The Engineering Department at Swarthmore prides itself in providing a solid background in Engineering while providing the freedom to students to pursue their desired focuses as well as learn in the spirit of a liberal arts education.

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The structure of the department's curriculum permits engineering majors to devote as much as three-eighths of their course work to the humanities and social sciences. Within their 4-year course of study, about half of our majors pursue either a minor or a double major, often leading to two degrees: the bachelor of science in engineering and a bachelor of arts in a second academic discipline.

E5 - Engineering Metholodgy

E5 students have transferred their SolidWorks designs into foam material: