Stanford University School of Engineering

Stanford University School of Engineering is one of the schools of Stanford University. The school has had eight deans; the current is James D. Plummer. In addition the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering is an interdisciplinary program. The School of Engineering was established in 1926 when Stanford organized the previous independent academic departments into a school. The original departments in the school were Aeronautics and Astronautics started as Aeronautical Engineering in 1958, Chemical Engineering in 1961 when it split from Chemistry, Computer Science in 1965 in the School of Humanities and Sciences but moved to the School of Engineering in 1985, Materials Science and Engineering in 1961 though originally...