page_title: New York University Tandon School of Engineering
section_title: Name
hierarchical_section_title: New York University Tandon School of Engineering / Name
caption_attribution_description: English: Electrostatic Laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University
context_page_description: The New York University Tandon School of Engineering is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States. The school dates back to 1854 when its predecessor institutions, the University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, were founded. The school was renamed in 2015 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 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.
context_section_description: The school started from two origins and has carried a number of different names:
  1854: Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute; University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and Architecture (founding names, separate institutions)
  1889: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (also spun out Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School)
  1896: New York University School of Applied Science (separate from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn)
  1920: New York University College of Engineering (separate from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn)
  1973: Polytechnic Institute of New York (acquired the faculty, programs and students of New York University College of Engineering)
  1985: Polytechnic University (acquired university status)
  2008: Polytechnic Institute of New York University (affiliated with New York University)
  2014: New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (merged with New York University)
  2015: New York University Tandon School of Engineering
caption: Polytechnic Institute Electrostatic Laboratory 1903–1904
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