Historical Background

The Polytechnic was established in 1854, and it granted its first degrees in Arts and Sciences in 1871 by special authority of the Regents of the State University. In 1890, it was reorganized and was given a broader college charter. 

In 1973, Polytechnic merged with the New York University School of Engineering and Science and was renamed the Polytechnic Institute of New York.

The two engineering colleges that merged in 1973 to become Polytechnic Institute of New York have roots in New York City. In 1854, the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute received its charter from the New York State Board of Regents. That same year, New York University established its school of civil engineering and architecture. Both schools began instruction in 1855. And in 1973, the inheritors of these traditions joined forces to form a single institution.

In 1985, the Institution was granted a university status by the New York State Board of Regents and officially renamed as Polytechnic University.

In 2008, the university entered into a formal affiliation with New York University in recognition of the synergies among different academic fields such as engineering, technology, medicine, dentistry, public policy, law, and the arts. Now known as Polytechnic Institute of New York University, or NYU-Poly, Polytechnic further enhanced its capability to prepare leaders to address the challenges of the 21st century.

In 2012, the Board of Trustees of NYU and NYU-Poly voted to undertake the final set of steps necessary to complete the merger to make NYU-Poly NYU's School of Engineering. Since then, key approvals from state and accrediting authorities put the merger on track to be finalized as of January 1, 2014. This marked the beginning of NYUPoly as the newest school at NYU: the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering.

Thanks to a visionary and generous donation made by Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon in 2015, the school was renamed the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

This website shows the history of Tandon school of engineering and its own root. Brief information about Tandon’s history are well represented with the time periods in each section. Besides, alumni graduated from Tandon and professors’ contributions are well explained with the figures and related photos. The website also gives a short video of Tandon’s history based on the vivid interviews with a lot of people who are related to the institution. Thus, people who access the website could easily get how New York University has been made and what happened at the exact time period.    

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For current students who are majoring in engineering at Tandon, students would like to know why Tandon is separated from Washington Square Park main campus and background information about the mergers. Besides, students would get some information about their great professors and research areas which students are mostly interested in.