Thayer School of Engineering

at , Hanover , 03755 United States

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Thayer School of Engineering is a graduate school at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, whose faculty also double as the undergraduate Department of Engineering Sciences. The school was established in 1867 with funds from Brig. Gen. Sylvanus Thayer, known for his work in establishing an engineering curriculum at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Located in a two-building complex along the Connecticut River on the Dartmouth campus, the Thayer School today offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as dual-degree programs with other local institutions. Over 350 students are currently enrolled at Thayer, overseen by a faculty of 45 and preceded by over 4,000 living alumni of the school.HistoryThayer School is named for Sylvanus Thayer, a Dartmouth alumnus from the class of 1807. Thayer was known as "the father of West Point" for his sixteen-year superintendency at the United States Military Academy, where he developed an extensive engineering curriculum unlike any other in the United States at the time. After thirty years of professional service in the Army Corps of Engineers, Thayer endowed $70,000 to Dartmouth College in 1867 for the establishment of a school of engineering, initially called the Thayer School of Civil Engineering.

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Thayer School of Engineering is Hanover based place and this enity listed in College & University category. 03755.