The Unified Engineering Science Core curriculum offers an approach to engineering education based upon the conservation laws of mass, charge, total energy, and linear and angular momentum. The goal of this unified approach is to provide undergraduate engineering students with a deeper understanding of the handful of truely fundamental scientific principles which govern our world, and of the role they play in determining the structure of engineering, problem solving, and design. The Unified Engineering Science Core curriculum builds upon first-year physics, chemistry, and mathematics. This integrated approach can most easily be built around four sophomore level courses designed to convey the basic conservation and acconting framework that is at the heart of all engineering disciplines. However, the open-ended nature of the materials and textbooks offers remarkable flexibility for integrating and adapting the course materials into existing departmental curricula.
Engineering is a unified and coherent body of knowledge.
An engineering eduation built upon this simple premise produces engineers who can work comforatbly across and within desciplines who can readily learn and retain an expanding body of knowledge who can think, practically and conceptually. Material in each of these courses is required for a complete understanding of the other. Subsequent courses build upon the foundations established in the first two courses.