School at a Glance

Vision

To be an innovative engineering school where making things matters

Mission

Our mission is to:

• Deliver rigorous design-oriented programs, characterized by close student-faculty interaction, that prepare graduates for professional practice and graduate studies
• Conduct research and outreach, in an open laboratory environment, that contributes to knowledge in our fields of expertise, supports our educational objectives, and serves the needs of industry
• Cultivate our unique interdisciplinary educational environment that brings engineering and business together

General Facts

• Ten bachelor's degrees, two associate degrees, nine certificates and one graduate degree

• 1,600 undergraduate students and 56 full-time faculty members
• The Interdisciplinary Business with Engineering Studies degree is offered jointly with the Black School of Business and accredited by AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).
• Research Centers:
  • Applied Energy Research Center
  • Applied Research & Development Center
  • Engineering K-12 Outreach Center
  • Medical Plastics Center of Excellence

Hallmarks

We pride ourselves on the following hallmarks:

• A U.S. News & World Report Top 50 undergraduate engineering school
• Internationally recognized Penn State degrees in a small college environment
• Rigorous undergraduate education emphasizing practical experiences that prepare our graduates for professional practice and graduate school
• More than 95 percent of graduates employed in field within one year
• Opportunities for undergraduate students to engage with faculty in funded undergraduate research
• Practical capstone design experiences, over 70% are industry sponsored, culminating in the Richard J. Fasenmyer Engineering Design Conference
• Excellent equipment, laboratories, and facilities in the $30 million, 160,000-square-foot Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center that opened in July 2006
• The first engineering school in the U.S. to be co-located with an AACSB accredited school of business (Black School of Business)
• We offer the only undergraduate software engineering degree in the Penn State system
• Plastics Engineering Technology is one of only a handful of such programs in the country and at 10,500 square-feet, the plastics processing lab is the largest educational plastics laboratory in the country.
• Faculty actively engaged in research and applied research centers focused on meeting the needs of our constituents
• Outreach programs that engage and introduce K-12 students and teachers to engineering
• One of the largest undergraduate-only engineering schools in the nation, offering both engineering and engineering technology degree programs