1.   Among engineering schools, Stanford comes out on top, with CalTech, MIT, Illinois and California-Berkeley tied for second.

2.   An engineer by training, Gilliland successfully pushed the idea through the University of Missouri system, which already has two well-regarded engineering schools in Rolla and Columbia.

3.   As many as half the graduates of the most-prestigious engineering schools in the country are natives of other lands, industry officials say.

4.   Boston University, with Silber then its new president, soon signed on for help in pursuing funds for an engineering school.

5.   A year later she started engineering school at the University of Oklahoma, the only woman in her class.

6.   Charles was in the engineering school.

7.   Dima, who had completed studies at a railroad engineering school, made the cut.

8.   Dreier, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., held degrees from Harvard and its engineering school.

9.   Eric J. Furda, executive director of undergraduate admissions at Columbia, said the biggest declines were in applications from California and applications to the engineering school.

10.   Engineering schools pay no attention to that.