Brown University School of Engineering
The Brown University School of Engineering is the engineering school of Brown University, a private Ivy League research university located in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown's engineering program is the third oldest civilian engineering program in the United States and the oldest undergraduate program in the Ivy League. The School of Engineering is noted for its historically prominent contributions to continuum and applied mechanics, originally led by European émigré researchers in the 20th century. Brown's Division of Engineering was elevated in 2010 to its current status as a school.
Brown's Engineering Research Center is the school's newest building.
The Lincoln Field Building was built in 1903 as the university's first building devoted to engineering
Built in 1965, Barus & Holley is shared by the Brown Physics Department and School of Engineering
Thomas O. Paine '42 administrator of NASA during Apollo 11
Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. One of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, it was the first US college to codify that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religion.
Petitioner Ezra Stiles later became the seventh president of Yale College.
Petitioner William Ellery signed the US Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Brown's first president, minister James Manning
The Ezra Stiles copy of Brown's 1764 charter
