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3-2 Engineering Program

Students enrolled at HWS have the opportunity to earn a Bachelors degree inchip collage 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.

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For more information, contact:

Theodore Allen, Associate Professor of Physics, ext. 3623, 108 Eaton Hall


Dept. Secretaries:

Ann Warner
781-3586
(8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.)

Laura Sposato*
781-3587
(1 - 5 p.m.)

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