While most graduates embark on careers in engineering practice, men and women with engineering majors find the baccalaureate program excellent preparation for other fields as diverse as law, medicine, business and government. An engineering education develops analytical and quantitative thinking, a critical but optimistic approach to problem solving, and the habit of self-directed future learning.
Graduates make successful transitions to a wide variety of different careers.
The graduate has a thorough understanding of how materials, energy, and information can be adapted to humanity's needs and desires. This is developed through the study of physical science, mathematics, engineering science, engineering design, humanities, social science and practice. It is strongly recommended that one unit of physics and one unit of chemistry be presented. Students transferring into the college must have cumulative grade-point averages of 2.500 for all previous college work. The criteria for achieving advanced standing are available in Room 200 of the Engineering Bldg., in departmental offices , or on the College of Engineering and Mines Home Page .