Engineering Trends maintains the largest and most comprehensive set of databases covering engineering education degrees, enrollments, faculty numbers and research expenditures. These databases currently contain over 200,000 records, many with up to 500 data fields. (Each record contains the annual data for an individual college or engineering department/discipline within a college.) We add about 6000 new records every year.

Data included are from the annual surveys of engineering colleges conducted by the American Society for Engineering Education, the Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies and the National Center for Education Statistics of the US Department of Education.  The databases have been designed to find, filter and sort efficiently in order to respond rapidly to inquiries and to facilitate studies, analyses and report preparation.

Database operations are designed to carry out operations on fractional data (e.g., percentage of total degrees in a specific engineering field) as well as the actual data.  In addition, these operations can be carried out on "data per faculty member" which are useful in comparing programs of different size.

Our databases include 25 engineering departments/disciplines in approximately 350 engineering colleges.  The data are compiled in a manner that characterizes important and growing engineering fields (e.g., "computer" is subdivided into computer science, computer engineering and computer science and engineering and "bio" is subdivided into biological engineering and biomedical engineering), thus providing information not available elsewhere.

For individual engineering colleges:

• Number of faculty (from 1966); ethnicity and gender data (from 2001)

• BS, MS and PhD degrees, including gender data (from 1966); ethnicity and foreign national data (from 1974)

• BS, MS and PhD full-time enrollments (from 1967); BS part-time (from 1966); MS and PhD part-time (from 1996)

• Research expenditures within colleges (data for engineering college centers, institutes and laboratories are indicated separately) (from 1966)

• Degrees, enrollments and research expenditures per faculty member (from 1966)

For individual engineering departments/disciplines:

• Number of faculty (from 1966); gender data (from 2001)

• BS, MS and PhD degrees (from 1966); gender, ethnicity, foreign national data (from 1996)

• BS, MS and PhD full-time and part-time enrollments (from 1993); gender data (from 1993)

• Research expenditures (from 1966)

• Degrees, enrollments and research expenditures per faculty member (from 1966)

For US national engineering totals:

• BS, MS and PhD degree totals, including gender data (from 1944); ethnicity and foreign national data (from 1972)

• BS, MS and PhD degree totals for individual engineering departments/disciplines (most from 1944); gender, ethnicity and foreign national data (from 1973)

• BS full-time and part-time enrollment totals (from 1945); first to fifth year enrollments (from 1944); gender data (from 1967); ethnicity and foreign national data (from 1976)

• BS enrollments for departments/disciplines; full-time (from 1967); part-time (from 1996); gender and ethnicity (from 1974); foreign national (from 1979)

• MS and PhD full-time and part-time enrollment totals (from 1945); gender and ethnicity (from 1976); foreign national (from 1977)

• MS and PhD enrollments for departments/disciplines; full-time (from 1945); part-time (from 1996); gender, ethnicity and foreign national (from 1977)

• Research expenditures (from 1966)

Engineering Trends databases are edited during our compilation. Obvious errors in reported data of all types are corrected, if possible, and data inconsistent (but not correctable) with those of prior years are noted (or deleted in extreme instances). In all cases, alterations of original survey data are noted within the databases. Special care is given to separating departmental and discipline data in surveys where respondents were permitted latitude in data submission.