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Why Engineering at Oregon State?
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DOUBLE YOUR DEGREE!
As an OSU engineering student, you can earn two bachelor’s degrees at the same time--one in Engineering and one in Education. This combo not only qualifies you to be a teacher, but also makes you more attractive to employers.
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At Oregon State Engineering, we believe engineering students are people who want to build a better world. Women and men driven to make a difference. Bright people with vision and passion and purpose.
Which is why our engineering program is unlike any you'll find elsewhere.
It's RADICAL, in a very good way.
At Oregon State Engineering, we do things differently. For example, you could begin building your very own robot starting Week One, adding features and functionality as you learn about them in the classroom during the following years. By the time you graduate, you might have a working product prototype! It's our version of hands-on learning… and it was developed at OSU!
Now that's radical.
It's HIGHLY REWARDING, in more ways that one.
At Oregon State Engineering, you can earn an average of $35,000 during two, 6-month paid internships where you'll do real work at real companies—discovering first-hand what it's like to be a working engineer. We call it "work-ready," and it really works: these internships often lead to great job offers before graduation.
Rewarding, indeed!
It's REMARKABLE, and very multi-faceted.
Throughout your studies you'll be engaged in projects and learning adventures that prepare you to become an extraordinary engineer. Like helping build a model steel bridge, a concrete boat, or a Baja race car (and racing it!). Or designing and building a project that just might take you to an international competition where you walk away with top honors and a thousand bucks in your pocket. That's what happened to students Brian Gin, Darren Johnson, and Kalan Guiley. Their baseball-throwing machine landed them on the front page of the Oregonian.
Remarkable? We think so.
It's all about REAL-WORLD WORK that really matters.
You'll do work that makes the world better. Like your year-long "Senior Project," where you'll get to be as creative as you wanna be as part of a 3-student team. Michael Pfohman and fellow students figured out how to manufacture biodiesel, a clean-burning diesel substitute made from used cooking oil. Ryan Harbert and team helped build micro-hydropower turbines the size of house fans that can be dropped into creeks or rivers to produce enough clean electricity to power a house. And Meghaan Smith came to Oregon State because she wants to help engineer a cure for breast cancer, the disease that killed both her grandmothers before she was born. Other students are working on how to improve toxic waste cleanup and engineer river flows that work for both salmon and ranchers.
Real work that really matters... right now.
It's REVOLUTIONARY, in the best sense of the word.
"Out-of-this-world" might be another term for what you'll get to experience at Oregon State Engineering. Heather McCraig and Marci Whittaker have flown on NASA's KC-135 aircraft, fondly known as the "Vomit Comet" because of its in-air acrobatics that mimic zero-gravity conditions. Two of our alumni are NASA astronauts: Don Pettit, who spent six months aboard the International Space Station, and William Oefelein, who is on deck to pilot the Space Shuttle.
Revolutionary!
It's INNOVATIVE, from the infrastructure to the ideology.
If you possess the entrepreneurial spirit, you can live in Weatherford Hall, a historic dormitory that's been renovated to house the university's new Austin Entrepreneurship Program, where engineering, business, and other students live, learn, dine, study, and dream together while they launch the new companies of tomorrow. And the Kelley Engineering Center is the College's crown jewel, a $45-million "green" building located at the heart of campus.
Innovative is right!
It's HIGHLY RATED, and definitely headed to the top.
We're in the midst of a drive to build the OSU College of Engineering into one of the best schools in the country, which is generating unprecedented excitement and opportunity here. Star faculty are coming to Oregon State, many of them passing up offers from top-10 schools because they say there's an energy here they don't see at other programs. And more and more exceptional students are enrolling with us because they want to be part of an engineering school that everyone's buzzing about,
a program bound for the top!
It's the OSU College of Engineering, and it's WAITING for you.
So we invite you to check out Oregon State Engineering. Come visit us and see for yourself how we're very different. Find out why more and more top students are choosing to study here. Learn about the $5.3 million in scholarships Oregon State offers our engineering students each year. Meet the outstanding people who teach and learn here. See for yourself why Oregon State Engineering is all about extraordinary people developing the bold new ideas that fuel the innovation that impacts the world in a positive way.
We're waiting!
Contact us!
James R. Lundy, Assoc. Dean
Oregon State Engineering
101 Covell Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2411
(541) 737-5236
Jim.Lundy@oregonstate.edu
Read our monthly e-newsletter, MOMENTUM! @ OSU Engineering: http://engr.oregonstate.edu/momentum/
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