The Block Party is an annual neighborhood celebration hosted by the Cooper Union Alumni Association. Various Cooper student organizations like the Engineering and Art Student Councils, Queer & Allies, and Cooper Rad.io set up booths at the event. Photos by Kelly Occhiuzzo.
What classes will you be teaching at Cooper this year?
Right now, I’m teaching material science for chemical engineers which is a sophomore class. I also teach the senior separation process principles class. In the spring, my plan is to teach a graduate-level drug delivery class and the second semester of the senior lab.
This past summer the School of Architecture renovated the computer lab, formally known as the Paul Laux Digital Architecture Studio, on the seventh floor of the Foundation Building. The renovations were spurred by a $2 million donation given to the school about ten years ago. The donor gave the money with the hopes that it would “have a significant transformation for the School of Architecture.”
By Evan Bubniak (ME ‘21) and Matthew Grattan (ChE ‘19)\
Since the announcement in 2013, The Cooper Union has admitted four tuition-paying classes. That is to say: Barring fifth-year architecture students, every undergraduate at Cooper pays tuition, and the first-ever class of tuition-payers in Cooper’s century-and-a-half history will graduate in the spring.
Cooper is not—and never has been—the typical American college experience. Yet, is it possible that tuition has changed our institution? Have we lost something beyond the full-tuition scholarship? Or conversely, have we gained anything?
Doug is the lab manager for the mechanical engineering labs on the seventh floor of the NAB. His role involves helping students with the more practical side of their courses, like fabricating things for ME-211 Design & Prototyping and assisting lab work for ME-352 Process Control.