Princeton Engineering is undergoing major growth.
In addition to welcoming record numbers of undergraduates, the school has significantly grown its faculty and number of graduate students. Princeton is making major investments in interdisciplinary engineering research areas, strengthening ties to industry, and fueling a robust and inclusive innovation ecosystem. Each of these initiatives enable a common goal: Catalyze solutions to humanity’s most pressing problems and prepare new generations of students to do the same.
Supporting this work, two major new buildings recently opened and one is moving into a construction phase:
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Opened January 2026
Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute
Opened December 2025
Schmidt Hall
A renovation of the current Guyot Hall will be named Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall and will be home to the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy. Estimated 2029 completion.
Chemical and Biological Engineering. Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute.
These two units have moved to a neighborhood between the Engineering Quadrangle and Princeton Stadium. The neighborhood is shared with new buildings for environmental sciences.
A rendering of the new home for the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute.
Looking southeast from Prospect Avenue toward the new building for chemical and biological engineering.
The area on the left is the Sarofim Pavilion.
A computer rendering of Commons, a shared space in the new neighborhood.
Schmidt Hall
The historic Guyot Hall will be renovated and expanded to create Eric and Wendy Schmidt Hall as a new home for computer science, the Center for Information Technology Policy, and other centers.
Plans to build new spaces for the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are also underway.