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Michigan Engineering
Michigan Engineering is a place for a special kind of engineer. We welcome students from a diversity of backgrounds, who will flourish within an environment of wide-ranging possibilities. Our breadth of outstanding opportunities is unmatched.
Beyond excellent engineering research and teaching, a global footprint and significant resources, the University of Michigan College of Engineering provides the most well-rounded intellectual experience of any engineering institution. We aim to produce graduates who combine technical depth with lateral thinking and an ability to make an impact. And, we want our graduates to be globally competent engineers, through meaningful international experiences, broad exposure to diversity, and development of communication and teamwork skills. We can create this unique environment because of a very special set of assets, including:
- a dozen highly ranked engineering departments and divisions, and growing faculty headcount and student enrollment;
- extensive collaboration with our highly rated medical and business schools, and expanding interactions with our top-notch art and design, architecture and music programs;
- the country’s first engineering/arts living-learning community;
- hundreds of student organizations and competitive teams, and the opportunity to learn under the tutelage of renowned professors of practice;
- major partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and other academic institutions on six continents;
- one of the nation's most successful centers of entrepreneurship;
- a new center for engineering diversity and outreach.
Michigan Engineers are expected to become more than just great engineers. As well-balanced thinkers, they are challenged to lead teams, identify opportunities and solve complex problems requiring multidisciplinary approaches. Faculty with unconventional ideas are welcome in this innovative, dynamic and diverse enterprise, where tradition and experience are respected, but talent and results are rewarded.
Michigan Engineering Mission
To be the place of choice for engineering education and research…A Michigan institution that challenges its students, faculty and staff to learn, to grow, to achieve and to serve the needs of society…A place where excellence, excitement, innovation and impact define the style and substance of its activities.
Michigan Engineering Goals
- To provide a continuously improving educational and research environment in which faculty, administrators, students and staff work together to educate our students to lead, to have impact, and to make significant contributions to their professions, industry, government, academia and society.
- To attract diverse, outstanding students, and to motivate and educate them to reach their full potential as leaders in engineering professions.
Degree Programs
The College of Engineering offers undergraduate and graduate programs through the doctoral level. The undergraduate program consists typically of a four-year schedule leading to a bachelor's degree. There are 14 courses of study that lead to the Bachelor of Science in Engineering
degree (B.S.E.). By careful planning, an additional bachelor's degree (B.S. or A.B.) can be earned within the College of Engineering or in combination with another college within the University of Michigan in about one year beyond the time required for a single degree. Completion of both an
engineering baccalaureate and a master's degree in approximately five years is also possible. A complete list of graduate programs is found in the Graduate Studies portion of this Bulletin.
Areas of undergraduate study at the College of Engineering include:
- Aerospace Engineering
- Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Physics
- Industrial and Operations Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
- Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Accreditation
The Computer Science program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
The Aerospace, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer Engineering, Electrical, Industrial and Operations, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.
