Undergraduate Offerings

The School of Engineering Design and Innovation’s mission is to empower learners to become change-makers and provide life-changing experiences inside and outside of the classroom. We conduct innovative research at the intersection of disciplines, pioneering new fields in engineering and expanding our impact on society. We promote diversity, equity, and inclusion among our faculty, staff, and students, recognizing that engineering education and design innovation flourish when all voices can be heard. We serve as the gateway to interdisciplinary engineering education, design innovation, and lifelong learning.

Our programs and academic offerings are as diverse as the students we welcome into our school. From undergraduate engineering technology degrees to certificates, minors, and microcredentials, our undergraduate offerings focus on enhancing technical skills and backgrounds by advancing students' knowledge in new disciplines. 

Certificates

Engineering and Community Engagement Certificate

A certificate in Engineering and Community Engagement is proposed for students in the College of Engineering. This certificate is intended to acknowledge students who have gained proficiency in design, research and application of appropriate technologies for use in serving communities in the U.S. and abroad while stressing an awareness of the cultural context of such engineering activities.

Engineering Design with Digital Tools Certificate 

The Engineering Design with Digital Tools (EDDiT) certificate is a 13-credit certificate that enables students to specialize in digital design tools. This provides students with the opportunity to more fully develop their CAD and design skills, which are highly sought after by industry.

Engineering Design Certificate

The certificate provides an opportunity to pursue a specialization in engineering design; offering an incentive to take more courses in design and participate in more design projects, thereby improving employment prospects. 

Product Innovation Entrepreneurship Certificate

Learn and practice the entrepreneurial mindset in the Product Innovation Entrepreneurship Certificate. This certificate prepares you to run an entrepreneurial venture or to be an intrapreneur where you utilize the entrepreneurial mindset within an existing organization.

Space Systems Engineering Certificate

This certificate program is designed to prepare students for careers in the space industry and for work on space systems.

Minors

Engineering Design

The engineering design minor helps students develop design skills through a series of core project-based design courses focused on team-based projects and engineering design processes.

Engineering Leadership Development 

The undergraduate engineering leadership development minor emphasizes developing leadership potential and multicultural awareness in each student through a curriculum based on hands-on, real-life leadership challenges.

Social Entrepreneurship ENTI Cluster

The social entrepreneurship cluster of the entrepreneurship and innovation minor prepares students to affect sustainable and scalable social impact within marginalized communities while working in real-time to develop and deliver solutions that are technologically appropriate, environmentally benign, socially acceptable, and economically sustainable. 

Product Innovation ENTI Cluster

The product innovaton cluster of the entrepreneurship and innovation minor brings together faculty with a variety of real-world business start-up experience and those students who are seeking entrepreneurial experiences in product innovation. This cluster is designed for any undergraduate student from any major interested in being a product innovation leader in an existing or new business. 

Degrees

Associate Degrees

Biomedical Engineering Technology, A. ENGT (offered at New Kensington Campus)

The biomedical engineering technology program is designed to provide a curriculum that prepares students to pursue a career in the evolving healthcare technology management field and to develop in their profession.

Electrical Engineering Technology, A. ENGT (offered at Fayette and York Campuses)

The electrical engineering technology program offers structured exposure to technical areas such as computer-aided drafting, computer-aided design, robotics, microprocessors, electrical machine control, and industrial electronics.

Mechanical Engineering Technology, A. ENGT (offered at Dubois and York Campuses)

The mechanical engineering technology degree program offers structured exposure to technical areas such as computer-aided drafting, computer-aided manufacturing, robotics, materials, product and process design, and machine design.

Surveying Engineering Technology (offered at Wilkes-Barre Campus)

The surveying engineering technology major provides the basic undergraduate education required for private and public service as a technician in the surveying profession.

Bachelor Degrees

Computer Science, B.S. (offered at Berks, Brandywine and Hazleton Campuses)

Computer Science is the study of computation, including its principles and foundations, its efficient implementation, its analysis, and its practical use in a wide range of different application areas. Computer Science is far more than just programming, and no other science or engineering discipline has had a greater impact in such diverse areas as commerce, communication, entertainment, finance, medicine, the social sciences, the physical sciences and the life sciences. Computer Science impacts our daily lives in a multitude of ways and computer scientists are instrumental in driving these changes. Computer Science transforms the way we look at and live in our world.

Electrical Engineering Technology, B.S. (offered at Wilkes-Barre Campus)

This electrical engineering technology program helps prepare graduates for technical positions in the expanding fields of electronics, computers and microprocessors, instrumentation, and electrical equipment. The primary objective is to provide a broad foundation of theoretical and practical knowledge in the areas of electrical and electronic circuits, digital circuits, computers, electrical machinery, and programmable logic controls.

Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology, B.S. (offered at Fayette, New Kensington, and York Campuses)

The electro-mechanical engineering technology program provides basic coverage in all major areas of technology involved in the operation and control of manufacturing and production processes, including instrumentation and monitoring methods, principles of machine design, automated control techniques, thermal and fluid sciences, computerized manufacturing systems, principles of electrical and electronic circuit operation, computer-aided drafting and design, the economics of production, and statistical analysis and quality control.

Engineering, B.S. (offered at Hazleton, Dubois, Brandywine, and Abington Campuses)

The Engineering program provides students with a broad foundation in engineering with specialization in a technically and professionally relevant topic. Students must choose the Multidisciplinary Engineering Design option at Abington, Brandywine and Great Valley campuses, Applied Materials option at the DuBois campus or the Alternative Energy and Power Generation option at the Hazleton campus. From this degree program, students will acquire the ability to work as members of a team toward successful attainment of a common goal, thus preparing them to work in for-profit or nonprofit organizations, or to further their studies in graduate school. 

Mechanical Engineering, B.S. (offered at Williamsport Campus)

The Engineering program provides students with a broad foundation in engineering with specialization in a technically and professionally relevant topic. Students must choose the Multidisciplinary Engineering Design option at Abington, Brandywine and Great Valley campuses, Applied Materials option at the DuBois campus or the Alternative Energy and Power Generation option at the Hazleton campus. From this degree program, students will acquire the ability to work as members of a team toward successful attainment of a common goal, thus preparing them to work in for-profit or nonprofit organizations, or to further their studies in graduate school. 

Surveying Engineering, B.S. (offered at Wilkes-Barre Campus)

The surveying engineering program provides students with the technical skills using traditional surveying instruments and the computational skills to solve problems typically encountered in boundary and construction surveying. Additionally, the program covers the legal and professional aspects of land surveying and covers subjects such as image analysis, geographic information systems, geodesy, global positioning systems, stormwater management, and land subdivision design.