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Î ÎÎ NYU Tandon moved up 39 spots over the last Î Women make up 43% of the Tandon Class decade in U.S. News and World Report. of 2022, 20% higher than the national average for an engineering ÎÎ Alum James Truslow Adams (1898) coined the school. 40% of our term The American Dream in his 1931 book students are 1st in The Epic of America, painting a portrait of a their families to attend place where “each man and each woman shall college and over 1/3 % be able to attain to the fullest stature of which are Pell eligible. NYU 43 they are innately capable, and be recognized Tandon is changing the by others for what they are, regardless of the definition of who fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” is under-represented in STEM. ÎÎ NYU Tandon is a premier center for Cybersecurity. It launched one of the first ÎÎ NYU Tandon Online is ranked by U.S. News and cybersecurity master’s degree programs World Report among Best Online Graduate (1998); runs the world’s largest student-run Engineering programs for the 6th year in a row, cybersecurity games, CSAW, with 20,000 and #2 among Online Information Technology participants annually; is home to the “Bridge” Master’s Degree Programs. program, uniquely designed to give those lacking a background in science or engineering ÎÎ FINTECH: Second oldest financial engineering a gateway into earning a master’s in program (1995), ranked #9 by Quantnet. cybersecurity or other select master’s degree; ÎÎ The Center for K-12 STEM Education has a leader in hardware security research; and as educated 500 home to the NYU Center for Cybersecurity teachers and is home to a cross discipline program with law positively impacted and business. our 50,000 public school students since 2013.

ÎÎ Tandon is home to the first NYC- supported tech incubator, created in 2009; today, graduated companies have generated $1 billion in funding, over 3,200 jobs, and $4 billion in total economic activity. Our network of startup business hubs now includes the Digital Future Lab, devoted to such areas as cloud computing and digital media; the Urban Future Lab, whose companies are working to advance smart cities, clean energy; the Data Future Lab, which incubates early-stage businesses working with computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or building intelligent ÎÎ NYU WIRELESS is among the top conversational agents; and the Veterans Future 5 academic research centers for Lab, dedicated to helping the nation’s military 5G wireless veterans transition to civilian life through communications entrepreneurship: Future Labs companies have and is at the the inverse success rate of the national average vanguard of for startups. tomorrow’s tech. Having pioneered mm- wave wireless, the center is exploring realms above 100GHz, and now looking ahead to 6G. The future is now. ALUMNI

ÎÎ In 2016, Nina Freeman (‘15) was ÎÎ The Tandon community includes ÎÎ In 1914 the Panama Canal was named one of the most important multiple Nobel laureates — Frances completed. Its lock system was the young figures in the gaming world by Crick (postdoctoral fellow during work of our alum Henry Goldmark Forbes magazine; in 2018 her work the ’53-’54 academic year), Gertrude (1874), who was later awarded a medal was included in an exhibit at London’s B. Elion (former Ph.D. student and of honor by President Howard Taft for Victoria & Albert Museum, and CNN recipient of a 1989 honorary degree), his crucial contribution to the project. recognized her as one of the “bold, Martin L. Perl (’48), and former ÎÎ In 1957 Eugene Kleiner (’48) helped provocative, and inclusive new faces professor Rudolph Marcus — as well as found Fairchild Semiconductor, a of game design.” Turing Prize winners Judea Pearl (‘65) pioneer in transistor and integrated- and Martin Hellman (‘66) ÎÎ Myriam Sbeiti, the valedictorian of circuit manufacturing. The company’s the Class of 2018, is the co-founder ÎÎ Arthur V. Abbott (1875) and James production of silicon transistors, of a thriving company, Sunthetics, J. Wood (1879) were instrumental rather than ones made of more launched while she was still a student in building the Brooklyn Bridge common germanium, and devoted to developing greener helped give Silicon Valley production methods for the chemical- ÎÎ John McKeen (‘26) and Jasper its name. Kleiner later manufacturing world. She is an H. Kane (‘28) enabled the mass co-founded a venture example of the Tandon entrepreneurial production of penicillin, thereby capital firm that provided way of thinking. saving countless lives funding for such now-iconic companies ÎÎ Charles R. Flint (1868) as Amazon, Google and AOL. founded such iconic companies as IBM. ÎÎ In 2009, when she was appointed CEO of Xerox, Ursula Burns (’80) became ÎÎ Tandon’s astronaut the first African-American woman ever alum, Paolo Nespoli to head a Fortune 500 company. (’88, ‘89), returned this year from his third trip to the International Space Station, bringing the

370 Jay Street total number of days Nina Freeman Myriam Sbeiti he has spent in space Paolo Nespoli to 313.

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ÎÎ 370 Jay Street, the 500,000-sq-ft ÎÎ The RLab — the first City-funded former MTA headquarters has been virtual and augmented reality lab transformed into a state-of-the-art in the country — will help change home to innovation, technology, and the way we communicate, engineering. tell stories, and conduct business. AR/VR ÎÎ The NYU Tandon MakerSpace contains will help us everything aspiring engineers need to connect to the take their innovations from ideas to past, formulate concepts and eventually prototypes. new futures, and make Î Î Tandon’s NanoFab Cleanroom, tomorrow’s Brooklyn’s first cleanroom, will allow reality our researchers to fabricate advanced attainable materials and devices that will push to others. the boundaries of established science and technology.

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