Engineering at Santa Clara

The undergraduate programs leading to the Bachelor of Science in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering were first offered at Santa Clara University in 1912; the programs were accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology in 1937. Since that time, the following degree programs have been added: Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Engineering; Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Engineering Management and Leadership, and Mechanical Engineering; Engineer’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. In addition, the School of Engineering offers a variety of certificate programs.

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: MISSION STATEMENT

The School of Engineering at Santa Clara University has a mission to educate and serve students for the benefit of the Silicon Valley area, the state, the nation, and the world. We do this through academic programs that educate professional engineers who practice with competence, conscience, and compassion, through scholarly activities that create and disseminate new knowledge, and through service activities that benefit our various constituencies and humanity in general.

Value-centered in the Jesuit Catholic tradition, our academic programs focus on the needs of our students, on the needs of those organizations for which they will work, and on the needs of people who use the products and processes that engineers create. Our programs combine both theory and relevant practice and are supplemented by state-of-the-art laboratory experiences. Our curricula provide opportunities for experiential learning through internships and meaningful projects. Our programs are structured to be timely in content and delivered in formats convenient for students whether full-time, part-time, on-campus, off-campus, undergraduate, graduate, or nondegree seeking.

Our scholarly activities engage the creativity and imagination of our faculty and students in technological challenges facing the community and our various disciplines. These scholarly activities are accomplished through an active partnership with industry, government, and the academic community.

Students, faculty, and staff of the School of Engineering serve our constituencies in the promotion of our profession, in the encouragement of leadership, and in the improvement of the human condition.

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: VISION

To combine our Jesuit tradition of competence, conscience, and compassion with a Silicon Valley entrepreneurial spirit to produce engineers who, by their personal lives and by their professional activities, will make a strong positive impact on their communities and the world.