Five Year Program in Engineering/Arts and Letters

Students can obtain a dual degree in Engineering and their choice of major with in the College of Arts and Letters in a five-year program. The engineering executive in modern industry should have a broad background in cultural, social and technical subjects. Some allowance is made for this in the prescribed four-year curricula but, in view of the extent of the technical field that must be presented, coverage of the cultural field is necessarily limited.

To realize the desired objective more fully, the College of Engineering, in co-operation with the College of Arts and Letters of the University, instituted in 1952 five-year programs combining the basic stem of the liberal arts program with the technical requirements of the various engineering programs. The student completing one of these combination programs will be awarded two degrees: the degree of bachelor of arts and the degree of bachelor of science in the professional course pursued.

Students pursuing this program must have superior scholastic ability and be acceptable to both the dean of the College of Arts and Letters and the dean of the College of Engineering. Choice of the program should be indicated when first entering the University, but choice of a particular field of engineering may be deferred until the end of the second year.

 

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