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Engineering Physics
Administered by Nuclear Engineering
and Radiological Sciences Program
Engineering Physics
Basic physics is an integral part of every
engineering curriculum. However, in many areas
of engineering the sophistication of the field, coupled with the staggering rate of
technological advance, has created a need for
engineers with much stronger backgrounds in
math and physics—people who can work in
an engineering environment and who are capable
of applying advanced physics concepts to bring
innovations to the marketplace. For example, the development of the computer closely
followed the invention of the transistor.
Consider the number of other recently
discovered physical phenomena (lasers, nuclear
reactors, particle accelerators, etc.) that
have been successfully brought to fruition by
engineers.
Engineering Physics is particularly
attractive to those students who may attend
graduate school, even if they have not decided
on a particular field. An advanced physics and
mathematics background coupled with an
engineering curriculum is excellent preparation
for most graduate engineering programs and for
a traditional physics or applied physics
program.
Engineering Physics meets these needs by
providing a thorough curriculum in basic and
advanced engineering courses combined with
sufficient physics and mathematics to be
equivalent to a traditional degree in physics.
A unique feature of the curriculum is the
elective sequence of engineering courses that
the student may select in a specialized field
of engineering. This sequence of courses can be
chosen by the student (with the advisor’s
agreement) in any field of interest, such as
microprocessor design, plasma processing, electro-optics, radiological health, computational methods, or bioengineering, to
name just a few. With 46 credit hours of
electives in math, engineering and physics, the
student has a high degree of flexibility and
opportunity for exploring or specializing in
fields of interest.
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