Engineering provides an engineering education built on math and science foundations.
The Engineering program at JMU offers opportunities for customized in-depth learning through a variety of electives and engineering projects, and concentration areas. We offer a world-class project-based undergraduate engineering experience based on a philosophy of learning by doing. Our curriculum is designed to provide flexibility and choices; a modern way to specialize.
Our required projects and engineering design experiences, in particular, provide a platform for in-depth exploration of real-world problems - creating better learning experiences, more substantial references, and a portfolio of engineering work to distinguish yourself. You will graduate project-ready, and be prepared for the flexibility and resilience needed in our rapidly changing work world.
As a JMU engineer you’ll:
- Customize your education through a range of options including concentrations, electives, and project work.
- Learn how to use saws, drill presses, lathes, sanders and more.
- Create solutions to community needs by turning ideas into prototypes.
- Work on year-long projects to create solutions for a client’s needs.
- Engage with engineering professionals in industry sponsored projects.
- Compete at national and international engineering venues.
188K
projected annual job openings from 2022-2032
– U.S. Bureau of Labor
The major is offered in the Department of Engineering, an academic unit within the College of Integrated Science and Engineering.
The Engineering major at JMU combines the strengths of a traditional engineering curriculum with many of the attributes that industry and academic experts have identified as desirable in the modern engineer. The major spans the traditional engineering sub-disciplines, focuses on sustainable engineering design and systems analysis, provides extensive hands-on laboratory and design studio experiences, and integrates business, management and social aspects of sustainable engineering design.
The curriculum is designed to meet all engineering accreditation standards and to prepare students to pass the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) pre-licensure exam. Graduates will be prepared to succeed in the engineering workforce or in graduate engineering degree programs by exhibiting the practical ingenuity of an "engineering versatilist."
Engineering
- Degrees Offered:
- B.S. in Engineering
- Concentrations:
- Civil and Environmental
- Geo-Environmental
- Electro-Mechanical Systems
- Self-directed
- Minors:
- None
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