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50-552: Tega Brain is an Australian-born digital artist and environmental engineer who is also an assistant professor of Integrated Digital Media at New York University (NYU). Brain is known for her eccentric and often purposefully dysfunctional information systems that examine the intersection between digital networks and natural phenomena. Her art works have been discussed widely in press outlets such as The New York Times , The Atlantic , Artforum , NPR and The Guardian . Brain's works have been exhibited in multiple museums such as

100-579: A Center of Excellence in Research, and the New York State Resiliency Institute for Storms & Emergencies (NYS RISE), which is housed jointly at NYU's Brooklyn campus, and Stony Brook University. Over the years the school has been a key center of research in the development of microwave physics, radar, polymers and the space program. During World War II the school's Microwave Research Institute worked on problems whose solution led to

150-515: A European polytechnic university model in the 1800s, in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States . It has been a key center of research in the development of microwave , wireless , radar , electronics in general, polymers , industrial engineering , operations research and the US space program . On May 17, 1853, a group of Brooklyn businessmen wrote a charter to establish

200-518: A Masters of Art at the Queensland University of Technology in 2012. In 2015, in response to the decision by John Hancock Insurance to offer discounts if members shared their personal fitness data as logged by a Fitbit , Brain, alongside engineer Surya Mattu, created the website Unfit-Bits. The website offers solutions to spoof fitness data, to "produce data to qualify [users] for incentives from employers or insurers, even if they can't afford

250-527: A high exercise lifestyle". This work was part of the exhibition, "24/7: A Wake Up Call for Our Non-Stop World" in 2019. In 2020 she created the work, "New York Apartment", with collaborator Sam Lavigne . This work aggregates all New York City real-estate listings and presents them as a fictional massive apartment. Again in 2020, the pair collaborated on a website titled "Get Well Soon!", which archives over 20,000 comments from GoFundMe campaigns and lists them in alphabetical order. The New York Times described

300-654: A location in downtown Manhattan. The downtown site offers degree programs in Financial Engineering, Management of Technology, Information Management and Accelerated Management of Technology, and the Exec 21 Construction Management certificate. NYU Tandon Digital Learning (formerly known as NYU Tandon Online) is the digital learning department at NYU Tandon School of Engineering which offers 4 master's degrees, an advanced graduate certificate, and certificate of completion programs fully online. Focused on peer-to-peer engagement,

350-490: A merger with Polytechnic University and New York University began in 2004. Four years later Polytechnic University and New York University agreed to take steps toward a merger beginning with a formal affiliation between the two schools. This affiliation resulted in the school changing its name to Polytechnic Institute of New York University. The schools officially merged in 2014 when the New York State Regents approved

400-796: A number of different names: The NYU Tandon School of Engineering main campus is in Downtown Brooklyn and is close to public transportation routes . It is located in the Brooklyn Tech Triangle and about a 20-minute subway ride from NYU's main campus in Lower Manhattan . It is also connected to the Washington Square campus by the NYU Shuttle Bus system. In addition to its main address at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn,

450-520: A school for young men. Founded as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, the school moved into its first home at 99 Livingston Street in Brooklyn. The first class, admitted in 1855, consisted of 265 young men aged nine to 17. The school conferred its first bachelor's degrees in 1871. Graduate programs began in 1901, and the school awarded its first doctoral degree in 1921. From 1889 to 1973

500-964: Is a degree-granting research facility of NYU located at 370 Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn , New York and is adjacent to NYU School of Engineering's Rogers Hall. New York University Tandon School of Engineering has just over 33,000 living alumni living in 68 countries as of 2015. The school's alumni include inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians, country presidents, university presidents, academic leaders (including NYU Stern 's founder Charles Waldo Haskins ) and more than 2,000 CEOs and leaders at large corporations. Among its past and present graduates and faculty are at least four Nobel Prize winners, seven National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation winners, two astronauts, Russ Prize , IEEE Edison Medal , Turing Award , Gordon Prize and Draper Prize winners and over 100 National Academy of Engineering members. Alumni leaders at large companies include: Partial list of inventors affiliated with

550-520: Is located in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. Initially founded as part of the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (predecessor of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering ), Poly Prep now offers classes from nursery school through 12th grade. Poly Prep was established 170 years ago in 1854 as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute in Downtown Brooklyn . It was one of

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600-611: Is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States . The school dates back to 1854 when its predecessor institutions were separately founded: the University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, which evolved into the NYU College of Engineering; and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, which evolved into Polytechnic Institute. In 1973, Polytechnic Institute acquired

650-664: The Center for Urban Science and Progress and other academic units within NYU, opened in Fall 2017. The Bioengineering Institute research facility is located at 433 First Avenue in Manhattan. The School of Engineering and Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry are located in the building where chemical, biomolecular engineers, as well as mechanical engineers do research in biomaterials and biotherapeutics for regenerative medicine. The engineering school also has

700-487: The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) have recognized the school's undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, computer science and physics, chemistry and mathematics. Tandon's incoming classes typically consist of about 700 students, with a total academic population of over 5,000. For Fall 2019, the average SAT scores for incoming freshmen was 1448. The acceptance rate for the graduate programs in 2016

750-766: The Microwave Research Institute , established in 1945. The American Chemical Society designated the Polymer Research Institute as a National Historic Chemical Landmark on September 3, 2003. The Microwave Research Institute developed electromagnetic and microwave defense and communication systems and later renamed itself the Weber Research Institute . Other notable research centers of the institute include NSF-sponsored Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) , which ranked #1 among technology research centers in funding and #2 in

800-564: The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In 2021, Brain co-authored the textbook Code as Creative Medium which serves as a guide for educators and computer scientists about teaching and learning computational art and design. Brain received a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts at University of New South Wales in 2006. She then completed

850-430: The sexual assault of students by Philip Foglietta, the head football coach from 1966 to 1991. The allegations surfaced during Foglietta's first year at the school, during the tenure of Headmaster J. Folwell Scull, who was the head of Poly Prep from 1949 to 1970. They persisted during the tenure of William M. Williams, who was the headmaster from 1970 to 2000. Despite ongoing accusations of rape and molestation, no action

900-602: The 16-acre, $ 1 billion complex in Brooklyn includes the school's main campus, along with several technology-dependent companies such as Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), as well as New York City Police Department 's 9-1-1 Center, New York City Fire Department Headquarters and the U.S. technology and operations functions of JPMorgan Chase . The school has seven buildings in Brooklyn, as well as leased spaces in some other nearby buildings. The seven buildings are as follows: An eighth 460,000-square-foot space at 370 Jay St , adjacent to Rogers Hall, which houses

950-599: The Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society, a site formerly rented by the now defunct Woodward Park School. The new property was converted into Poly's Lower School, offering classes for students from nursery through 4th grade. In the 2006–2007 school year, a modern expansion was added onto the Park Slope building. As part of its "Blue and Gray Goes Green!" initiative, Poly chose to reduce the new Lower School's ecological "footprint". Poly's renovated Lower School became

1000-555: The College of Engineering from NYU, but in 2008, Polytechnic was absorbed by NYU to become its new engineering school. In 2015 NYU renamed the engineering school in honor of NYU Trustees Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon following their donation of $ 100 million to the school. The school's main campus is in Brooklyn 's MetroTech Center , an urban academic-industrial research park . It is one of several engineering schools that were founded based on

1050-738: The Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE), Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Society for Metals , Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Physical Society (APS) and

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1100-529: The School of Civil Engineering and Architecture at a time when specialized schools of engineering were uncommon in America. Classes began in 1855 and the school awarded its first undergraduate degree in 1857. As the industrial revolution took shape, the school formalized its engineering curriculum and the school's first dean, Charles H. Snow , changed the name of the school to the School of Applied Science. During this time

1150-521: The abuse and the school's failure over the decades to respond appropriately when victims revealed their abuse. Headmaster Harman and the chairman of the board of trustees, Scott Smith, subsequently resigned. A permanent memorial to the victims of the abuse was placed in a prominent location of the campus. Poly Prep consists of three divisions, beginning with the Lower School located at 50 Prospect Park West in Brooklyn. Lower School education commences with

1200-414: The change of charter making NYU the sole member of Polytechnic University. Since the merger, applications to the school and incoming SAT scores have increased substantially. The school has also experienced an influx of students coming from outside of New York state. Fundraising and faculty research awards have increased since the merger. The school also opened a bioengineering facility in partnership with

1250-573: The collegiate division, the Polytechnic Preparatory Institute remained an all-boys collegiate preparatory program at 99 Livingston Street and, by the mid-1890s, had already become one of the largest prep schools in the country, with over 600 students. The school acquired its Dyker Heights location in 1916 after a 25-acre parcel of land, formerly the Dyker Meadow Golf Course, was offered to the trustees. Classes began during

1300-591: The construction of a new building next door to the school's original building provided a home for the college, which became known as the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn . Both divisions still exist, although the collegiate division, after many changes of name, was eventually acquired by New York University (NYU) in 2008 and, as of 2014, is now known as the New York University Tandon School of Engineering . After its initial separation from

1350-860: The development of radar, and later broke ground in electromagnetic theory and electronics in general. In later years the school participated in the space program, solving re-entry problems of crewed space capsules. The school has been affiliated with some major inventions and innovations including: the Panama Canal locks; lockmaking; the Brooklyn Bridge cables; cable-lift elevators; cordless phones; ATMs; bar codes; laser; radar; penicillin; polymers; elevator brakes; lightweight, ultra durable automotive brake rotor; light beer; cardiac defibrillator; artificial cardiac pacemaker; RFID; contact lenses; zoom lens; first telephone handset; commercial television; non-stick coating as an application of Teflon; suspension system for

1400-508: The early 1900s into the postwar decades. However, by the early 1970s this growth ceased due to rising crime and financial troubles in New York City. New York University faced financial hardships leading it to sell its University Heights campus that housed its engineering school to City University of New York , which in turn renamed the campus Bronx Community College . Also during that period from 1969 to 1975, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

1450-464: The engineering school officially separated from the university's arts and science school then called University College. In 1894 the University of the City of New York moved its engineering school to a new campus in the Bronx . The new campus gave the university space to build larger science laboratories that could not be constructed at its Washington Square site. With the addition of the new campus, under

1500-458: The faculty, programs and students of New York University's engineering school to form Polytechnic Institute of New York. Polytechnic Institute of New York gained university status in 1985 and changed its name to Polytechnic University. By 1986 Polytechnic University in Brooklyn was the largest technological university in the New York metropolitan area and the second-largest in graduate enrollment in

1550-432: The fall of 1917 at the new campus, amid continued construction that helped shape much of the school's current appearance. During the tenure of headmaster William M. Williams, the school began the transition to co-education in 1977 when it first admitted girls, graduating its first co-ed class in 1979. Poly Prep's most recent and dramatic expansion occurred in 1995, with its acquisition of the historic Hulbert Mansion from

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1600-708: The first LEED -certified school building in New York City, and the first such primary school building in the state. In April 2009, Poly Prep's Lower School won the Lucy B. Moses Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy as an outstanding example of historic preservation and renovation. The school was the subject of a federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn in 2009 centering on

1650-451: The first private boys' schools in the city of Brooklyn. The initial aim of the school was to offer an academic program similar to that of boarding schools of the time while striving to maintain a strong community feel among students and faculty alike. After 45 years, the future of the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute was re-evaluated in 1889, when the preparatory school and the collegiate division were finally separated. In 1891,

1700-566: The first report of molestation. Two years later 12 victims filed suit in state court, but the suit was dismissed due to New York State's statute of limitations . However, U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block subsequently ruled that portions of the suit could proceed in federal court. The suit was settled for $ 10 million in December 2012. On February 21, 2014, the school issued what the Wall Street Journal called "a sweeping apology" for

1750-536: The largest radio telescope; microwave technology; Apollo Lunar Module , the first, and to date only, crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space; X-ray crystallography; structure of the DNA molecule; submarine; modern refrigerator; A/C generator; electric motors; transformer; submarine communications facilities; development of the artificial sweetener aspartame; development of nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee;

1800-429: The leadership of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, the University of the City of New York renamed itself New York University. The neighborhood surrounding the Bronx campus eventually became known as University Heights . By 1920 separate electrical and chemical engineering departments were created and the school changed its name to the College of Engineering. Enrollment at New York University expanded considerably from

1850-448: The medical and dental schools. The school has had several fundraising campaigns over the years. From 2001 to 2005 the school raised more than $ 275 million. Alumnus Joseph J. Jacobs , who founded Jacobs Engineering Group , one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world, gave the school more than $ 30 million over the course of his life. A gift of $ 100 million from Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon in 2015 resulted in

1900-728: The nation after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Of the 300 engineering schools in the United States, Polytechnic had the second-largest graduate enrollment and was among the most successful institutions in the country as a producer of science and engineering graduates who went on to doctoral studies. An average of 7.2 percent of Polytechnic graduates went on to achieve a Ph.D., compared with two other schools with large engineering programs: Carnegie Mellon, with an average of 6 percent, and Princeton, with 4.5 percent. Polytechnic University became well known for its research centers in electrophysics and polymer blends. Discussions about

1950-664: The number of industry participants according to the United States National Science Foundation , Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (CATT), a New York State and NSF sponsored research center that is also affiliated with Columbia University, NSF-funded Internet Security and Information Systems Lab, a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) designated Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, Information Assurance Education and

2000-411: The nursery school program, which consists of early childhood learning up until the pre-kindergarten level, and continues on through fourth grade. The middle school program begins at grade 5, at which point Poly students enroll at Poly Prep's Middle and Upper School campus located at 9216 Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn, where they continue their education through 8th grade and then into high school. Poly Prep

2050-409: The piece as an "archive of well-wishes and fears, prayers and pleadings, represent a slice of the grief, love, medical costs and mutual aid that define illness in this country." New York University Tandon School of Engineering The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon ) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University . Tandon

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2100-607: The quasi-complementary (transistor) amplifier circuit; lateral transistor; the wireless microphone; as well as Eugene Kleiner 's first semiconductor (and much of the Silicon Valley ), and Spencer Trask 's investing and supporting of Thomas Edison's invention of the electric light bulb. Academic labs and research centers include: Research at the engineering school is conducted either through academic departments or through one of many interdisciplinary research centers including: The Center for Urban Science and Progress ( CUSP )

2150-650: The school became known as Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1917, the preparatory program separated from the Institute and became the Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School . Polytechnic Institute moved to its present location in 1957, the former site of the American Safety Razor Company factory, where it became a co-educational institution. In 1854, the University of the City of New York, now New York University , founded

2200-495: The school changing its name to the Tandon School of Engineering. New York University has committed to investing over $ 500 million to its engineering school in the coming years. In 2022, NYU announced it will invest $ 1 billion in the school to hire 40 tenure-track faculty members, improve lab and student spaces, and bolster the cybersecurity and artificial intelligence programs. The school started from two origins and has carried

2250-527: The school offers programs in Manhattan . The school is an integral part of NYU Abu Dhabi , NYU Shanghai and the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in downtown Brooklyn. The school played a major role in bringing about MetroTech Center , one of the largest urban university- corporate parks in the United States, while closing down the larger campus at its former Long Island Graduate Center. Today,

2300-456: The school: Poly Prep Country Day School Poly Prep Country Day School (commonly known as Poly Prep ) is an independent , co-educational day school with two campuses in Brooklyn , New York , United States. The Middle School (5th to 8th grades) and Upper School (9th to 12th grades) are located in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, while the Lower School (nursery to 4th grade)

2350-633: The unit has been recognized as providing one of the top online learning programs by the Online Learning Consortium among others. All undergraduate and graduate programs at the engineering school are accredited by the Middle States Association. Undergraduate chemistry students have the option to pursue a degree approved by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) ,

2400-424: Was 28%. The PhD student-faculty ratio in 2018 was 3.6:1. For Fall 2018, the international students represented 91 countries and domestic students represented the 47 U.S States. The student body comprises 28.8% females and 71.2% males. In 2023, the school reported $ 59 million in research expenditures. Some of the school's first research institutes included the Polymer Research Institute, established in 1942, and

2450-400: Was forced to rely on subsidies provided by New York state to keep the school afloat. The state supported Polytechnic on the basis that closing the school would create economic hardship locally. With both Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and New York University facing financial difficulties, the state brokered a merger with New York University's engineering school. Polytechnic Institute acquired

2500-406: Was taken for 25 years, until Foglietta's contract was not renewed in 1991. However, even then, the school announced that Foglietta had decided to retire and made no mention of the abuse. Alumni continued to press the matter, and eventually Williams's successor, David Harman, wrote to alumni in 2002 that the school had " recently [emphasis added] received credible allegations" of abuse—36 years after

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