/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2019-2020/Undergraduate-Catalog-local.json
/Institutions/Messiah-College/json/2019-2020/Undergraduate-Catalog.json
Engineering (B.S.E) with General Concentration
Program Learning Outcomes
Graduates from Messiah’s Engineering program can:
- Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering.
- Design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data.
- Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
- Function on multidisciplinary teams.
- Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.
- Understand professional and ethical responsibility.
- Communicate effectively.
- Demonstrate the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
- Recognize the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of contemporary issues.
- Use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
- Integrate Christian faith, learning, and professional life.
Major Requirements
Complete the following for your major:
Four credits distributed over at 4 semesters from:
Twelve credits from the following:
General engineering requirements:
Student must choose 26 credit hours of coursework from ENGR courses beyond those required in the core curriculum. Up to two additional credit hours of ENGR 415 Engineering Project, beyond the minimum requirement of 4 credits, may count towards this total. Selected coursework must include at least one of the following course sequences:
Option 1: (7 credits)
Option 2 (8 credits)
Option 3 (11 credits)
Option 4 (8 credits)
Option 5 (14 credits)
Option 6 (11 credits)
Option 7 (7 credits)
Option 8 (8 credits)
Option 9 (7 credits)
Option 10 (3 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) |
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 |
*The choice of either a third semester of a language, a cross cultural, or a non-western studies course applies only to the Engineering major.