Many Routes To An Engineering Career
Lock Haven University offers a pre-engineering program which can be a solid foundation leading to a career in engineering. Several options are available for the student to complete an engineering degree:

1. The five year dual-degree programs require three years of pre-engineering work at LHU followed by two years work in an engineering program at another school. LHU awards the "second degree", either a B.A. in Natural and Mathematical Sciences/Physics or a B.S. in Physics. This second degree is awarded upon completion of the engineering degree at the second school. Though this option may be completed at any accredited engineering school, Lock Haven has formal agreements with two schools, listed below.
2. The cooperative five-year dual degree program with The Pennsylvania State University is like option (1), but with the advantage of guaranteed admission to PSU if the requirements of the first three years have been met.
3. The co-op program with the Penn State-Erie (Behrend) campus, is like option two, but includes just two fields: Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
4. Students who intend eventually to pursue a graduate degree in engineering may take a four-year physics major at LHU first, then (at another school) do graduate work in engineering. Many graduate engineering schools eagerly recruit students with this background.
5. Some students spend two years at LHU taking pre-engineering courses, then transfer to an engineering school for two years to complete an engineering degree. This option is appropriate for students who do not want a "second degree" and who have sufficiently strong academic records to meet the admissions requirements of the other school.

The Five-Year (3-2) BSBS Dual-Degree Option
The dual degree program where one obtains a BS in engineering and a BS in Physics, is a more technical curriculum at LHU. With this option the foreign language and liberal arts seminar are replaced with additional physics courses.

The first three years at LHU are spent taking pre-engineering work in math and sciences, as well as a broad spectrum of liberal arts courses. The last two academic years, at another school, are spent in intensive concentration in engineering course work.

Why Lock Haven?
There are good reasons why a student might choose to begin pre-engineering work at Lock Haven University:

• Costs are lower; only 3/4 as much as some of the large schools in PA.
• A smaller school can provide a more relaxed environment, smaller classes, and opportunity for closer interaction with faculty.
• Flexibility: The pre-engineering curriculum is similar to that of programs in physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and other science pre-professional programs. The student who changes career goals may make relatively easy transfers to and from these related fields.

Not For Everyone
Engineering programs are very demanding of time and talent. The required courses are intensive and course loads are heavy. Since engineering schools' admissions requirements are very high, the engineering student must maintain a high quality grade point average.

Students with the best chance of success in engineering are those with very strong records in high school mathematics supported by good grades in other courses. Students with inadequate preparation in trigonometry and/or analytic geometry may not be ready to begin calculus immediately and may be advised to take pre-calculus mathematics courses. In such a case, the prospective student might consider taking a course in elementary functions in the summer prior to the freshman year, at Lock Haven University or some other college or university.
ADVISORS FOR THE 3-2 ENGINEERING PROGRAM

Dr. Anura Goonewardene, Assistant Professor of Physics, Ulmer 223, agoonewa@lhup.edu, (570) 893-2079
Dr. John D. Reid, Assistant Professor of Physics, Ulmer 226 jreid@lhup.edu, (570) 893-2078
Dr. James Wheeler, Associate Professor of Physics, Ulmer 228, jwheeler@lhup.edu, (570) 893-2054