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students
application data for fall 2018
41%of first-year students
are women or are from underrepresented
backgrounds
19%of undergraduate students are from underrepresented
backgrounds
549Engineering
undergraduates received financial aid in FY19.
The average need-based scholarship was $44,850.
27%of undergraduate
varsity athletes are Engineering majors
50&42Engineers come from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico and 42 countries
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1,363Undergraduate students
625Full-time master’s students
258Part-time master’s students
431PhD students
international students
12%Undergraduate students
65%Full-time master’s students
64%PhD students
CS131Undergraduate
class with the highest enrollment at WashU
top countries China
India
South Korea
Iran
Japan
Bangladesh
Brazil
Singapore
Thailand
Israel
Turkey
popul ar states Missouri • Illinois • California New York • Texas • New Jersey Massachusetts • Florida • Ohio
women students
Undergraduate Master’s PhD
30% 27% 29%
793 applied31.7% admitted104 enrolled
6,411 applied 13.9% admitted285 enrolled
Undergraduates Master’s PhD
2,464 applied 62.2% admitted431 enrolled
On Jan. 31, 2019, the school entered a new era as the McKelvey School of
Engineering thanks to a transformative, unprecedented investment by alumnus James McKelvey Jr. and his wife, Anna. The gift will be used to fund endowed
scholarships and professorships, as well as the dean’s highest priorities for
advancing the school and its impact on lives and communities in St. Louis
and around the world. The gift will also advance educational and research
programs that integrate computing and engineering with other disciplines,
and it will support the school’s effort to enhance the region’s innovation and
entrepreneurial ecosystem.
fall 2018
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$1.6 million to study combining intranasal drug delivery, focused ultrasoundThe NIH grant will fund a broader understanding of earlier work combining intranasal drug delivery and focused ultrasound (FUSIN). It will also combine latest research in imaging toward developing image-guided drug delivery.
Making sense, pictures of medical dataMcKelvey Engineers are looking at approaches that have been successful in decreasing cognitive load and using those approaches to design easier-to-understand visualizations.
‘Hopeful technology’ could change detection, diagnosis of deadly ovarian cancerA biomedical engineer conducted a pilot study using co-registered photoacoustic tomography with ultrasound to evaluate ovarian tumors on 16 patients at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Bigger proteins, stronger threads: Synthetic spider silkResearchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU have engineered bacteria that produce a biosynthetic spider silk with performance on par with its natural counterparts in all of the important measures.
Giving users a handle on their dataA computer scientist is developing a novel user privacy protection framework that will give users full privacy control over their data. The work is funded by a four-year, collaborative, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
buzzworthy $34.3M research funding sources (f y19 expenditures)
total research awards (f y19)
Sinopoli named chair of WashU electrical & systems engineering
Bruno Sinopoli, a renowned expert in cyber-physical systems and control systems, was named
chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical &
Systems Engineering, effective Jan. 1, 2019.
Industry: $2.5M
Other private sources: $1.5M
Other government: $1.3M
Nonprofit: $1.1M
feder al sponsors NIH: $10.1M
NSF: $7.6M
DOE: $2.3M
DOD: $1.6M
NASA: $540K
research
news
new chair
Biomedical Engineering: 17.5
Computer Science & Engineering: 29.5
Electrical & Systems Engineering: 14.5
Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering: 19
Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science: 16
96.5tenured/tenure-track faculty
33full-time teaching faculty
10:1undergraduate student-to-faculty radio
New, nontoxic materials for solar cells underwayEngineers from multiple departments are studying whether a nontoxic element — bismuth, lead’s neighbor on the periodic table — is a safer and equally efficient substitute for lead in perovskites.
Seeking to improve quantum computationAn engineer is leading a team developing a two-photon controlled-phase logic gate that could boost quantum information science and technology.
Engineering treatments for the opioid epidemic A biomedical engineer is developing a therapeutic option that would prevent the opiates from crossing the blood-brain barrier, preventing the high abusers seek.
Drug-filled gel to repair heart after heart attackAn engineer is developing a new material that would deliver drugs directly to the damaged part of the heart to preserve the support network, or extracellular matrix while blocking two enzymes.
$22.2MFederal funding
$148,904,000total gross revenue
$139,524,000total expenses $8,683,000str ategic oper ating & capital reserves
$697,000net results
Grants & contracts:$29.6M
Other income: $4.9M
Gifts & endowment: $20.3M
expenses
financial report
Salaries & benefits: $54.3M
Gift aid: $36.1M
Central Fiscal Unit/space: $32M
Operations: $17.1M
sources of income (f y19)
Tuition: $94.1M
faculty
Aaron Bobick, Dean and the James M. McKelvey Professor
McKelvey School of Engineering Dean
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top companies Accenture
Amazon
Anheuser-Busch
AT&T
Bain & Company Inc.
bioMerieux
Boeing
Capital One
Cerner Corp.
Citigroup
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Epic
Environmental Systems Design Inc.
Exxon Mobil Corp.
FactSet Research System
Garmin International
L'Oreal USA Inc.
McMaster-Carr
Microsoft Corp.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sense Corp.
Square
ZS Associates
top graduate schools & postdoc fellowships Boston University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Stanford Law School
University of California, Berkeley
University of Wisconsin – Madison
starting sal ary by ma jor
outcomes for gr aduate students
Bachelor of Science reported average starting salaries for 2018 graduates.
$64,850
$75,866
$87,930
$70,125
$73,541
$71,000
$65,126
95% of bs gr aduates secured opportunities within six months of gr aduation
outcomes academic programs
66% Post-graduation employment
21% Graduate, medical or law school
8% Internship, co-op, research, other
Biomedical EngineeringUndergraduate programs:
» Biomedical Engineering
Graduate programs:
» PhD in Biomedical Engineering
» MS in Biomedical Engineering
» MEng in Biomedical Innovation
» Certificate in Medical Physics
Computer Science & EngineeringUndergraduate programs:
» Bioinformatics (minor)
» Computer Engineering
» Computer Science
» Computer Science + Math
» Business and Computer Science (joint program)
Graduate programs:
» PhD in Computer Engineering
» PhD in Computer Science
» MS in Computer Engineering
» MS in Computer Science
» MS in Cybersecurity Engineering
» MEng in Computer Science & Engineering
» Certificate in Data Mining & Machine Learning
Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems EngineeringUndergraduate programs:
» Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering (minor)
» Electrical Engineering
» Mechatronics (minor)
» Robotics
» Systems Science & Engineering
» Financial Engineering (second major only)
Graduate programs:
» PhD or DSc in Electrical Engineering
» PhD or DSc in Systems Science & Mathematics
» MS in Electrical Engineering
» MS in Systems Science & Mathematics
» MS in Data Analytics and Statistics
» Master of Control Engineering
» MEng in Robotics
» Certificate in Imaging Science & Engineering
Energy, Environmental & Chemical EngineeringUndergraduate programs:
» Chemical Engineering
» Environmental Engineering
» Energy Engineering (minor)
Graduate programs:
» PhD in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
» MS in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
» MEng in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
» MEng/MBA program
Mechanical Engineering & Materials ScienceUndergraduate programs:
» Mechanical Engineering
» Applied Science
» Nanoscale Science & Engineering (minor)
Graduate programs:
» PhD in Aerospace Engineering
» PhD in Mechanical Engineering
» MS in Aerospace Engineering
» MS in Mechanical Engineering
» MS in Materials Science & Engineering
» MEng in Mechanical Engineering
Henry Edwin Sever InstituteGraduate programs:
» Master’s in Construction Management
» Master’s in Cybersecurity Management
» Master’s in Engineering Management
» Master’s in Health Care Operational Excellence
» Master’s in Information Systems Management
» Master’s In Project Management
UMSL/WashU Joint Engineering Undergraduate ProgramUndergraduate programs:
» Civil Engineering
» Electrical Engineering
» Mechanical Engineering
Interdisciplinary programsGraduate programs:
» PhD in Computational & Data Sciences
» PhD in Imaging Science
» PhD in Materials Science & Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
PhD students
Systems Science & Engineering
Computer Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Reported post-graduate plans for recent graduates.
Industry
Postdoc or academia
Startup
Master’s students
Industry
Doctoral degree
Internship
Military
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2018-19 highlights Renamed McKelvey School of Engineering will take innovation, technology and academics to new heights
Pratim Biswas, a pioneer is aerosol science and technology, elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Jubel Hall, the new home to the department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, opens
New era in engineering:
Biomedical Engineering
No. 14 U.S. News ranking for graduate program
$161.2M Raised for Engineering during the Leading Together Capital Campaign
868 Degrees awarded
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