page_title: Old Dominion University
section_title: Batten College of Engineering & Technology
hierarchical_section_title: Old Dominion University / Schools and Colleges / Batten College of Engineering & Technology
caption_attribution_description: English: Engineering Systems Building
context_page_description: Old Dominion University is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary and is now one of the largest universities in Virginia with an enrollment of 24,176 students for the 2019 academic year. Old Dominion University is also home to over 700 international students from 89 different countries. Its main campus covers over 251 acres straddling the city neighborhoods of Larchmont, Highland Park, and Lambert's Point, approximately five miles from Downtown Norfolk.
  Old Dominion University is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, ODU spent $60.3 million on research and development in 2018. It contributes nearly $2 billion annually in economic impact to the regional economy.
  The university offers 168 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to over 24,000 students and is one of the nation's largest providers of online distance learning courses. Old Dominion University has approximately 124,000 alumni in all 50 states and 67 countries.
context_section_description: Grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in 9 engineering disciplines, including Civil, Aerospace, Environmental, Electrical, Modeling and Simulation, Engineering Management, Computer, Mechanical, Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Technology and offers interesting concentrations, including Coastal Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Experimental Aeronautics, Laser and Plasma Engineering, Bioelectrics, Computational Engineering, and Ship Maintenance, Repair, and Operations. In 2010, the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology will become the first college in the United States offering all degrees in the emerging discipline of Modeling and Simulation (B.S., M.E., M.S., D.Eng., Ph.D.).
  In 2014, the College of Engineering opened the new Engineering Systems building which brought added laboratory, design and office space.
caption: Engineering Systems Building
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