The UST Engineering Club gives students a chance to meet with others with an interest in engineering. The club invites engineers from industry to campus to discuss interesting projects and what engineers really do. In addition, the club sponsors a service project, field trips and social events. The University of St. Thomas has excellent laboratory and computer resources, which are available to all science students. Local companies often open their facilities to St. Thomas students for tours.
All computers are capable of browsing the Internet via a high speed link.
In addition, the department is equipped with a local engineering computer network and special software which is also available to students in courses and for projects. Available software includes AutoCad, SolidWorks, EZFeatureMill, DesignExpert for DOE, PSpice for circuit simulation, National Instruments Labview and data acquisition software, Mathematica, Matlab with Simulink and Controls toolbox, Visual Studio, and Directsoft for PLC programming. St. Thomas has standardized on Microsoft Office so programs as Word, Excel and PowerPoint are available all across campus as well as in Engineering. The job prospects for engineers are excellent, especially those with both technical and managerial skills. The federal government has predicted that 113,000 new manufacturing engineering jobs will be created between 1990 and 2005.