Pre-Engineering
To inquire about this program:
Dr. James A. Warden | 276.944.6762 | Email
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Emory & Henry offers an opportunity to begin an engineering program in a liberal arts setting. The bachelor’s degree program is completed in cooperation with a selected engineering school, with a choice of three combinations leading to a degree from Emory & Henry or from both schools over a period of five to six years. Most recently, Emory & Henry students have continued their study of engineering at Virginia Tech, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and Tennessee Technological University.
Although this program is oriented mostly toward students in the physical sciences, a combined degree program in certain fields is available to students from the life sciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities. The basic engineering program is intended to prepare you for any of the engineering fields, providing the fundamental coursework for the fields of chemical, civil, electrical, electronic, or mechanical engineering. Students interested in pursuing biomedical engineering take additional courses in biology and/or chemistry.
Special Features
A computerized general physics laboratory allows students to use motion detectors, force probes, timing devices, radiation counters, and CCD cameras as they work through the many laboratory-based activities. Apparatus available to students includes the observatory, several telescopes, a CCD camera for astrophotography, a holographic optical bench, multipurpose analog-to-digital boards, electronics prototyping boards, a darkroom, and a machine shop. Software includes Maple, Mathematica, Videopoint, Voyager II, MacMotion, and other analog-to-digital analysis programs, as well as many simulations.
Internship Opportunities
Internships are required and summer research with the Department of Energy or various universities is encouraged. Special studies have involved examining the effects of dynamical noise on symbol statistics, solving theoretical physics problems using the Mathematica language, and studying nonlinear dynamics (chaos) from the physicist’s perspective.
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Admissions inquiries
Office of Admissions
800.848.5493
Email: ehadmiss@ehc.edu
"I don't like to stand and lecture. What I want is to share my enthusiasm for science -– the joy of understanding how things work. Instead of giving students answers which they are to memorize, we encourage them to find their own answers. We give them problems to solve. It's all a process of reasoning."
-- Dr. Mike Duffy, Physics Professor
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