“It will be strongly engaged with and impact the local NYC high tech industry. It will be an integral part of the City.”
December 19th, 2011. The eyes of the world focus on New York City and Haifa as a new paradigm of higher education is born. In a dramatic press conference given by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, it is announced that Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and its Ivy League partner Cornell University have won a New York City contest to build an engineering campus with a grant of land on Roosevelt Island and $100 million for infrastructure improvements. TCII – the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute is born.
TCII will offer a unique master’s degree, which will allow students to specialize in one of three tracks or “hubs”. The first Hub is related to digital media in the networked age, the second hub is related to medical informatics and devices, and the third hub to smart buildings, urban environments and infrastructures.