New Strategic Priorities Fueled the Clark School in 2024

dean's messages

Reimagining how we teach to enhance learning. Accelerating research, discovery, innovation, and impact. Empowering our community. Building partnerships to enhance our impact. In 2024, those strategic priorities helped fuel the Clark School.

From drones that increase access to medicine and electric power infrastructure built for the future to a new center for space research and more, our research portfolio expanded in 2024 to address more of society’s grand challenges, offering research and technical solutions to make the world a safer, more sustainable, and more opportunistic place. It wasn’t just our world-renowned faculty and post-graduate students creating these solutions. It was our undergraduate students, too. Robust experiential learning opportunities are part of what makes the Clark School unique. At our Capstone Design Expo in May, more than 500 undergrads showcased prototypes to solve challenges in infrastructure, mobility, health care, and more.

In 2024, when our nation had needs—like growing its capacity and capability to produce semiconductors domestically—it came to Maryland Engineering. When our local community and state had needs, they came to us, too. We proudly translated research to create businesses based on Clark School research such as Ion Storage Systems and InventWood; health care solutions in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Medicine; and hands-on activities that excited students in Prince George’s County schools about engineering. We look forward to expanding these efforts with The Village at Mondawmin in Baltimore, home to our new partnership in West Baltimore to help inspire kids in the community through a new makerspace.

Terp engineers build on the discoveries and knowledge of those who came before us, and leave a legacy that will benefit those who come after us. In 2025, we hope you will partner with us to innovate for the public good.

Sincerely,

Samuel Graham, Jr. (he/him/his)

Dean and Nariman Farvardin Professor

Published January 2, 2025