Systems engineers are experts at analyzing complex systems and effectively coordinating their many different components. Systems engineers design, develop, manage and optimize complex systems including electrical systems, information systems, economic models, financial systems, environmental systems, telecommunication networks, transportation networks, project management, and aerospace systems.

As an engineering school, we aspire to discover the unknown, educate students and serve society. Our strategy focuses intellectual efforts through a new convergence paradigm and builds on strengths, particularly as applied to medicine and health, energy and environment, and security.

Through innovative partnerships with academic and industry partners—across disciplines and across the world—we will contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

A weekly freshman engineering seminar, organized and run by upper-class students, will introduce you to engineering and will help you identify the specific area of engineering that matches your long-term interests and aspirations.

In addition, the seminar helps develop your leadership, collaboration, and communication skills—all of which will help you succeed throughout your undergraduate education.

Undergraduate students have numerous opportunities to participate with faculty on research projects ranging from cell and tissue engineering to developing biosensors to the synthesis of nanomaterials for use in energy and environmental technologies. 60 percent of our current students participate in an undergraduate research or independent study project with faculty.