Students enrolled at HWS have the opportunity to earn a Bachelors degree
in
engineering through joint programs with a variety of engineering schools
with which we have 3-2 engineering programs. Students in these programs
earn two bachelors degrees in five-years: a B.A. or B.S. from HWS, and
an engineering degree from one of our partner institutions. These combined
programs are highly successful, and give students the rich benefits of
a liberal arts education combined with the specialized training an engineering
school can provide. Students in any of these programs spend a total of
three years at HWS and two years at the engineering school.
HWS has formal 3-2 relationships with four Schools of Engineering:
Students completing their engineering degrees at Dartmouth first spend
two years at HWS, then one year at Dartmouth, then the senior year back
at HWS, and the fifth year again at Dartmouth. At the other institutions,
the program is arranged more conventionally, with the student spending
the first three years at HWS and the final two years at the engineering
school.
Students may complete any major they wish at HWS, although given the
requirements for the engineering degree, students in the 3-2 engineering
program usually major in Physics at HWS. The combination of a departmental
major at HWS and an engineering degree at the partner institution enables
the student provides the student with a disciplinary major (the departmental
major) and an interdisciplinary major (the engineering degree), which
meets one aspect of the HWS graduation requirements.
Students contemplating the 3-2 engineering program should contact the
HWS liaison for these programs as soon as possible; currently this is
Prof. Don Spector (spector@hws.edu)
of the Physics Department. Meeting the needs of completing a departmental
major at HWS and meeting the requirements the engineering schools have
for admission is facilitated greaty by advance planning.