Israel's Technion, Cornell tapped for NYC tech center

SAN JOSE, Calif. – New York City officials selected Cornell and Israel's Technion as the first partners in a $2 billion effort to build a science and engineering campus on the city's Roosevelt Island.

The two universities will help build a two-million square-foot campus that could serve 2,500 students and 280 faculty by 2043. It aims to boost by 70 percent the number of graduate engineering students in the area, according to a report in EE Times.

Cornell will offer master and doctoral degrees in areas such as computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and information science and engineering at the campus as well as jointly accredited master of applied sciences degrees with Technion. New York officials are holding ongoing discussions with Carnegie Mellon, Columbia and a New York University-led consortium about participating in the project. More here >>

SOURCE:  eetimes.com

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