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The College of Engineering offers curricula leading to the following degrees and concentrations. Like each degree program, concentrations consist of specific course requirements, which are available from individual departments. All concentrations are achievable without adding to degree requirements.

Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Concentrations available for undergraduates within the department include: aerospace engineering (for mechanical engineers), bioengineering, computational engineering, control and mechanical systems, design and manufacturing, energy, materials, solid mechanics, and thermal and fluid sciences.

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

One certificate program (in materials) and three curricular sequence options (biomolecular engineering, environmental chemical engineering, and pre-med) are available in the department. These provide deeper background in specific areas that students may choose to explore.

Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

As they enter their junior year, students majoring in civil engineering must select a concentration in either structural or environmental engineering as part of their course of study.

Computer Science and Engineering

Undergraduates pursuing a bachelor’s degree from this department may choose to specialize in one of three concentrations — bioinformatics and computational biology, information technology leadership, or media computing.

Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering undergraduates may pursue concentrations including: communications, energy, multimedia, and semiconductors and nanotechnology.

To complete the requirements for an engineering degree, each student must take and pass all of the specified courses the given degree, and accompanying minors or concentrations, and must earn the total minimum number of course credit hours specified by the University.

Minors

Although minors offered by the College of Engineering are geared toward engineering undergraduates, any student who satisfies the course pre-requisites may apply to complete an engineering minor, through the offering department.  Minors offered by the College of Engineering require at least four courses (12 credit hours) past degree requirements and include:
Offering Department Minor
 AME Bioengineering

Computational Engineering
Energy Engineering
 CBE

Energy Studies
 CEGEOS

Environmental Geosciences

Concentrations

Concentrations are restricted to particular majors, may typically be completed through careful selection of departmental and technical electives, and are completed within departmental guidelines.  Current concentration offerings include:
Offering Department                           Concentrations
 AME

Aerospace (Mechanical Engineering majors only)
Bioengineering
Computational Engineering
Control & Mechanical Systems
Design & Manufacturing
Energy
Materials
Solid Mechanics
Thermal & Fluid Sciences
CEGEOS

Environmental (Civil Engineering majors only)
Structures (Civil Engineering majors only)
 CSE

Bioinformatics & Computational
Biology
Cloud Computing
IT Leadership
Media Computing
 EE

Biosystems
Communications
Energy
Multimedia
Semiconductors and Nanotechnology

Dual Degree (Five-year Degree)

The College offers several options for students to earn dual-degrees. Most of these programs will require five years to complete.

  • Engineering/Arts and Letters — Through the John J. Reilly Center in the College of Arts and Letters you may earn a B.S. in any engineering discipline and a B.A. in any field in the College of Arts and Letters. Generally, the B.A. will require 45 additional hours of course work, including:

One additional history or social science course,
One additional literature or fine arts course,
One Arts and Letters course with the CSEM attribute,
Satisfying the College of Arts & Letters language requirement, and
Thirty credits of course work in the major field selected.

Students who join the Reilly Dual-Degree Program will also have access to additional financial aid in their fifth year of study.

  • Engineering/M.B.A. — Through the Mendoza College of Business you may earn an M.B.A. degree while finishing your engineering degree. Engineering students apply for admission to the M.B.A. program in their junior year. Accepted students take M.B.A. classes in their fourth year, and in their fifth year complete degree requirements for both programs.

Undergraduate financial aid continues in your fourth year in this dual-degree program. Financial aid for the fifth year comes through the M.B.A. program and may result in a different aid package.

  • Engineering/Science — Although we encourage engineering students with an interest in the theoretical science disciplines to pursue both interests, there is no formal program between the College of Engineering and the College of Science for dual-degree students. If you are interested, you must work out a plan with the appropriate advisers in both colleges.

Undergraduate financial aid for students pursuing these two degrees may not continue beyond the eighth semester.
  • 3-2 and 4-1 Dual-Degree Programs with Partner Schools — The College of Engineering also offers dual-degree programs with partner institutions across the country. Students in these programs spend three years at the partner school, then complete their engineering studies at Notre Dame in their fourth and fifth year. Students earn two degrees at the end of five years — a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree from the partner institution and a bachelor of science in engineering degree from Notre Dame.