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DEGREES & PROGRAMS Engineering

Gain the technical skills and deep understanding needed to address crucial engineering challenges.

Deeply grounded in the liberal arts, our new engineering program blends a mix of courses in engineering, physics, mathematics, and chemistry. We seek to equip our graduates to find innovative solutions to enduring problems by cultivating collaboration, problem-solving and moral discernment. Increasingly, solutions to local and global challenges require insights from engineers, especially when addressing social mobility, caring for the environment, reducing poverty and promoting human welfare. Our graduates will benefit from thorough technical and scientific training and the interdisciplinary sensitivity and moral imagination of the Christian liberal arts. We've embraced the challenge from the National Science Foundation to prepare adaptive engineers committed to blending science, engineering and the arts. 

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Requirements for a Bachelor of Science in engineering with concentration in mechanical engineering: 89 units 

Sample Schedule

Required Lower-Division Courses: 24 units

ME 005 Engineering and the Liberal Arts (2)

ME 010 Project Management (1)

ME 015 Engineering Economics (2)

ME 020 Engineering Graphics (2)

ME 030 Materials Engineering (4)

ME 040 Mechanics of Materials (4)

ME 055 Statics and Dynamics (4)

ME 060 Experimental Methods (3)

ME 080, 081 Project I, II (1, 1)

Required Upper-Division Courses: 31 units

ME 100 Control Systems (4)

ME 110 Fluid Mechanics (4)

ME 120 Thermodynamics (4) ME 130 Heat Transfer Analysis (4)

ME 140 Instrumentation and Measurement (3)

ME 150 Manufacturing Processes (3)

ME 160 Mechanical Design (3) One of the following: (2)

ME 180 Project III (2)

ME 190 Engineering Practicum (2)

ME 181 Project IV (2)

ME 195 Seminar I: Engineering – An Interdisciplinary Approach (1)

ME 196 Seminar II: Faith, Technology, and Christian Responsibility (1)

General Math and Science Courses: 34 units

CHM 005 General Chemistry 1 (4)

MA 009, 010 Elementary Calculus I, II (4, 4)

MA 019 Multivariable Calculus (4)

MA/PHY XX Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (4)

PHY 021, 023 Physics I, II (4, 4)

PHY 022, 024 General Physics Laboratory I, II (1, 1)

PHY 142 Circuits and Electronics (4)

PHY 143 Electronics Laboratory (0)

  • Required Lower-Division Courses: 24 units
  • Required Upper-Division Courses: 31 units
  • General Math and Science Courses: 34 units

Career Paths

Engineers trained in mechanical engineering work in wide range of industries on a variety of projects, including new technologies such as automation and robotics. Engineering continues to be one of the most rapidly growing majors in the country, and demand in the job market for engineers is soaring. With many industries employing mechanical engineers in Santa Barbara County, Westmont engineering students will find a rich source of internships during college and jobs when they graduate.


Research

Like all Westmont students, engineering majors will have the opportunity to conduct research with professors or pursue their own projects and ideas. This hands-on experience prepares them for engineering jobs and for graduate school.

Faculty Highlights

Ken Kihlstrom, Ph.D.

Demonstrates physics by lying on a bed of nails and walking on hot coals

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Michael Sommermann, Ph.D.

A nuclear physicist who takes astronomical photos

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