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Polytechnic University (Brooklyn Poly, Poly, or Polytech), located in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City, is the United States' second oldest private technological university, founded in 1854.
A private, co-educational institution, Polytechnic has a distinguished history in electrical engineering, polymer chemistry, aerospace and microwave engineering. Currently, it's a leader in telecommunications, information science and technology management. The University is also known for its outstanding research centers as well as its outreach programs to encourage math and science education in New York elementary and high schools. In addition to its main campus at MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, Polytechnic offers programs at sites throughout the region, including Long Island, Manhattan and Westchester. Additionally, the University offers several programs in Israel.

MetroTech Campus

Polytechnic played a leadership role in bringing about MetroTech Center, one of the largest urban university-corporate parks in the world and the largest in the United States. Today, the 16 acre (65,000 m²), $1 billion complex is home to the University and several technology-dependent companies, including Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), New York City Police Department's 911 Center, New York City Fire Department Headquarters and the U.S. technology and operations functions of JPMorgan Chase. In 1998, a Marriott Hotel was built adjacent to MetroTech. MetroTech has proven to be a case study in university, corporate, government and private-developer cooperation, and has resulted in renewing an area that once had been a site of urban decay.
The Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology, opened in 1990 in a new building, is Polytechnic's information hub, accessible online from anywhere, on or off campus, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, wireless networks allow users with notebook computers to access the library's electronic services from anywhere on campus.

History

A group of distinguished Brooklyn businessmen drew up a charter on May 17, 1853, to establish a school for young men.
In 1854, the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute was chartered and moved into its first home at 99 Livingston Street.
In 1855, the school opened its doors September 10 to 265 young men ages nine to 17. From 1889 to 1973 it was known as "Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn".
In 1973, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn merged with New York University’s School of Engineering and Science to form Polytechnic Institute of New York.
In 1985, the school name was changed to Polytechnic University.

The official timeline for the Institute is maintained on Poly at a Glance: the Poly Timeline

Name

The University has carried a number of different names.

1854: Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute

1889: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

1973: Polytechnic Institute of New York (merged with New York University's school of engineering)

1985: Polytechnic University

NYU Merger

On August 7 2007, Polytechnic University and New York University (NYU) announced that the two institutions are engaged in merger discussions. In October, 2007, NYU’s Board of Trustees and the Board of Trustees of Polytechnic University have both approved their continuing to move forward toward a merger of NYU and Polytechnic University. Both universities will continue to draft a Definitive Agreement, the document that will more fully define the relationship between the universities.
On March 6 2008, Poly’s Board of Trustees voted to approve the Definitive Agreement to merge with New York University with the goal of Polytechnic University becoming a school of engineering and technology of NYU. The next step in the process is a review by New York State regulatory agencies which is anticipated to happen in May or June. .

Academics

Academic Labs

Integrated Digital Media Lab

Internet Security and Information Systems Lab

Student life

Polytechnic has numerous student organizations including:

Fraternities

Alpha Phi Omega A national co-ed service fraternity.

Lambda Chi Alpha A national social fraternity that has available housing.

Nu Alpha Phi An Asian-interest social fraternity.

Omega Phi Alpha A local, independent, co-ed social fraternity founded in 1986. They are not affiliated with the Omega Phi Alpha national service sorority. They were originally based on the Farmingdale, Long Island Campus. They moved to Brooklyn when the Long Island campus closed and the student body integrated with the main Brooklyn Campus.

Interest Groups

PolyBOTS The mission of the PolyBOTS is to provide an interdisciplinary environment allowing for the engineering and construction of original robotic and mechanical devices. The PolyBOTS present the means by which students have the ability to learn and excel in multiple technical and engineering fields through hands on experience.(source)
PolyBOTS is one of the University's most active student organizations in recent years. Over the past 5 years the organization has volunteered countless hours to FIRST robotics, and FIRST Lego League. They have hosted several workshops for high school students, and has been given several awards by the University and FIRST.

Polytechnic Anime Society The Polytechnic Anime Society consists of students who enjoy gaming, anime, manga, and other aspects of both popular culture and Japanese culture. Besides hosting weekly anime showings and gaming sessions in the university, PAS also hosts and participates in various outside events. They can often be found in costume attending conventions and parades, and have gone to Otakon yearly. In addition, PAS also notably hosts the yearly SpringFest, a gaming, anime, and pop culture oriented convention open to everyone. Average attendance per year is usually around 200, with tournaments, panels, and anime showings running throughout the day.

Notable alumni

Polytechnic's 37,000 alumni include business leaders, entrepreneurs and two Nobel Prize winners. Top executives from AT&T, Pfizer, Bechtel, Consolidated Edison, General Electric, IBM, Ingersoll-Rand, Jacobs Engineering, KeySpan Energy, MetLife, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Qwest, Raytheon, Stanley Works, Symbol Technologies, UNISYS, Verizon Communications and Xerox are proud of their roots at Polytechnic. Academic leaders, deans and university presidents started their careers at Polytechnic. Recent presidents of major professional societies, including the American Chemical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), are alumni.
The Polytechnic Alumni, established in 1863, promotes and maintains the welfare of Polytechnic and provides fellowship and mutually beneficial activities among Poly graduates. Officers and an international board of directors govern the polytechnic alumni. Alumni sections offer events around the country and internationally.

Martin L. Perl '48 H'96 - awarded 1995 Nobel Prize in physics.

Gertrude B. Elion H'89 - former doctoral student at Polytechnic, awarded 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine.

Joseph Jacobs - '37 '39 '42 founder of Jacobs Engineering Group

Herman Fialkov '51 - founder and President of General Transistor Corp.

Ursula Burns '80 - President, Xerox Corporation.

Robert J. Stevens- Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin.

John Trani '65 - former CEO, Stanley Works.

Arthur Martinez '60 - former CEO, Sears.

Herbert Henkel '70 '72 - CEO, Ingersoll Rand.

Israel Borovich '67 '68, '71, H'05 - Chairman, El Al Israel Airlines.

Mark Ronald '68 - former President & CEO, BAE Systems Inc.

Rajiv Mody '73 & '82 - founder & chairman, Sasken Communication Technologies

Robert Prieto '76 '77 - Chairman, Parsons Brinckerhoff

Paul Soros, '50, former CEO, Soros Associates

Richard Santulli '66 - CEO, NetJets.

Jerome Swartz '63 '69 - founder of Symbol Technologies

Shelley Harrison '66 '71 -founder of Symbol Technologies

Rachelle Friedman '71 - president of J&R Music and Computer World

Craig G. Matthews '71, former President of KeySpan Energy.

Stewart G. Nagler '63, vice chairman and CFO, MetLife

Virginia P Ruesterholz '91 - President of Verizon Telecom, division of Verizon Communications

Nicholas M. Donofrio - Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation.

Charles Waldo Haskins- founder of Haskins and Sells, which later merged with Deloitte.

Hermann Viets '65, '66, '70 - President, Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Norman Lamm - attended Polytechnic, Chancellor of Yeshiva University

Jay Greene '64 - former Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center.

Eugene Kleiner '48 H'89 - Polytechnic Advisory Trustee, among eight scientists honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp for developing and manufacturing revolutionary computer chips.

Jerome H. Lemelson - '47 '49 inventor

Jasper Kane '28 - Pfizer scientist and creator of the deep tank fermentation method for mass-production of Penicillin in 1941 for the U.S. war effort.

Joseph Owades '44, '50 - Brewing pioneer, inventor of Lite beer.

William B. Kouwenhoven, inventor closed-chest cardiac defibrillator, recipient Edison Medal

John Gilbert '53 - inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon

Thomas Kelly '58 - scientist, father of lunar module

George W. Melville - The U.S. Navy has named two ships in honor of him: Melville (Destroyer Tender #2, later AD-2) and the oceanographic research ship Melville (AGOR-14), 1969]]– as of 2007|present.

Charles Camarda '74 - NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery. Camarda earned his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Polytechnic in 1974.

Paolo A. Nespoli, Ms Aerospace engineering '89-Italian astronaut,mission specialist at STS-120 Space Shuttle mission.

Yehuda (Leo) Levi previous Rector at the Jerusalem College of Technology; author of several books on optics, and on science and Judaism.

O. Winston Link '37 - Pioneering photographer.

Chi Mui '80 - First Asian-American Mayor of San Gabriel, CA.

Edward Everett Horton '08 - notable Character Actor, appeared in The Front Page, Top Hat, Here Comes Mr. Jordan & Pocketful of Miracles.

Martin Graham '47, '52 - Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley and the designer of the Rice Institute Computer.

Ronald Silverman '79, '90 - Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

F. Augustus Heinze - one of the most colorful entrepreneurs in Montana history.

Martin Pope '50 - a physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University. A list of the notable Polythinkers are officially maintained at Polythinking Innovation Gallery

Notable faculty

David and Gregory Chudnovsky – famous mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989. They now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing (IMAS) at Polytechnic

Gordon Gould – Inventor of the laser

Maurice Karnaugh – A inventor of Karnaugh Maps, or K-Maps, while at Bell Labs. He was a professor at the Westchester campus from 1980-1999 and is now retired

Paul Levinson - author of The Plot To Save Socrates, media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor and other TV and radio. He was Visiting Professor at the Philosophy and Technology Study Center at Polytechnic, 1987-1988.

Rudolph Marcus – Former Polytechnic Professor awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry

Herman F. Mark – Founder of the Polymer Research Institute

Donald Othmer – Co-Author, Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Eli Pearce – President, American Chemical Society

Murray Rothbard – Former economics professor, key figure in libertarian movement

Ernst Weber – Founder of the Microwave Research Institute

Joel Snyder - IEEE President 2001

Joel Wein

Parke Kolbe

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