Stanford University School of Engineering

List of deans

1. Theodore J. Hoover
2. Samuel B. Morris
3. Frederick E. Terman
4. Joseph M. Pettit
5. William M. Kays
6. James F. Gibbons
7. John L. Hennessy
8. James D. Plummer
9. Persis Drell
10. Thomas Kenny
11. Jennifer Widom

    Current departments at the school

• Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Computer Science
• Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Management Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

History

• Civil Engineering, one of the original university departments, later to become Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering, taught as a subject, prior to being established in 1894
• Mechanical Engineering, one of the original university departments
• Mining and Metallurgy, established in 1918 and eventually disbanded in 1945

• Aeronautics and Astronautics, started as Aeronautical Engineering in 1958
• Chemical Engineering in 1961
• Computer Science in 1965 in the School of Humanities and Sciences, but moved to the School of Engineering in 1985
• Materials Science and Engineering in 1961
• Management Science and Engineering in the 1950s
• Bioengineering in 2002