Choosing a Challenge

You’re interested in engineering but not in narrowing your study to one discipline. Your career plans may include a non-traditional use of engineering skills and knowledge. Flexibility and variety in course selection are important as you develop a degree track.

You are an ideal candidate for engineering science. This degree is designed for students who don’t fit into traditional engineering majors. You will be under the umbrella of the aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics department, but you may pursue a number of disciplines.
This is a challenging path that is not for everyone. You must be independent, creative, and confident enough to create a program of study. Your reward is a degree that has prepared you to pursue a tremendous variety of options once you graduate.


From Engineering Science to a Profession
Engineering Science covers the fundamentals of engineering, and it allows you to customize your education by combining the study of various disciplines while leaving room for elective classes. Many engineering graduates use the flexibility to carefully prepare for graduate school. After a degree in engineering science, past graduates have pursued

• biomechanics
• acoustics
• energy systems
• robotics
• law
• medicine
• graduate study
  

More about Engineering Science at Iowa State.

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