Vision

What does the beginning of Thayer School’s next 150 years look like?

Expansion.

The world needs more of the type of bold thinkers that Thayer School produces.

Growth of engineering is a priority in the academic vision that President Phil Hanlon ’77 has forwarded for all of Dartmouth.

Expansion comes at a time of upward trajectory for Thayer School, including:

achieving gender parity among undergraduate majors—a national first
an entrepreneurial faculty, with one in three professors having founded companies—among the highest, if not the highest, rates in the nation
receiving the National Academy of Engineering’s Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
increased engineering-in-medicine research housed at the Williamson Translational Research Building at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
record levels of student enrollments
record numbers of non-majors taking engineering courses
increasing demand—from majors and non-majors alike—for engineering courses

A New Building Shared with Computer Science

A new state-of-the-art building linked to MacLean Engineering Sciences Center will house both a growing Thayer School and Dartmouth’s Department of Computer Science, bringing together disciplines that share a language of increasing global importance: the language of technology.

Along with the Tuck School of Business and Dartmouth’s new Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, the co-located Thayer School and Computer Science will transform the West End of the Dartmouth campus into an unrivaled center of integrated teaching, research, and entrepreneurship focused on solving global problems and improving the human condition.

New Opportunities for Students and Faculty to Better the World

Expanding Thayer School will allow us to:

give all Dartmouth students the opportunity to enhance their liberal arts education with our distinctive problem-solving skills to prepare them for life and leadership in a technology-driven world
offer more experiential courses to majors and non-majors alike
double the size of the faculty from 50 to 100 to optimize class sizes for experiential learning and increase the impact of our research
provide cutting-edge research facilities and funding to attract more leading professors from across the world
double the number of graduate students empowered with a Thayer education
grow our PhD Innovation Program to prepare more doctoral students to turn their research discoveries into world-improving technologies
facilitate novel educational, research, and entrepreneurial collaborations between engineering, medicine, computer science, and business to solve global problems and better the lives of people throughout the world

“Our exciting vision ensures Dartmouth’s sustainable and long-lasting impact on the world,” says Thayer School Overseer Barry MacLean ’60 Th’61, who has donated $25 million—the largest gift in Thayer’s history—toward an additional engineering building and professorships.

“There are very few rewards in life as great as making a positive impact on the people, organizations, and world around us,” says Terry G. McGuire Th’82, chair of Thayer School’s Board of Overseers and leader of the expansion efforts.

“With the world on pace to see increasingly dramatic technology-driven change, we need more of the type of bold thinkers that the Thayer School produces,” says Dean Joseph J. Helble.

To learn more about how to support Thayer’s expansion, please contact Linnell.J.Bickford@dartmouth.edu.