Engineering Studies
The engineering studies major at Centre College offers an introduction to engineering while pursuing areas of specialization or additional majors, laying the groundwork for graduate studies and careers in highly specialized and in-demand fields.
Overview
Whether you dream of designing tomorrow’s green buildings, advancing health care strategies or shaping the future through public policy or law, your foundation starts here. Centre College’s Engineering Studies Program allows you to build your skills and strengthen your foundation in physics, science, mathematics, and design without additional courses needed for professional certification immediately after graduation. This smaller required course load allows you to bolster your education in specialized fields with graduate school and careers in mind. You will gain the critical thinking and analytical skills taught in the major’s foundational courses, combined with the communication skills, exposure to diversity and sustainability, and other liberal arts values embedded in Centre’s renowned liberal arts and sciences framework.
Your Major Took You Where?
Centre graduates have gone on to a variety of graduate programs and careers.
Employers and Professions
- Deloitte
- Gray Construction
- General Motors
- Fischer Homes
- Lexmark
- Kaiser-Francis Oil Company
Postgraduate Study
- University of Kentucky
- Duke University
- Georgia Tech
- Washington University
- University of California-Berkeley
- Wake Forest
Curriculum
The Engineering Studies Program is designed to allow you to amass a robust knowledge of the fundamentals of engineering and grow your skills in art, science, mathematics, and design. Among the core requirements in the engineering studies major, you will take courses in engineering, physics, math and chemistry with available electives offered with specialized careers and graduate studies in mind.
