NYCEDC

Mar
17

The Engineers are Coming

In December, Mayor Bloomberg issued a challenge to help diversify the City’s economy and boost the growing technology sector by developing a new applied science and engineering research campus in New York City.

Since then, university representatives from four continents have visited the City to learn more about the initiative. We held an information session at the New York Stock Exchange and hosted a reception with Mayor Bloomberg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, breakfast in the Governor’s Room at City Hall, and tours of the potential sites: the Navy Hospital Campus at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Goldwater Hospital Campus on Roosevelt Island near Manhattan, sites on Governor’s Island, Farm Colony on Staten Island as well as a number of privately-owned sites.

Governor’s Island, one of the possible sites for the new applied sciences campus.

Needless to say, the interest has been palpable. This week, we formally received 18 proposals from 27 academic institutions around the world to develop the new applied sciences campus. The institutions that submitted the responses are…

Åbo Akadmi University, Finland
Amity University, India
Carnegie Mellon University with Steiner Studios
Cornell University
Columbia University and the City University of New York
The Cooper Union
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
New York University, Carnegie Mellon, the City University of New York, the University of Toronto, and IBM
The New York Genome Center, with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the Jackson Laboratory
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stanford University
The Stevens Institute of Technology
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
The University of Chicago
The University of Warwick, United Kingdom

The responses include proposals for hundreds of millions of dollars in private investment and significant increases to the number of applied sciences and engineering students to be based in New York City. After reviewing the responses, the City will issue a Request for Proposals by this summer and will aim to select a proposal by the end of 2011. Read the press release for more details on what’s to come.