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NYU Tandon is rooted in a vibrant tradition of entrepreneurship, intellectual curiosity, and innovative solutions to humanity’s most pressing global challenges.

Research at Tandon focuses on vital intersections between communications/IT, cybersecurity, and data science/AI/robotics systems and tools and critical areas of society that they influence, including emerging media, health, sustainability, and urban living.

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The NYU Tandon School of Engineering dates to 1854, the founding date for both the New York University School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Our school was, quite literally, the birthplace of the American Dream; it was our alum James Truslow Adams who coined that phrase in 1931.

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Just as it was then, Tandon is a place where ambitious students from all walks of life get the solid education they need to launch their careers. A January 2014 merger created a comprehensive school of education and research in engineering and applied sciences as part of a global university, with close connections to engineering programs at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai. We believe diversity is integral to excellence, and are creating a vibrant, inclusive, and equitable environment for all of our students, faculty and staff.

Why NYU Tandon?

Our reputation as a global education leader with a world-class faculty and state-of-the-art facilities make the School of Engineering the perfect place to pursue your education.

Visit NYU Tandon

We welcome you explore Brooklyn and discover the NYU Tandon experience firsthand.

The NYU Tandon Made mindset — tackling the challenges and opportunities ahead of us with equal parts determination, innovation, street smarts, and a healthy measure of heart — suffuses everything here, from our courses to our student competitions to our labs and prototyping spaces.

 

Our Engineers

Featured Faculty

Brilliant, renowned, distinguished, award-winning: you can describe our faculty members many ways, but the most important description just might be dedicated. 

Featured Students

The School of Engineering students are anything but average. Extraordinarily bright, they're inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs.

Featured Alumni

Our alumni include leaders in every field, from bioengineering to business and beyond.

Mission

Our mission is to be a world-class engineering school that puts students first and is home to lifelong learning. We will be the place that makes the American dream possible; the home of engaged critical thinkers and makers of the future. Our culture of diversity, inclusion, equality, and respect will make us the place where every smart young engineer wants to be. Our students and faculty will tackle strategic societal challenges using a global vision and network, ensuring our cutting-edge innovations are thoughtfully and successfully introduced into society. We will be the engine of innovation for Brooklyn and New York City.

Values

Our values are the bedrock of our community. We believe in changing the world through our passion for scientific truth, facts, and educational excellence within a nurturing and connected community accessible to all.

 

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.
Alum James Truslow Adams, BS 1898