Computer Science and Engineering Department Fund

UB Chemical and Biological Engineering professor Eli Ruckenstein.

Support a pioneering department with this fund, which bolsters critical academic and research initiatives.

Founded in 1967 by a computing pioneer, the Computer Science and Engineering Department was one of the first in the nation.

As part of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, we aim to provide students with strong conceptual foundations (theoretical and experimental), and also expose them to the forefront of the developments in the field of computing. Recognizing the applicability of computing to all fields of knowledge and practice, we also provide interdisciplinary degree programs, and offer computer education and training to all students at UB.

Here, our faculty perform world-class research in today’s most relevant topics, such as artificial intelligence and robotics, cyber security, big data analytics, bioinformatics and computer-assisted education, to name just a few. UB’s Center for Computational Research (CCR) is considered one of the nation's leading supercomputing centers and supports high performance computing for departmental research in a variety of areas.

In addition to our academic and research initiatives, we assist other UB departments in developing faculty computing expertise, and provide industrial outreach.

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News from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

  • Giving the world a helping hand: Students design 3D printed prosthetics
    7/31/20

    A group of engineering undergraduate students put their knowledge, creativity and resources to use and created a UB chapter of e-NABLE – an online global community who use 3D printers to make free and low-cost prosthetic upper limb devices for adults and children in need.

  • UB leads $3.7 million project to improve MRI technology
    10/28/20

    Xiaoliang Zhang, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is leading a team of researchers to develop imaging tools that can detect damage to connective tissues, such as ligaments, tendons and bone.  

  • Reaching new heights: Mollendorf inducted into Niagara Frontier Aviation and Space Hall of Fame
    6/15/20

    Since its inception 35 years ago, the Aviation and Space Hall of Fame has served to “… honor and enshrine those men and women, who in their own unique way, contributed significantly to the history and development of aviation and aerospace on the Niagara Frontier.”  

  • UB team to improve wood stoves, save energy
    10/22/20

    UB engineers Paul DesJardin and Joseph Mollendorf are collaborators on a $2.5 million project funded by the Department of Energy to develop and test low-emission, high-efficiency residential wood-fueled heaters.

  • Turning Pain into Purpose
    7/15/20

    Brooklyn Democratic Party Leader Rodneyse Bichotte is a Lifelong Trailblazer. As Brooklyn’s Democratic Party Leader, Bichotte, is not only the first woman leader of the 42nd District, but also the first Black woman to lead a county committee in New York City and the first Haitian-American from New York City elected to the state assembly.

  • Moving the transportation industry forward
    3/4/20

    “The quality of the education you get is in your hands,” Jahmil Campbell (BS ‘07, MS ‘10 electrical engineering) regularly tells students, whether it’s in groups or one-on-one. “People are invested in you and want you to succeed, but it’s up to you to plot your own adventure.”

  • Local companies make 鈥榃iSE鈥� investment
    4/6/20

    Three local companies are doing their part to narrow the gender gap in science and engineering. M&T Bank and Verizon Media join Linde (formerly Praxair) in sponsoring UB’s Women in Science and Engineering program.