroft Gherardi, Jr.(developed the early telephone systems in the United States)

Several NYU-Poly graduates have played a part in the U.S. space program: Jay Greene(former Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center), Charles Camarda(NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery), Paolo A. Nespoli(Italian astronaut, mission specialist at STS-120 Space Shuttle mission), Thomas J. Kelly (aerospace engineer)(scientist, father of lunar module)

Political figures who graduated from NYU-Poly included Gennaro A. Jerry Marino(former Mayor of Kutztown)^[199] , Chi Mui(First Asian-American Mayor of San Gabriel, CA.),^[200] Sang Whang(Korean American community leader and politician in Florida), Frank Padavan(Republican New York state senator), Carl Gatto(Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives), Franklin Bartlett(U.S. Representative from New York.), Ephraim Katzir(fourth President of Israel, Chief scientist of the Israel Defense Department. Set up the Weizmann Institute with NYU-Poly's help^[201][201]), George W. Melville(Engineer in Chief of the Navy), Robert Michael White(military aircraft test pilot and a major general in the United States Air Force.^[202][203] White broke a number of records with the North American X-15 experimental aircraft during the 1960s, and supervised the design and development of several modern military aircraft.),Admiral Charles F. Stokes(Dr. Charles Stokes was a member of the first Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons, Surgeon General of the United States Navy, and President Theodore Roosevelt's personal physician^[204]), Don Torrieri(research engineer and Fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory.), Steve Wallach(consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) program at Los Alamos National Laboratory.), DARPA director Jack Ruina

Many Polytechnic people have made important inventions, including Paul Peter Ewald(inventor of X-ray diffraction method), Gordon Gould(inventor of the laser), Leonard Bergstein(invented Camera Zoom Lens)^[148] , Ernst Weber(Invented Microwave), Mario Cardullo(invented Radio-frequency identification (RFID)),^[205] Maurice Karnaugh(inventor of Karnaugh Maps, or K-Maps), Francis Crick(Co-discoverer of DNA structure), Samuel Morse(co-inventor of the Morse code), William B. Kouwenhoven (inventor closed-chest cardiac defibrillator), Buddy D. Ratner (one of the founding fathers of modern bioengineering)^[18] , Herman Francis Mark (Father of Modern Polymer Science), Jasper Kane(discovered method to mass produce penicillin),^[206] Gerald Goertzel(creator of the Goertzel algorithm), Jerome Lemelson(contributed to innovations like cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, and camcorders), John Gilbert (inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon),^[207] Joseph Owades(inventor of Lite beer), Rober G. Brown(designed and developed the first telephone system in Paris, France. Among his other innovations were the "French Telephone"),^[208] Bern Dibner(Inventor of the first solderless electrical connector), Avery Fisher(inventor of the first stereo radio-phonograph), Martin Hellman(invented Diffie–Hellman key exchange), David Harker(discoverer of the Donnay-Harker law and Harker-Kasper inequalities), K. Mani Chandy(invented BCMP network), Stephen P. Morse(architect of the Intel 8086 chip), Seymour Shapiro(discovered Phenformin), Pat Villani(creator of FreeDOS operating system), Jacob Bekenstein(contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics. The Bekenstein bound in General Relativity), Lawrence J. Fogel(father of Evolutionary computation and Evolutionary programming), Ali Akansu(contributed to the theory and applications of sub-band and wavelet transforms), Bishnu S. Atal(contributed to linear predictive coding), Norman Gaylord(invented permeable contact lens which allows oxygen to reach the wearer's eye), Erol Gelenbe(invented G-network and Random neural network), David J. Thomson(invented Multitaper), Ronald Silverman(contributed to Ultrasound), Ronald R. Yager (invented ordered weighted averaging aggregation operators and contributed to fuzzy sets), Leopold B. Felsen(fundamental contributions to electromagnetic field analysis), Nathan Marcuvitz(contributed in the fields of microwave and electromagnetic theory), Hung-Chang Lin(holds 61 U.S. patents. Among his inventions is the quasi-complementary (transistor) amplifier circuit,^[209] which has been used in many commercial audio amplifiers. Another of his inventions is the lateral transistor which is used in linear integrated circuits and T2L digital integrated circuits. He also invented the wireless microphone.), Denis Blackmore(physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.), Barouh Berkovits(invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker^[153]), Jerome Swartz(invented hand-held barcode laser scanner and hand-held, scanner-integrated wireless computer and the first spread spectrum wireless LAN (WiFi)^[154]), Richard J. Orford( contributed to the invention of Touch Screen ATM^[210]), Elmer L. Gaden(father of Biomedical Engineering ^[19]),Martin Graham(Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and the designer of the Rice Institute Computer^[211]), Ephraim Katzir(developed a method for binding enzymes, which helped lay the groundwork for what is now called enzyme engineering.), Leonard Greene (invented the Aircraft Stall Warning device, which warns pilots when a deadly aerodynamic stall is imminent.)

Prominent institutions of higher education have been led by NYU-Poly alumni, included Norman Lamm(Former president and current Chancellor of Yeshiva University), Hermann Viets(President, Milwaukee School of Engineering), John P. Schaefer(President, The University of Arizona^[212]), K. Mani Chandy(Deputy chair of engineering and applied sciences at the California Institute of Technology^[213] ), Josef Singer(President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, also founded Technion’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and also won the Israel Prize in 2000 for his lifetime achievement in the field of aeronautical engineering^[214]) , Yehuda (Leo) Levi(Previous Rector at the Jerusalem College of Technology; author of several books on optics, and on science and Judaism.), Eleanor Baum(Cooper Union Engineering School Dean^[215]), John G. Truxal(Dean of engineering and applied sciences at Stony Brook University^[216]), Bruno A. Boley(Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University^[217]), Dean of Engineering at Middle East Technical University^[218] Jack Baskin(Founder of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz^[219]), David J. Palmer(Head of the Department of Engineering at the United States Merchant Marine Academy^[220]), Richard E. Sorensen( Dean of Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech^[220]), Harold S. Goldberg( Associate Dean of Tufts University School of Engineering^[221]), Ephraim Katzir(Set up the Weizmann Institute with NYU-Poly's help^[201])

People related to the film industry who graduated from NYU-Poly included Marvin Davis(chairman of Davis Petroleum and at one time owned 20th Century Fox, the Pebble Beach Corporation, the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Aspen Skiing Company. Former CEO of Paramount Pictures), David Bergstein(American entrepreneur and film producer, chairman of THINKFilm and Capitol Films), Robert H. Lieberman(novelist, film director, and a long-time member of the Physics faculty at Cornell University.)   Edward Everett Horton, a well-known character actor, also attended Brooklyn Poly.

Writers who graduated from NYU-Poly included James Truslow Adams(coined the term "American Dream"), Robert Anton Wilson(American author of 35 influential books), Charles Battell Loomis, Tudor Jenks(American author, poet, artist and editor, as well as a journalist and lawyer.), Hugh Seidman( American poet, who also taught at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, The New School.^[222]), Clayton Hamilton(American drama critic. Professor at Columbia University)

Other notable people include Gertrude B. Elion(1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), Martin Lewis Perl(won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton, also awarded 1982 Wolf Prize in physics), Rudolph A. Marcus(1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry^[223]), Ju Chin Chu(Member of Academia Sinica. Won Noble Prize in physics.^[149]), Francis Crick(Co-discoverer of DNA structure; awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine), Jacob Bekenstein(won Israel Prize in Physics (2005), Wolf Prize in physics (2012), Member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Judea Pearl(2011 winner of the ACM Turing Award), Martin Hellman(In 2011, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.^[224]), Elmer L. Gaden (Russ Prize winner^[19]), Harold S. Goldberg (Gordon Prize winner ,^[225] Clive L. Dym (Gordon Prize winner^[226]), Jerome E. Levy (Gordon Prize winner^[227]), John B. MacChesney(Charles Stark Draper Prize winner), Amir Pnueli(Israel Prize and Turing Award winner), Shmuel Winograd(W. Wallace McDowell Award) winner, Krishna Palem(W. Wallace McDowell Award winner), William B. Kouwenhoven(IEEE Edison Medal) winner, Bancroft Gherardi, Jr.(IEEE Edison Medal) winner, Lloyd Espenschied(IEEE Medal of Honor), William L. "Bill" Effinger, Jr(Founded Berkeley Models. He was elected to the Academy of Model Aeronautics Hall of Fame in 1986.), Leonard Greene(He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He was an American inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many of which are aviation-related)

See also

• List of United States college laboratories conducting basic defense research
• Gee Bee Model R
• List of university and college mergers in the United States
• Research park

References

External links

• Official website
• Official athletics website