Engineering Program Details

Mission Statement

The Department of Engineering & Physics's principal goal is to prepare graduating students to successfully enter desired professional positions or graduate programs. This is achieved by challenging our students with a holistic education in engineering, the sciences, and the liberal arts. Our programs are born of a sense of cooperation between professors and students, and between student peers. In this supportive environment, we guide students to become increasingly self-aware of their strengths and to develop teamwork and communication skills. While theoretical and applied competence is the bedrock of our students' competitiveness, students also develop distinctive traits of caring and collaboration to move the world toward peace, non-violence, human dignity and social justice.

Program Educational Objectives

• Our graduates become industry and civic leaders, framing and defining the new challenges emerging in the 21st century. Elizabethtown graduates apply critical thinking skills developed in a broad liberal arts context to understand and communicate emerging problems.
• Prepared for a lifelong career, Elizabethtown engineers will thrive in a constantly changing world. They use their multidisciplinary engineering science foundation to move beyond conventional solutions to design, develop, and implement sustainable and innovative solutions.
• Our graduates utilize their personal and professional strengths and ethical reasoning to meet the needs of their local communities and our shared global community, creating social and economic value. Graduates embrace, persist through, and learn from challenges.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students graduating from Elizabethtown College’s engineering program will have:

• an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
• an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
• an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
• an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
• an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
• an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
• an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.