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
- Twelve bachelor's degrees, two associate degrees, four minors, two 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 40 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