Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College; Stephen Jodis, Saint Vincent College; Stacy Birmingham, Saint Vincent College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

resources – programfunding, lab and classroom space, equipment, software, etc. New programs must also buildawareness and connections with the local community, industry, and government to attractstudents, offer meaningful learning experiences, and build job placement pipelines. In addition,they must ensure they conform with and enhance the educational mission of the colleges they arepart of. While this can impose limiting curricular constraints, it can also be seen as anopportunity to develop a unique educational product. In 2013, Saint Vincent College (a smallcollege with a strong liberal arts and sciences focus) initiated a four-year bachelor's degree inengineering science after several years of planning. In the decade since that time, the