The school consists of fourteen buildings on the College Park campus that cover over 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m2).

Although no formal engineering program existed at the Maryland Agricultural College, the early curriculum included surveying, construction, mechanics, and electricity courses.

[4] The first faculty member appointed to teach in the department was Harry Gwinner, and John Hanson Mitchell was the first student awarded a B.S.

[5] When the United States joined World War II in 1941, the College of Engineering faced many changes.

In 1943, the college created an Army Specialized Training Program to provide students with language and advanced engineering skills.

[3] The College of Engineering also shortened the duration of its academic programs to accelerate training for technical branches of the Army.

[3] Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, each department established a Ph.D. program, further strengthening the college's growing reputation as a research institution.

[3] The College of Engineering grew during the 1960s and 70s as the United States placed more emphasis on technology and development during the Cold War.

[3] In 1970, the college instituted a Cooperative Engineering Education Program to help students incorporate employment and career development into their field of academic study.

[3] Student enrollment in the College of Engineering expanded throughout the 1970s and 1980s in response to the Very Large Scale Integration revolution.

[6] In recognition of this gift, the Board of Regents renamed the college the A. James Clark School of Engineering.

[3] This same year, the Clark School also established the Office of Advanced Engineering Education (OAEE).

[2] Under his guidance, the Clark School continued to build a reputation in research, teaching, and student engagement.

AIM Lab Dedicated to the characterization of the structure and composition of a broad spectrum of hard and soft materials and biological systems with nanometer resolution.

[9] Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory Dedicated to research and development in the area of biologically inspired design and robotics.

The lab seeks to distil the fundamental sensing and feedback principles that govern locomotive behavior in small organisms that will enable the next generation of autonomous microsystems.

Students come from multi-disciplinary engineering programs and pursue applied research, especially in the prototype development of biologically inspired autonomous vehicles for civilian and military applications.

[11] Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) is a research facility focused on risk assessment, management, and mitigation for electronic products and systems.

CALCE was created in 1985 with support from the United States National Science Foundation as a University Industry Cooperative Research Center.

The facility has performed aerodynamics testing over 2,200 times on objects ranging from airplanes to cars to bobsleds.

[14] MakerBot Innovation Center 3D printing space open to students, faculty, staff, and community members.

[17] Radiation Facilities Includes a training nuclear reactor, a dry cell gamma vault irradiator, and a 10 MEV electron linear accelerator to support research and teaching.

Facility provides robots for manufacturing and medical applications as well as for mechanical and electrical rapid prototyping.