Engineering PLUS Program- Draft

INTERESTED IN ENGINEERING PLUS OTHER TOPICS?

Do you love engineering but want to expand you education? Do you want to be more marketable to industry or graduate school?Do you just love to learn? The Valparaiso University College of Engineering PLUS program may be right for you. 

The Engineering PLUS Program allows you to graduate in four years with a bachelor of science in bioengineering (biomechanical track), civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, or mechanical engineering and supplement your major degree with a desirable complementary major or minor by adding 9 credit hours of courses in summer between your freshman and sophomore years (additional cost required).

Students who participate in Engineering PLUS program will complete a minimum of three courses from the list in the summer between their freshman and sophomore year:

• • GE 109: Mechanics-Statics
  • THEO 200: The Christian Tradition
  • ME/CE 215: Mechanics of Materials 
  • ECE 251: Engineering Programming I
  • Math course or a Business course

Why Should You Complement Your Valpo Engineering Degree with a PLUS option?

• The entrepreneurship minor can help prepare you to start your own company or create your own products.
• An engineering minor makes engineers more marketable to any industry.
• A biology minor makes engineers more marketable to health care industries.
• The business analytics minor helps enhance your skills through the effective use of data.
• The fundamentals of business minor prepares you to pursue a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree.
• A chemistry minor makes engineers more marketable to environmental services or process industries.
• Engineering graduate programs desire well-rounded engineers.
• An engineer can never know too much math.