The School of Engineering at Western New England College is renowned for producing graduates who are ready to "hit the ground running" as productive entry-level engineers. In fact, students begin their engineering careers the very first day of class. If you are highly motivated, curious, and creative, and want to put theory into practice as soon as possible, then our programs are just right for you!

Navigating the "white water" of the freshman year for engineering students is notorious for the challenges, both personal and academic, with which you will be confronted. That's why we offer you all kinds of one-on-one help peer advisor and First-Year Seminar assistants in engineering. You can trust these upper classmen for the straight scoop about any topic you want. In your first semester here, you will become part of our network of successful engineering alumni through your participation in our Alumni Mentoring Program. Professionally, you will begin learning how to solve real-world problems in your very first semester with the First Year Program Class Design competitions. You'll be encouraged to join some of the many engineering student organizations that we sponsor. Your engineering career indeed begins on Day One at the Western New England College School of Engineering!

While you are on your way to becoming an engineer, you will be taking courses in small sections (rarely more than 20 students), each of them from one of your faculty members (not graduate students!) who will become your true mentors and provide the individualized attention that we know fosters success. You will retain your individuality; you will not become a "small fish in a big pond."

Ours is not a "total immersion" program in which you proceed through the four years as part of a cohort of "techies." You will take humanities courses, culture courses, social science courses, English, mathematics and science courses from renowned faculty in those disciplines. You will learn to integrate your professional coursework with liberal learning and thereby develop a trait that distinctively marks a Western New England College engineer, the ability to conduct your career appropriately within social, economic, and environmental contexts.

While active in research and consulting, your faculty members are committed to facilitating your learning as their first priority. All of our faculty, having earned Ph.D.s from the world's leading research institutions and having practiced at our nation's leading research laboratories, now will concentrate on helping you bridge the chasm between classroom theory and practice, from imagination to realization. You will excel in the collaborative learning environment we have created here. Our emphasis on teamwork and communication will make you particularly attractive in the employment market and to the leading graduate and professional schools.

If you are one of our very best students, as a junior or as a senior, you'll be invited to join Tau Beta Pi, the national all-engineering honor society. As a "Tau Bet" you'll be asked to be a mentor yourself working with students coming behind you, providing for freshman the same support that you received.

After three years of increasingly more sophisticated course work and design experiences, you'll be ready for your capstone undergraduate experience, in which you integrate all of your course work into the Senior Design Project, an independent yearlong investigation under the direct mentorship of a professor that you choose. Perhaps, if you are like many of our alumni, your senior project, which will most likely involve an industrial sponsor, might lead to an invention, perhaps even a patent, but certainly will be a great launching point for your professional career.

After four years of commitment and long hours of maturing into a "professional" and all that that term connotes, of extensive individual and team experience, and of horizon-broadening changes in your perspective, you'll walk across the stage at your Commencement. You'll be ready to assume the societal obligations placed on engineering practitioners for the health and welfare of our fellow beings on this planet. You'll share the pride felt by each of our 3,500 engineering alumni! You'll be equipped to take on tomorrow's technical challenges because of your experiences here.

So start today…check us out! Be sure to come for a campus visit, either to one of our many scheduled Open Houses from October through April each year, or for a personal tour with an engineering faculty member.