Program: Engineering Innovation and Leadership

Program Director: Dr. Roger Gonzalez

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. 

Programs: BS in Engineering Science (Business) and BS in Engineering Science (Microelectronics)

Program Director: Shawn Jordan, Interim Director

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.

Program: Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering

Program Director: Bruk Berhane, Undergraduate Program Director

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.

Program: Integrated Engineering

Program Director: Emilie Silverling,  Program Director

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.

Program: Integrated Business and Engineering

Program Director: Morgan Hynes, Associate Professor

This program trains students to bring an engineering mindset to a career in business, preparing graduates to make business decisions grounded in technology, engineering and math. IBE students complete the first-year engineering school coursework and select an area of specialization form the following: Data Analytics, Financial Engineering, Operations and Supply Chain Management or a Student Designated Specialty Area (approved by an academic advisor). By the end of the program, students have taken roughly 60% business classes and 40% engineering classes.

Program: Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Engineering

Program Director: Kelly Brumbelow, Associate Department Head, Multidisciplinary Engineering

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.

Program: BS in Engineering Design, School of Engineering

Program Director: Dr. Timothy M. Wick, Director of Engineering Design

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.