Professor Elmer Wolf Engineering Program
The Engineering program offers the first two years of a bachelor’s degree program in Engineering, continuing on in the bachelors degree programs of the leading engineering colleges throughout the country. The first two years are common to most fields of engineering (e.g., civil, electrical, and mechanical), but in the second year some students may begin to specialize in a field of their choice (e.g., chemical engineering).Union College has dual admissions and formal transfer agreements with New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers University, and other colleges. Due to the diversity of engineering curricula in certain fields of specialization, it is sometimes necessary for graduates to take one or two additional courses before attaining junior status at the transferring college. Applicants for the engineering program must present two years of algebra and one year of geometry, trigonometry, chemistry, and physics, as high school entrance credits. Students deficient in any of these subjects must take the appropriate preparatory courses. All engineering candidates are required to take a mathematics and a physics placement test; students who are not placed in MAT 171 will not take PHY 111 and will be limited to a maximum of 15 credit hours during the first semester.
Upon successful completion of all program requirements, graduates will be able to:
- Employ critical thinking and problem-solving skills in in the solution of technical problems;
- Employ computer software applications in the solving and presentation of technical problems;
- Interpret and produce engineering drawings using computer-aided drafting (CAD) skills and principles of engineering graphics;
- Analyze problems of a technical nature and design computer based solutions;
- Interpret and perform laboratory procedures and measurements;
- Analyze and assess the validity of experimental data;
- Manage a team project both as a leader and as a member
- Express and interpret both technical and non-technical concepts orally, in writing and in electronic formats