University Facts & Figures - Virginia Tech

a.m. on the day of the competition and had until 8 p.m. that same day to develop a solution, an estimate,and construction schedule. The teams had to consider concrete placement, traffic control, structural steelerection, bridge construction, and conventional concrete in their solution for the fictional Port EvergladesBridge project in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.College Of EngineeringNoted Accomplishments/HonorsVirginia Tech is the home of the commonwealth’s leading College of Engineering, known in Virginia andthroughout the nation for the excellence of its programs in engineering education, research, and publicservice.Virginia Tech educates almost half of all the engineering graduates produced in Virginia, and it is amongthe top five providers of engineering baccalaureates in the U.S. Recruiters named the college as one of thetop five places to hire new graduates, according to an independent Wall Street Journal survey.Among the many highlights of 2011-12, the College of Engineering brought in more than $205 million, orapproximately one fifth of the overall university’s capital campaign goal of $1 billion. The college raised$50 million more than its target of $155 million.In addition to the Signature Engineering Building entering year two of its construction, two newengineering research buildings are underway. Space@VT will occupy most of the first floor of thefirst building in the new Phase II expansion of the Corporate Research Center. Aerospace and oceanengineering will have space on the first and third floors of the new Technology Research and InnovationCenter in Hampton Roads. An aerobiology building and the VT Propulsion Lab are in planning stages.In U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2013” survey, released in September 2012, thecollege’s undergraduate program ranked 16th among all accredited engineering schools, and sixth amongpublic universities.The magazine’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2013” survey, released in April 2012, ranked thecollege’s graduate program 24th among the nation’s engineering schools. The Charles E. Via Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering ranked eighth among civil engineering programs and seventhamong environmental engineering programs; the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems rankedthird for industrial/manufacturing programs; and the biological systems department ranked seventhamong biological/agricultural programs.In the college’s annual accounting to the American Society of Engineering Education, it reported $152.7million in research expenditures for fiscal year 2011. This is a college record, and up to 13 percent from$134.8 million in fiscal year 2010. The National Science Foundation (NSF) ranked the college 10th in thenation for research in fiscal year 2008 (released in April 2010 and not yet updated). Overall, the college isa quarter-of-a-billion dollar annual enterprise with approximately one-half of that money raised each yearthrough direct research dollars generated by the faculty.The School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences’ research is growing exponentially. From its birthin 2000 with almost no research spending, the numbers climbed to more than $16 million by 2011(latest reported number). In just about a decade, it rose from unranked to 37th in the nation. A newundergraduate minor starts in fall 2012.26University Facts & Figures 2012-13