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Engineering Excellence at Santa Clara University: Impactful Education and Community Engagement

Santa Clara University's School of Engineering has been a powerhouse from 1912 to 2005, known for its commitment to improving the human condition through quality engineering education, practice, and scholarship. With a diverse student body of approximately 1,200 students and a faculty of over 120, we offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in various engineering disciplines. Our small class sizes promote close faculty contact and teamwork, while our strong ties to Silicon Valley provide valuable job opportunities. Join us in our mission to innovate and uplift communities through engineering.

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Engineering Excellence at Santa Clara University: Impactful Education and Community Engagement

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  1. Engineering at Santa Clara 1912-2005-… Dr. Mark Ardema Professor mardema@scu.edu http://www.scu.edu/engineering

  2. Vision To be known and treasured, in Silicon Valley and beyond, for the impact of our graduates and faculty on improving the human condition through engineering education, practice, and scholarship

  3. Students • Undergraduates: ~500 • ~24% women • Graduate students: ~700 • 25% fulltime • 75% part-time

  4. Faculty • Permanent: 40 • >25% women (#5 in the U.S.) • Adjunct: ~80 • 100% Silicon Valley • Dedicated teaching scholars • Teach all the classes

  5. Degrees • BS: electrical, mechanical, civil, computer, general • MS: above plus software engineering, engineering management and leadership, applied mathematics • 5-year BS/MS: electrical, mechanical, computer • Engineer: electrical, mechanical, computer • Ph.D.: electrical, mechanical, computer

  6. Class Sizes • Mean: 26 students • Maximum: 60 students • Fewer than 20 students: 48% • More than 50 students: 2% • Impacted: 0%

  7. Program Strengths • Civil: seismic design, enviro/sustainable • Mechanical: mechatronics, thermo, enviro/sustainable • Electrical: interconnections in ICs, nanotech, analog/testable design, complex systems • Computer: parallel computing, multimedia, information security, software engineering

  8. Community • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) • Associated General Contractors (AGC) • Associated Graduate Engineering Students (AGES) • Engineering and Business Alliance (EBA) • Engineers Without Borders (EWB) • Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (ChALESS) • Society of Women Engineers (SWE) • Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

  9. Design Center • State-of-the-art design tools • Unix, Linux, Windows • Hot SV hardware Center for Nanostructures • Field-emission scanning electron microscope • Top-of-the-line measurement gear • Fashionable attire

  10. Excitement • Senior design projects • Junior design contest • Underwater robotics • Undergraduate research • El Salvador trips, projects

  11. Recognition Ranked #14 in the U.S.!US News and World Report September 2005

  12. Distinctiveness • Small classes • Close faculty contact • Teamwork • Interdisciplinary discovery • Engineering for social justice • Silicon Valley jobs, guidance, etc. • Liberal arts, ethics, religion too Don’t you wish you could go again?

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