Welcome
At San Francisco State's College of Science and Engineering, students
find a faculty that encourage them to ignore traditional barriers. The
faculty of the College are committed to creating and maintaining connections
with our students, other scientists and engineers, and to the scientific
community of the Bay Area. In so doing, we act as the vital link connecting
students to the world of science.
The
college is committed to the philosophy that the best education of its
students comes through involvement in research and the solution of real-world
problems.
To carry out that objective, we must recruit and retain outstanding working
scientists and engineers to our faculty, and be able to offer them and
their students the most advanced facilities and equipment possible.
In addition to our active research faculty, we have many state-of-the-art facilities and research centers that offer unique research experiences for students at all levels, from undergraduate to post-doc: the Conservation Genetics Laboratory, the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, an electron microscope facility, computational chemistry and visualization laboratory, a DNA analysis facility, a Thin Film Laboratory, a molecular biology core facility, the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, and an Alpha 3000 internet server dubbed TheCity.
A
Setting That's Ideal
Few places in this country can match the San Francisco Bay Area for the
depth and caliber of scientific and technological research. The College
endeavors to help its students interact with this distinctive environment--to
gather the educational benefits from it, and then to make their own contributions
to it through research, internships, cooperative education and other training
placements, and shared facilities.
We offer a strong and diverse faculty, many of whom are experts from industry or the research community, with a growing staff of minority and women professors and mentors, an important component of an urban university. And many of our students are first-generation Americans. Many are the first in their families to go to college. More than half of our students are members of minority groups, and one quarter are from groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering and the sciences.
Providing the means for people of exceptionally diverse backgrounds to come into their own is a major part of SFSU's identity as an urban university. The College of Science and Engineering has been a leader in increasing the number of underrepresented minority students in the sciences and mathematics-based fields, from elementary to graduate school.