Carnegie Mellon West

Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley

Front entrance of Building 23
Motto	"My heart is in the work" (Andrew Carnegie)
Type	Private, Branch Campus
Established	2002
President	Subra Suresh
Provost	Farnam Jahanian
Location	Mountain View, California,  United States 37°24′38″N 122°03′35″W / 37.41045°N 122.05975°W / 37.41045; -122.05975Coordinates: 37°24′38″N 122°03′35″W / 37.41045°N 122.05975°W / 37.41045; -122.05975
Colors	Cardinal, Gray, and Tartan Plaid
Nickname	Tartans, CMU West, CMUSV
Mascot	Scotty the Scottie Dog
Website	sv.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley is a branch campus of Carnegie Mellon University located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It was established in 2002 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. The campus offers full-time and part-time professional Masters programs in Electrical And Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Software Management, various bi-coastal (split-time between Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley) Masters programs in Information Technology, and a bi-coastal Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering. One key differentiator between programs in the traditional Pittsburgh campus and the new Silicon Valley campus is a new focus on project-centered learning by doing approach to education.

After years of planning from the Pittsburgh campus, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley opened in September 2002 under the name "Carnegie Mellon University - West Campus" to an original class of 56 students. Carnegie Mellon had always had a reputation for graduating bright students in engineering and technology, so it seemed only natural to establish a physical presence in the Silicon Valley, the epicenter of entrepreneurship, technology and innovation.James H. Morris, the Dean of the School of Computer Science at the Pittsburgh campus, was instrumental in establishing the West Coast initiative and served as the new campus' first Dean.Raj Reddy, a Turing Award recipient and computer science professor at the Pittsburgh campus, was the school's first director. In 2008, the university's name was changed to Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley to better reflect the proximity and opportunity to Silicon Valley. In 2009, Dean Morris ended his appointment, and the College of Engineering (also known as Carnegie Institute of Technology or "CIT") at Carnegie Mellon University partnered with the Silicon Valley campus to bring more resources and a stronger connection to the main campus. In 2012, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley celebrated its 10th anniversary. In just its first 10 years, CMUSV has assumed a leadership position in the Silicon Valley with students, faculty and alumni playing an integral part of the Valley ecosystem. The campus has graduated over 600 students, adding to the over 6000 Carnegie Mellon alumni working in the Bay Area.