Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Name	Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Established	2007 (as current school)
Type	Private
City	Cambridge
State	Massachusetts
Country	United States
Parent	Harvard University

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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is the engineering and applied sciences school affiliated with Harvard University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It integrates research and teaching across fields associated with John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences founders and predecessors, drawing faculty and students who engage with institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Broad Institute, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, and Boston Dynamics. The school collaborates with partners including IBM, Microsoft Research, Google, Intel Corporation, and DARPA on interdisciplinary projects.

History

The school's lineage traces to early technical instruction at Harvard College and initiatives by figures like Charles William Eliot, Henry Dunster, and Warren Delano Jr.; later developments involved organizations such as Radcliffe College, the Carnegie Institution for Science, and interactions with National Science Foundation priorities. During the 20th century, faculty hired from institutions including Bell Labs, Princeton University, Stanford University, Caltech, and University of California, Berkeley advanced research in areas aligned with work by labs like Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The consolidation into the modern school paralleled construction and academic planning influenced by figures associated with John Harvard Statue, municipal projects in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and fundraising campaigns led by donors comparable to John A. Paulson, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and David Rockefeller.

Facilities occupy sites in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Yard, with buildings connected to resources like the Harvard Art Museums, Fogg Museum, Countway Library, and research centers such as Harvard Radcliffe Institute and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Laboratories are equipped for collaborations with external facilities including MIT Media Lab, Broad Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and partnerships with corporate labs such as Amazon Lab126 and Apple Inc.. Key infrastructure supports experimental work drawing on instruments similar to those at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, and CERN, as well as computational clusters comparable to systems at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Organizational units align with departments and programs that mirror fields present at Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, and University of Pennsylvania. Departments include those focused on applied mathematics linked to work by scholars from Courant Institute, applied physics with connections to Bell Labs and IBM Research, electrical engineering related to projects at Intel Corporation and Qualcomm, computer science connected to research at MIT CSAIL and Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and bioengineering informed by collaborations with Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Graduate and undergraduate programs coordinate joint appointments with institutes such as Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and consortiums including the Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital networks.

Admissions processes are competitive and resemble those at peer institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and Yale University, with applicants often having backgrounds from schools such as Phillips Exeter Academy, Stuyvesant High School, and international institutions including University of Cambridge and University of Oxford. Student life features student organizations and teams comparable to groups at Harvard Crimson, Harvard Business School clubs, and project teams that collaborate with entities like American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Association for Computing Machinery. Residential and extracurricular connections extend to houses and centers such as Adams House, Dunster House, Memorial Hall, and community outreach with City of Cambridge programs.

Faculty and alumni include individuals affiliated with or comparable to prize winners and leaders from institutions like Niels Bohr Institute, Max Planck Society, Royal Society, and awardees of honors such as Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal, MacArthur Fellows Program, and National Medal of Science. Notable figures have moved between posts at MIT, Stanford University, Caltech, Princeton University, Yale University, and corporations including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple Inc., and Amazon. Alumni have founded or led organizations such as Dropbox, Palantir Technologies, Theranos, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Moderna, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stripe, and contributed to ventures tied to Harvard Business School entrepreneurship programs.