In 2023, Yale announced a historic series of infrastructure investments that would transform the face and trajectory of its School of Engineering & Applied Science and advance the university’s strategy for hastening breakthroughs. Thanks to donors, including a bequest from John W. Mitchell ’60, Yale Engineering is dramatically expanding its faculty and facilities.

“A robust slate of major improvements will allow Yale Engineering to continue growing and will enrich both Yale and our surrounding community, furthering our pursuit of real-world impact and intensifying the spirit of innovation in the heart of Yale’s campus,” says Jeffrey Brock, dean of Yale Engineering.

The combination of new and renovated spaces will be designed to manifest and reinforce the school’s culture of innovation and collaboration, aiding Yale’s broad effort to address grand challenges of the twenty-first century, from access to clean drinking water to reliable artificial intelligence. Collaborative spaces for faculty and communal gathering areas will sit alongside cutting-edge laboratory and instructional facilities, helping nurture new ideas and generative partnerships.

The overall project will also serve Yale’s sustainability goals: buildings would be comprehensively renovated or demolished, and new structures built to Yale’s zero-carbon-ready standard. A geothermal network would provide efficient, clean, and resilient thermal energy.

The revitalization of lower Hillhouse will complement work on the Physical Sciences and Engineering Building, which will be located on the north end of Science Hill. That building—one of the largest facilities projects in university history—will house numerous engineering and science initiatives, including quantum computing, quantum engineering, and materials science.