Engineering at Santa Clara

Engineering at Santa Clara

1912-2005-…

Dr. Mark Ardema

Professor

mardema@scu.edu

http://www.scu.edu/engineering

To be known and treasured, in Silicon Valley and beyond, for the impact of our graduates and faculty on improving the human condition through engineering education, practice, and scholarship

Vision

Students Undergraduates: ~500

– ~24% women

Graduate students: ~700

– 25% fulltime

– 75% part-time

Faculty

Permanent: 40

– >25% women (#5 in the U.S.)

Adjunct: ~80

– 100% Silicon Valley

Dedicated teaching scholars

Teach all the classes

BS: electrical, mechanical, civil, computer, general

MS: above plus software engineering, engineering management and leadership, applied mathematics

5-year BS/MS: electrical, mechanical, computer

Engineer: electrical, mechanical, computer

Ph.D.: electrical, mechanical, computer

Degrees

Mean: 26 students

Maximum: 60 students

Fewer than 20 students: 48%

More than 50 students: 2%

Impacted: 0%

Class Sizes

Civil: seismic design, enviro/sustainable

Mechanical: mechatronics, thermo, enviro/sustainable

Electrical: interconnections in ICs, nanotech, analog/testable design, complex systems

Computer: parallel computing, multimedia, information security, software engineering

Program Strengths

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Associated General Contractors (AGC) Associated Graduate Engineering Students (AGES) Engineering and Business Alliance (EBA) Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (ChALESS) Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

Community

State-of-the-art design tools Unix, Linux, Windows Hot SV hardware

Design Center

Center for Nanostructures Field-emission scanning electron microscope Top-of-the-line measurement gear Fashionable attire

Excitement Senior design projects

Junior design contest

Underwater robotics

Undergraduate research

El Salvador trips, projects

Ranked #14 in the U.S.!US News and World Report September 2005

Recognition

Small classes

Close faculty contact

Teamwork

Interdisciplinary discovery

Engineering for social justice

Silicon Valley jobs, guidance, etc.

Liberal arts, ethics, religion too

Distinctiveness

Don’t you wish you could go again?