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Engineering Innovation and Leadership (E-Lead) is an honors-style flexible engineering degree designed to provide students with a diverse foundation of engineering knowledge seamlessly blended with leadership development, entrepreneurship/innovative skills, and an understanding of business processes. Our Leadership philosophy is based on the development of character, competence, and capacity. These three leadership pillars shape how students mature and progress in the program towards becoming leaders who influence in their workplace, community, and society. 

The BS in Engineering Science (Business) program equips students to tackle complex societal challenges through an innovation-driven, interdisciplinary curriculum. It combines engineering and business fundamentals—like design, AI, BI, accounting, and supply chain—in hands-on, project-based courses taught in makerspaces.

The BS in Engineering Science (Microelectronics) begins with core studies in math, coding, digital design, and physics, alongside engineering problem-solving and design thinking. In later years, students explore tools used in microelectronics design and fabrication, culminating in a capstone focused on semiconductor testing and manufacturing.

This unique interdisciplinary program offers broad flexibility and a student-guided focus to provide a customizable degree for students, so they may optimize their opportunities to enter the workforce, including emergent entrepreneurial businesses. The program aims to develop students into engineering leaders who utilize a systems-perspective to collaborate across disciplines and design innovative, human-centered solutions to local, national, and global challenges. It combines a core encompassing math, sciences, business, communication, and engineering courses from all disciplines along with a secondary field that could include traditional existing engineering areas, or focus on grand challenges such as personalized learning, cybersecurity, and water accessibility.

Integrated Engineering is a work-based program that trains students to be Integrated Engineers who can work across discipline boundaries to solve complex problems and create innovative solutions. Students gain knowledge and skills from traditional engineering disciplines like mechanical and electrical engineering as well as cross-cutting coursework in areas like programming, entrepreneurship, systems engineering, design, and professionalism. After completing two years of core coursework, students complete an academy semester to prepare for the co-op/internship phase of the program. During these work terms over the final two years of the program, students are able to work 40-45 hours a week as an engineering intern for a company while attending school.

This program brings together engineering and other areas of study (non-engineering knowledge), or by combining multiple areas of engineering in a unique way that are currently not being served by a traditional field of engineering. As a first-choice destination for those whose interests and abilities lie across academic disciplines, the program offers considerable flexibility and permits students to develop their own individual plan of study or choose from nine (9) established plans of study that combine several academic disciplines around a focused concentration. 

The interdisciplinary engineering program allows students to develop a unique skill sets and specialize in areas that may not be provided in a traditional department degree program. Such specializations may be driven by emerging technical fields or by a student’s desire to have an immersive interdisciplinary experience. Multidisciplinary students can design their own program of study within program guidelines to gain knowledge and specialized experience that aligns with their education interests and career goals. Multidisciplinary students graduate with a specific set of skills resulting from a unique program of study.

The BS in Engineering Design offers undergraduates a unique opportunity to earn an engineering degree tailored to their interests with an emphasis on innovation and design. The program offers breadth in engineering design, innovation and project management and depth in an engineering discipline of interest to the student. The program includes a 15-hour engineering design, innovation, and product development sequence that incorporates hands-on, project-based experiences throughout a curriculum to help students develop and practice these skills. The program trains students to be a design engineer with an integrated skills set across product development, project management and engineering problem solving to create functional and elegant products and processes.

Integrative Engineering is a newly proposed degree program bringing flexible, interdisciplinary, and supportive degree pathways to UNM engineering students. The degree will prioritize four pillars: (1) a design spine integrating social and technical approaches to solving real-world problems, (2) professional skills development, (3) core engineering, math, and science courses, and (4) a dual specialization in technical and professional skills areas. With particular attention to New Mexico, we will prepare our students to understand and contribute to their local communities and to take leadership roles in their chosen professions.

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s B.S. in Interdisciplinary Engineering is designed for students who want to work across engineering disciplines while solving complex problems in a unique operational environment. Cadets build a rigorous foundation in engineering, mathematics, and science and then shape their education through flexible engineering and free electives spanning multiple disciplines. The program connects this breadth to real-world Coast Guard challenges through interdisciplinary design projects, collaboration with Coast Guard units, and a two-semester senior capstone. Graduates are prepared to contribute across the Coast Guard’s diverse engineering missions and to pursue professional engineering practice and graduate study in a wide range of engineering fields.

The BS in Interdisciplinary Engineering (BSIDE) provides students with a flexible engineering education that can be customized around their individual career goals. Students build a strong foundation in mathematics, science, engineering, design, and communication, while developing an individualized pathway through depth-area, technical, and breadth electives. This structure allows students to combine engineering with fields such as business, computer science, intellectual property and law, or other disciplines, preparing them to work across traditional disciplinary boundaries and in emerging areas of technology.

Integrated Design is a hands-on, design-based engineering degree program that combines coursework from at least two areas of interest (one of which can be outside engineering) to create a unique interdisciplinary skillset. The IDE degree includes foundational coursework, engineering core courses, am engineering area of emphasis (aerospace, architectural, civil, electrical, environmental or mechanical engineering) and a chosen concentration either within or external to engineering. The emphasis establishes a disciplinary engineering foundation, while the concentration allows students to explore an additional passion, preparing them for a broad range of career opportunities post-graduation.