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What
is "Engineering and Beyond?"
At the
SMU School of Engineering, we prepare students
for careers in Engineering and Beyond.
So what exactly does this mean? And why is it
important?
Engineering and Beyond means that we recruit
and prepare a highly selective group of students
to be more than just engineers. This is important
because the many of today’s engineering
graduates move into leadership positions within
five years after graduation. We want to prepare
our students for these positions from the start
of their careers.
For undergraduate students, we offer unique leadership
courses in addition to the curriculum required
for each major. These courses include Engineering
Communications, Engineering Management, Technical
Entrepreneurship, and Global Perspectives and
Information Engineering.
Our
Industry Scholars Program enables qualified students
to obtain scholarship funding plus valuable work
experience during their junior and senior years
These leadership classes, combined with SMU’s
strong liberal education, produce a new breed of engineer
– one who is both technically strong and has a
thorough understanding of society and who is better
trained to meet the challenges of today’s rapidly
changing world.
Real-life
projects let students see how their engineering
skills can impact people’s lives. For example,
each year mechanical engineering students design
projects for people with disabilities. (Patent
applied for)
And we’re
continually looking ahead to determine the most
relevant curriculum for today’s engineering
students. In fact, many of the country’s
leading engineering schools have implemented a
first-year curriculum that was developed at SMU.
In addition, we’ve developed several unique
programs such as Engineering Management, Information
Engineering and Management, Software Engineering,
Manufacturing Systems, Telecommunications, Systems
Engineering and Entrepreneurship.
SMU undergraduate students participate in senior
design projects that are focused on real-world
problems such as the mobility needs of the handicapped
or the information management needs of local businesses.
Our innovative curriculum is supplemented by
programs such as our popular Cooperative Education
Program and our new Industry Scholars Program
that give students hands-on
experience with some of
the country’s leading corporations. Undergraduates
also can gain research experience through programs such
as our Research Scholars Program.
We also start early to help prepare students for careers
through formal mentoring programs such as a Career Development
Seminar Series, in which students will take a seminar
each of their four years. Additional programs such as
“Lunch with a Pro,” which enables small
groups of students to meet engineering leaders in an
informal atmosphere, offer further opportunities to
learn about career development.
We’re also focusing a lot of effort on increasing
the presence of under-represented groups in engineering
– a goal that is necessary to maintain our country’s
pre-eminence in engineering. Our Gender Parity Initiative
and Minority Recruitment Initiative are unique. We have
numerous scholarships available to help make an engineering
education available to qualified students.
And we are giving international
students a chance to enhance their engineering
education through cooperative programs with universities
in Mexico, Brazil, and Tunisia.
For graduate students, “Engineering and
Beyond” means a variety of programs to help
students advance beyond their current position.
This includes the country’s largest number
of executive master’s degree programs designed
for working engineers.
It also means one of the country’s oldest
and largest distance learning programs, enabling
students to earn master’s degrees in 19
subject areas without setting foot in Dallas.
We supplement our distance learning courses with
value-added seminars at no extra cost to students.
SMU
offers the largest number of
executive master's degree programs
designed just for engineers
The success of our students – both undergraduate
and graduate – is living proof that SMU attracts
and develops strong and talented engineering leaders
for our new century!
What
is "Engineering and Beyond?"
