Undergraduate Programs

The School of Engineering offers a unique educational experience through a modern, liberal curriculum suited to the personal aspirations of the student.

Courses are structured based on the idea of unity of knowledge, integrating deep study of engineering science and design with broader interdisciplinary activities from within and outside engineering to enable students to excel in leadership of professionally and ethnically diverse organizations.

Accredited Degrees	Interdisciplinary Degrees	Minors
Civil Engineering Electrical Engineering Environmental Engineering Mechanical Engineering	Engineering Management BS in Engineering BA in Engineering	Electrical Engineering

Laptop Requirement

Laptop Requirement (effective for all students entering SoE as of Fall 2011):

Justification:
Engineering is a professional field that leverages mathematics and the sciences to design and implement solutions to problems faced by society. The practicing Engineer utilizes not only the fundamentals related to mathematics and the sciences but also computational tools to accomplish his or her tasks. With this latter reality in mind, the School of Engineering (SoE) requires all incoming Engineering students to have a laptop computer. The laptop requirement enables instructors to incorporate computational analysis and numerical examples in the classroom for an immediate and powerful praxis of engineering theory.

Minimum Requirements:
The laptop requirement is platform agnostic (Windows, Mac or Linux) and is satisfied with current mid-range offerings (i.e., 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, 802.11 a/g/n). Note that current netbooks do not have sufficient computational resources to meet your needs. As part of the laptop requirement, students must also purchase a student version of MATLAB (a high-level programming language and interactive computational environment). MATLAB is available through the MathWorks website: http://www.mathworks.com/academia/student_version.

Strongly Recommended:
The School also recommends that students have word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software on their laptop. Recognizing that students will also use their laptops for multimedia applications (e.g., video editing for class projects) and running various engineering software during their tenure at UVM, the School recommends new computers be purchased with increased performance (i.e., 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB storage).

Note to Mac Users:
Certain engineering software packages are PC-only and do not offer versions for Mac OSX. An appropriate PC emulation software would be required to run these applications on your Mac laptop. Popular options for this emulation is the freely available Virtual Box (www.virtualbox.org ) and also the commercial software Parallels (www.parallels.com).