Engineering at Santa Clara
1912-2005-…
Dr. Mark Ardema
Professor
http://www.scu.edu/engineering
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
Vision
Students Undergraduates: ~500
– ~24% women
Graduate students: ~700
– 25% fulltime
– 75% part-time
Faculty
Permanent: 40
– >25% women (#5 in the U.S.)
Adjunct: ~80
– 100% Silicon Valley
Dedicated teaching scholars
Teach all the classes
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
Degrees
Mean: 26 students
Maximum: 60 students
Fewer than 20 students: 48%
More than 50 students: 2%
Impacted: 0%
Class Sizes
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
Program Strengths
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)
Community
State-of-the-art design tools Unix, Linux, Windows Hot SV hardware
Design Center
Center for Nanostructures Field-emission scanning electron microscope Top-of-the-line measurement gear Fashionable attire
Excitement Senior design projects
Junior design contest
Underwater robotics
Undergraduate research
El Salvador trips, projects
Ranked #14 in the U.S.!US News and World Report September 2005
Recognition
Small classes
Close faculty contact
Teamwork
Interdisciplinary discovery
Engineering for social justice
Silicon Valley jobs, guidance, etc.
Liberal arts, ethics, religion too
Distinctiveness
Don’t you wish you could go again?