Since 1977, the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics has been one of the leading applied mathematics programs in the world.

Our department is uniquely housed within Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering. This allows our highly interdisciplinary faculty and students to connect with engineers and scientists across departments, schools, and institutions, applying mathematics to interesting problems presented by the world around us. Specifically, we focus in engineering and in the physical, biological, and social sciences, working to solve existing problems and inventing new mathematical methods to anticipate and meet the challenges of new problems as they arise.