Folks, why is everyone completely ignoring the Molecular Engineering Institute? It will be offering a bachelor’s degree effective 2014-2015. It already offers a minor. Admittedly, UChicago will not have in the near future an engineering school offering the traditional classifications, but if you read what the MEI will be doing, there is strong overlap with chemical, biomedical, metallurgical, and mechanical programs. It actually sounds pretty exciting to me, and if I were starting out as a potential engineering student, I would be very interested.
To get some background on how and why UChicago has decided to pursue engineering in this fashion, please see 25:15 minutes into the YouTube clip below where former Provost Rosenbaum (now President at Caltech) talks about the process of building the MEI at UChicago.