Is engineering for you?
Are you a dreamer? A thinker? A doer? Engineering is about being all three. It's a discipline heavily dependent on advanced math, science and technology, but that's not all.
Believe it or not, it's about thinking creatively. It's about communicating. It's about working in teams.
As an engineer — whether biomedical, chemical, computer, electrical or mechanical — people will turn to you to solve problems in the world of commerce, medicine and technology.
Biomedical engineering is the combination of the life sciences and engineering. Practitioners apply their scientific knowledge and analytical abilities to develop solutions to problems faced by the medical world. It is the understanding of cellular systems, microbiology systems, artificial skin and tissues. Biomedical engineers have developed artificial hearts to help cardiac patients to live longer. They have developed lasers used in medicine to treat cancer, arterial disease and eye problems. To find out more about biomedical engineering, contact us at biomedicalengr@vcu.edu.
Chemical and Life Science Engineering
The ability to link the microscopic world of atoms and molecules to the macroscopic world of materials and manufacturing makes chemical and life science engineers especially valuable. Key industries, including petroleum processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, and materials synthesis and processing, depend on chemical engineers to design and operate manufacturing processes safely and economically, with close attention to environmental issues. Chemical and life science engineers also lead the way in research projects of major societal significance, including the design and preparation of artificial organs and tissues and the development of new materials for the next generation of computers. To learn more about chemical and life science engineering, contact us at chemicalengr@vcu.edu.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and computer engineering is the profession concerned with systems that generate, transmit, process and measure useful information. Advanced technology pervades our lives in such areas as communications, electronics and computers. If you have or want to gain a strong background in electric circuit fundamentals and digital logic design, contact us at electricalengr@vcu.edu.
Mechanical Engineering
As the name implies, mechanical engineers have always been involved with engines, machinery and manufacturing. Many mechanical engineers also are involved in design, and they play a dominant role in a wide variety of industries, including transportation, power generation, heating and air conditioning, agricultural and process machinery, consumer products and a wide variety of precision engineering enterprises (optical, prosthetic devices, instruments and the like). If you are interested in learning more about the field, contact us at mechanicalengr@vcu.edu.
We invite you
We invite you to explore this site to find out what the current students have to say. Some of them have known for quite some time that engineering was for them. Others have recently learned about the field.
