{"id":12496,"date":"2012-05-14T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2012-06-05T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:42:40","slug":"emu-and-catholic-do-joint-engineering-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/emu-and-catholic-do-joint-engineering-program\/","title":{"rendered":"EMU and Catholic Do Joint Engineering Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has partnered with Catholic University of America (CUA) for a new dual degree program that will prepare students to pursue peacebuilding and sustainability through engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe envision the dual degree program as one that will allow students to embrace the Anabaptist mission and vision that EMU espouses while also obtaining the training needed to put their skills to work as an engineer,\u201d said Deirdre Smeltzer, PhD, chair of mathematical sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The program commences in the fall of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Students will spend two years at EMU, immersed in calculus, physics and introductory science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of the third year, students will transition to EMU\u2019s Washington Community Scholars\u2019 Center in Washington, D.C., fulfilling their cross-cultural requirement and gaining internship experience and valuable STEM training, according to Smeltzer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, in the spring of the third year, students will transfer to CUA and spend two years completing additional requirements,\u201d Smeltzer said.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Heisey, academic dean at EMU, said she is excited about bringing together \u201cthe best gifts of EMU\u2019s liberal arts curriculum with the high quality engineering training offered by CUA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion, students will emerge with bachelor\u2019s degrees from both EMU and CUA.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Bontrager-Singer, a first-year mathematics major from Goshen, Ind., said the pre-engineering classes he\u2019s taken have given him \u201ca level of understanding the material you cannot get from a large lecture. In addition, all my classes are interconnected and build on each other giving me the essentials in math, physics and chemistry that I need to advance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More information on the engineering program can be found at <a href=\"\/math\/engineering\/\">emu.edu\/math\/engineering<\/a>. Interested students can download a <a href=\"\/math\/engineering\/curriculum\/\">sample two-year curriculum (PDF)<\/a> for review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) has partnered with Catholic University of America (CUA) for a new dual degree program that will prepare students to pursue peacebuilding and sustainability through engineering. \u201cWe <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/emu-and-catholic-do-joint-engineering-program\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about EMU and Catholic Do Joint Engineering Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":12687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,5642,5598,4513,5730],"tags":[14267,13719,14265,14266,9392,14268],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-12496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-faculty-and-staff","category-mathematical-sciences","category-student-life","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-catholic-university-of-america","tag-deirdre-smeltzer","tag-engineering","tag-jake-bontrager-singer","tag-nancy-heisey","tag-washington-community-scholars-center"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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