Transfer students who do not immediately qualify for a professional program and all new freshman engineering students must begin their UW-Platteville studies in the General Engineering department. Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, and technology. Industrial engineers combine knowledge of mathematics, physical sciences, and social sciences with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design. At one time, industrial engineers were employed mainly in manufacturing, however, today they are employed by both manufacturing and service industries, which has increased the demand for industrial engineers. Mechanical engineers serve such diverse areas as energy, mechanical systems, robotics, automation, environment, transportation, heating and cooling systems, bioengineering, manufacturing systems, and electronics.
Mechanical engineering is an exciting and challenging profession for men and women.
Mathematics Students majoring in Mathematics at UW-Platteville must take a set of core required courses, as well as other courses selected with regard to career goals. Mathematics majors who plan to work in business or industry after graduation choose their electives from applied mathematics courses such as differential equations, numerical analysis, probability, and statistics. Mathematics majors planning to work toward an advanced degree in statistics include junior-senior level probability and statistics courses among their mathematics electives. Prepharmacy The prepharmacy program at UW-Platteville involves two years of study in a selected group of courses covering a wide variety of subject matter. The courses provide the necessary science background as well as on understanding of people and institutions to insure that students completing the program succeed in pharmacy school and in their practice of pharmacy.