Engineering (B.S.E) with General Concentration
The general engineering option provides considerable flexibility for you to customize your experience. In addition to the various combinations of engineering courses permitted by the program, you may also wish to couple the engineering degree with a minor or other area of study. For example, minors in physics, chemistry and business administration are typical complements to the general engineering degree. You may also choose this program in order to pursue Messiah’s pre-med advising option or pre-law minor.
Program Learning Outcomes
Program Educational Objectives
- Graduates will be technically competent in their Engineering specialty area and able to perform essential engineering functions in their career of choice.
- Furthermore, graduates will continue to learn and hone competencies necessary to their career through graduate education, participation in professional activities/societies, or other means relevant to their work.
- Graduates will influence or lead inter-disciplinary and diverse design teams to generate creative solutions that meet societal challenges.
- Graduates will conduct themselves in a manner consistent with the Christian faith, pursuing their work with a servant’s heart and a keen awareness of social responsibility.
Student Outcomes
Graduates from Messiah’s Engineering program demonstrate:
- an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
- an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
- an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
- an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
- an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
- an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
- an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
Major Requirements
Complete the following for your major:
Four credits distributed over multiple semesters from:
The sequence of the required four credits of
ENGR 415 is typically 1-1-1-1 over the last four semesters in the program of study. Alternative sequencing must be approved by the Engineering Department chair.
Eleven to twelve credits from the following:
General engineering requirements:
Student must choose 27 credit hours of coursework from ENGR courses that includes completion of at least one upper-division content track below. In addition to completing one track, students may fulfill what is needed to achieve 27 credits with any 300 or 400 level ENGR courses beyond the core requirements and those in the track chosen. Some course options have prerequisites. ENGR 415 (up to 2 credits) may count toward this block once one has completed the 4 credits of this course required for the Core).
Water Resources track: (7 credits)
Embedded Systems Design track (8 credits)
Structural Design track (11 credits)
Robotics track (8 credits)
Electronics track (14 credits)
Thermal-Fluid Sciences track (11 credits)
Mechanical Design track (7 credits)
Biomedical track (7-8 credits)
Three to four credits from the following (3-4):
Environmental track (7 credits)
ENGR 353 | Environmental Engineering | 4 |
ENGR 451 | Water and Wastewater Management | 3 |
| OR | |
ENGR 453 | Hazardous Waste and Air Pollution Management | 3 |
Manufacturing track (7 credits)
QuEST Requirements
Experiential Learning requirement (ENGR 302) |
met/major |
QuEST requirements |
Credits |
First Year Seminar |
3 |
Oral Communication |
3 |
Created and Called for Community (W) |
3 |
Mathematical Sciences (MATH 111) |
met/major |
Laboratory Science (CHEM 105, PHYS 211) |
met/major |
Science, Technology & the World |
waived |
Two of the following (6 credits total):
Social Science
European History
United States History |
6 |
Literature |
3 |
Philosophy and Religion |
3 |
Arts |
3 |
First Semester of Language |
3 |
Second Semester of Language |
3 |
One of the following*:
Third Semester of Language
Cross Cultural
Non-Western Studies |
2 or 3 |
Bible |
3 |
Christian Beliefs |
3 |
Wellness course |
1 |
Ethics, World Views or Pluralism |
3 |
QuEST requirements |
42-43 |
Major requirements (inclusive of concentration) |
81 |
Total credits |
123-124 |