Engineering at Santa Clara
1912-2005-…
Dr. Mark Ardema
Professor
mardema@scu.edu
http://www.scu.edu/engineering
Vision
To be known and treasured, in Silicon Valley and beyond,
for the impact of our graduates and faculty on improving
the human condition through engineering education,
practice, and scholarship
Students
 Undergraduates: ~500
– ~24% women
 Graduate students: ~700
– 25% fulltime
– 75% part-time
Faculty
 Permanent: 40
– >25% women
(#5 in the U.S.)
 Adjunct: ~80
– 100% Silicon Valley
 Dedicated teaching scholars
 Teach all the classes
Degrees
 BS: electrical, mechanical, civil, computer, general
 MS: above plus software engineering, engineering
management and leadership, applied mathematics
 5-year BS/MS: electrical, mechanical, computer
 Engineer: electrical, mechanical, computer
 Ph.D.: electrical, mechanical, computer
Class Sizes
 Mean: 26 students
 Maximum: 60 students
 Fewer than 20 students: 48%
 More than 50 students: 2%
 Impacted: 0%
Program Strengths
 Civil: seismic design, enviro/sustainable
 Mechanical: mechatronics, thermo, enviro/sustainable
 Electrical: interconnections in ICs, nanotech, analog/testable design,
complex systems
 Computer: parallel computing, multimedia, information security,
software engineering
Community
 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
 Associated General Contractors (AGC)
 Associated Graduate Engineering Students (AGES)
 Engineering and Business Alliance (EBA)
 Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
 Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
 National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
 Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (ChALESS)
 Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
 Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
Design Center
 State-of-the-art design tools
 Unix, Linux, Windows
 Hot SV hardware
Center for Nanostructures
 Field-emission scanning electron microscope
 Top-of-the-line measurement gear
 Fashionable attire
Excitement
 Senior design projects
 Junior design contest
 Underwater robotics
 Undergraduate research
 El Salvador trips, projects
Recognition
Ranked #14 in the U.S.!
US News and World Report September 2005
Distinctiveness
 Small classes
 Close faculty contact
 Teamwork
 Interdisciplinary discovery
 Engineering for social justice
 Silicon Valley jobs, guidance, etc.
 Liberal arts, ethics, religion too
Don’t you wish you could go again?