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Engineering, BS
Work on team projects. Solve real problems. See the world through a liberal arts lens. Join USF engineering and tackle the challenges of our time.
Come Design the Future From Here
Why USF Engineering?
You’ll join a program that celebrates what engineering truly is — solving problems big and small to help those in need of big and small solutions. We’re all about diversity and communication — being the best means having the most perspectives to consider when analyzing a problem, and then being able to collectively arrive at the strongest result. This is where you come in — bring your skills, passions, and energy. Join us!
What Makes Us Stand Out
These qualities are what make engineering at USF different.
Project-Based Learning
We believe that students learn best by doing. Rather than beginning our future engineers’ education with book lessons to be applied in practice years down the road, we’ll begin by engaging students with real-world challenges. These projects will be drawn from community and professional partners and require teamwork and communication to solve. From their first day at USF, our engineers experience actual problem-solving using a multi-disciplinary approach, learning from each other and older cohorts.
Diversity
Simply put, we want to change the face of engineering. USF has one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse student bodies and is two-thirds women. This gives us a unique opportunity to revolutionize the demographics of the field. We recruit, admit, and graduate a diverse student body, with programs including peer mentoring, career counseling, and scholarships to bolster that support, because we know that arriving at the best solution for a problem isn’t possible without the input of multiple and varying perspectives.
Jesuit Education
Informing every step of our approach to engineering will be USF’s inherent emphasis on Jesuit education. Teaching in the Ignatian tradition produces students, graduates, and professionals who possess a unique blend of technical prowess, intellectual curiosity, a commitment to social justice, and the ability to integrate knowledge across disciplines. Our goal is to create engineers who can think broadly and creatively while drawing on a variety of skillsets and strong ethics to solve global problems.
San Francisco Immersion
San Francisco is one of the most innovative cities on Earth, at the heart of the innovations in technology and environmental sustainability. Our students will have the opportunity to intentionally and thoughtfully engage with this ecosystem through internships, projects, guest lecturers, and sponsorships to provide our graduates with a clear path to a 21st-century career.
Pick a Concentration
As an engineering major, you will choose a concentration in Electrical Engineering or Sustainable Environments Engineering, and declare by the end of your second year. Irrespective of your concentration, you will graduate with a degree in general engineering.
Kevin Sarmiento ’24
When I took the internship, I just didn't know what to expect in the real world. But the engineering department has prepared me well enough to adapt to my surroundings and has just prepared me well overall.”
Kevin Sarmiento ’24
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