And TEAC sponsors a summer internship program which strives to find a placement for every Engineering major during the summer between the junior and senior year. Informal faculty mentoring has long been a source of support for new Engineering students and graduates alike. Every Engineering student takes laboratory courses that illustrate the principles learned in the classroom and introduce modern methods of experimentation, data collection, and data analysis. The department maintains laboratories in the areas of electrical circuits and systems, digital systems, VLSI design, mechanical systems, materials science, optical diagnostics and communications, electrophysiology, and digital signal processing. The department also maintains a full machine shop supporting student research and design projects in mechanical engineering.
Every laboratory is equipped with modern computers and software design tools.
Connecting all dorm rooms and faculty offices, this network provides on-line access to the Trinity library's 900,000 books and periodicals. Trinity's membership in the Internet extends each student's reach to a national and even international level. If a real measure of a school's merit lies in its graduates' success, then an Engineering degree from Trinity College holds one in extremely good stead. Recent Trinity alumni have gone on to such prestigious Engineering graduate schools as Stanford, Duke, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Rochester Institute of Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Northeastern, and the Universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Virginia. Trinity graduates moving directly into the job market find themselves in demand.