Sample paths
Some of the most common paths EGRS students follow are connected to economics, architecture, environment and sustainability, engineering and engineering-adjacent education.
In today’s interconnected and highly complex world, employees often fill multiple roles, with specialization increasingly becoming a thing of the past. The demand for professionals with interdisciplinary skills calls for innovation in undergraduate education—a fusion of engineering and the liberal arts that equips students with a new and diverse set of problem-solving tools.
For example, providing clean water not only requires engineering for retrieval, distribution, and treatment systems, but also a determination of where such systems should be implemented, what type of systems are appropriate, and how they will be financed. Similarly, achieving sustainable energy requires diplomatic, political, and societal changes as well as improvements in energy generation and distribution technologies.
The Engineering Studies major requirements allow for substantial flexibility. Nine
course requirements enable students to choose among two or more courses to fulfill the requirement. As a result, students’ paths to completion of the degree and their career paths after graduation may be quite different from one another.
Some of the most common paths EGRS students follow are connected to economics, architecture, environment and sustainability, engineering and engineering-adjacent education.