Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering

If you decide to pursue a degree in interdisciplinary engineering you will be preparing yourself for an interesting and challenging career that can provide opportunities for involvement in cutting edge design that crosses engineering disciplines.Your educational program will consist primarily of course work in the following areas:

Basic Sciences and Engineering:  You will build a solid foundation in the basic sciences and math: chemistry, physics and mathematics.To this, you will add basic courses in different engineering fields and computer science. These will be courses in electrical engineering, computer engineering, engineering mechanics, mechanical engineering and computer science.These courses will provide a firm foundation on which to build your technical specialty track.

Technical Specialty Track:  Your technical specialty track consists of 21 credit hours (typically seven, three hour courses) that you can choose, within some guidelines, to meet specific goals that you may have.Typically, these courses are chosen from two engineering fields, or one engineering field and one science field, to prepare you to work on interdisciplinary problems of your choice.It is often the case that the most innovative and interesting engineering work occurs at the boundary between two disciplines and that engineers prepared in only one of the classic disciplines are less well equipped to work on these problems than a person schooled in particular aspects of both underlying disciplines.The interdisciplinary engineering program gives students the opportunity to get this type of education.  For a list of tracks, click here.

Engineering Design:  The third component of the interdisciplinary engineering program is an extraordinarily strong design component that is woven throughout the program, from the Engineering Design with Computer Applications course required of all students through sophomore courses in Design Representations and Design Perceptions, a junior course in System Modeling and Simulation and a junior design project course, and culminating in a senior design methodology course and a capstone design project.Throughout, the emphasis is not on just a "paper" design, but actually building a working prototype.Real engineers design products and make them work; we think graduates of this program should have that experience, too.