<p>Number of faculty members in the National Academy of Engineering
114 - MIT
92 - Stanford
77 - UC Berkeley
48 - Univ. of Texas
31 - CalTech
29 - Illinois
26 - Georgia Tech
25 - Princeton
25 - Cornell
25 - Carnegie Mellon
23 - USC
22 - UCSB
21 - Michigan
20 - UCSD
20 - Northwestern
19 - Harvard
19 - UCLA
18 - Purdue
16 - Columbia
16 - Univ. of Washington
16 - Minnesota
14 - Maryland
13 - Texas A&M
12 - Rice
11 - Virginia
11 - Unv. of Colorado
11 - Ohio State
10 - Lehigh
10 - Arizona
10 - Virginia Tech
9 - Univ.of Penn
9 - UC Davis
9 - Arizona State
9 - Penn State
8 - UC Irvine
8 - Rutgers
8 - Case Western
8 - NC State
7 - Johns Hopkins
7 - RPI
7 - Delaware
7 - Florida
7 - Utah
6 - Yale
6 - Iowa State
6 - UMass
5 - UNC
5 - Houston
5 - NYU
5 - Rochester
4 - Brown
4 - Drexel
4 - Kansas
3 - Duke</p>
<p>and this means what?</p>
<p>Its another way to rank the engineering programs, I guess. Quality of faculty, all that.</p>
<p>^I don’t know… I’m looking at that and somehow feeling a West Coast bias.</p>
<p>If 3 out of the top ten is a bias to you, well I’d hate to see what you consider “unbiased”.</p>
<p>In fact, I only see 10 west-coast schools there on the whole list.</p>
<p>The bias is seeing schools like UCSB, UCLA, Washington, ahead of schools like Penn State and UMD. I don’t know, maybe that’s just my eastern bias…</p>
<p>It would be more useful if it listed ratio of academy of science professors to undergraduate students at each university.</p>
<p>It really just means if you are a prospective grad student then if you go somewhere with a lot of NAE members you are more likely to get a renowned advisor.</p>
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<p>I’m not agreeing with QwertyKey in any way, but it’s 3 out of the top 5…</p>
<p>QwertyKey,</p>
<p>You do have an eastern bias; UMD is never known for having strong engineering program. By the time I applied to grad schools, I’d lived in MA, MO, and IL so if there were any bias, it’d have been more eastern than western. At the time, I knew UCLA, UCSB, and UDubb got quite a few top-25 departments; I knew Penn State got a really good IE program but I wasn’t considering Penn State at all. UMD never came to my mind, most likely because it’s rankings were too low for me to spot it.</p>
<p>is the number of members somehow subjective? how can there be any bias?</p>
<p>I don’t think there CAN be bias other than noticing that NAE members must prefer to live out west. Haha</p>
<p>^exactly. there’s no sampling here.</p>
<p>good list, good post, </p>
<p>u got a link?..I’d like to find out who the NAE prof’s at my schools are…</p>
<p>I take it back. I had just had in my mind that Penn State, Wisconsin (which I just noticed isn’t on the list at all), and UMD were highly regarded and that UCLA (for engineering) UCSB, and Washington weren’t.</p>
<p>^the list is not complete. Wisconsin has 19 members of the NAE.</p>
<p>My dad is on that list! :)</p>
<p>Wow, the absence of Wisconsin is kind of glaring. I wonder if there are other schools left off the list.</p>
<p>sorry about leaving Wisconsin out - as I reasearch colleges I am finding out how great this institution actually is.</p>
<p>I had an original select group then decided to go through the whole list and add those schools with 4 or more members plus duke at 3. I must have thought that Wisconsin was already on the list when I was in the “W” section…</p>
<p>I will correct the list in my next post</p>
<p>here is the link, by the way:</p>
<p>[Members</a> By Parent Institution](<a href=“http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+Parent+InstitutionA?openview]Members”>http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+Parent+InstitutionA?openview)</p>
<p>Number of faculty members in the National Academy of Engineering
114 - MIT
92 - Stanford
77 - UC Berkeley
48 - Univ. of Texas
31 - CalTech
29 - Illinois
26 - Georgia Tech
25 - Princeton
25 - Cornell
25 - Carnegie Mellon
23 - USC
22 - UCSB
21 - Michigan
20 - UCSD
20 - Northwestern
19 - Harvard
19 - UCLA
19 - Wisconsin
18 - Purdue
16 - Columbia
16 - Univ. of Washington
16 - Minnesota
14 - Maryland
13 - Texas A&M
12 - Rice
11 - Virginia
11 - Unv. of Colorado
11 - Ohio State
10 - Lehigh
10 - Arizona
10 - Virginia Tech
9 - Univ.of Penn
9 - UC Davis
9 - Arizona State
9 - Penn State
8 - UC Irvine
8 - Rutgers
8 - Case Western
8 - NC State
7 - Johns Hopkins
7 - RPI
7 - Delaware
7 - Florida
7 - Utah
6 - Yale
6 - Iowa State
6 - UMass
5 - UNC
5 - Houston
5 - NYU
5 - Rochester
4 - Brown
4 - Drexel
4 - Kansas
3 - Duke</p>
<p>bones, or in a school like Princeton, with a small graduate school and a requirement that ALL professors teach undergraduates, then you have a good chance, as an undergraduate, of getting one of the NAE members as an advisor for your senior research thesis and guaranteed that several of your undergraduate Engineering courses will be taught by one of these NAE members.</p>
<p>For instance, in the highly ranked Chemical Engineering department of Princeton, a whopping 9 of the 24 professors are members of the NAE, with only 29 Ch.E. students graduating with a BSChE last year, in addition to 32 students who received their Masters and PHD’s.</p>
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