Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering

[1] The college awards about 700 degrees every year (600 BS, 90 MS, 18 PhD) and has almost 3,600 students.

[2] The college has roots going back to the introduction of Brigham Young Academy, but its more official beginning occurred when the first dean, Harvey Fletcher, organized the engineering program at BYU in 1952.

The placement of technical and industrial education in a college labeled Biological and Agricultural Sciences had arguably never been entirely logical.

The specific origins of the College of Engineering Sciences was the Mechanical Arts department.

In 1955, the department was divided into the Industrial Education Department with the focus on training teachers to either teach at technical and industrial schools or to teach vocational education, popularly known as "shop", classes in high schools or junior high school on the one hand, and the Technical and Professional Institute which in many ways functioned as a two-year technical college within the four-year university.

The College was also part of establishing the award winning BYU Center for Animation.

Some of the many research projects with which the college is involved include the MAGICC lab and the Electric Vehicle Racing team.

The MAGICC Lab is involved with designing automated devices such as robots and unmanned air vehicles.