Students interested in studying environmental or electrical engineering will have more choices, thanks to an articulation agreement between Bloomsburg University and Penn State Harrisburg.
The agreement permits qualified students to study for three years at Bloomsburg, graduate with a bachelor's degree and be guaranteed admission to Penn State Harrisburg to complete an engineering degree in two years. At Bloomsburg, the "3+2" cooperative program will be coordinated by the physics department, which has a dozen students enrolled in the pre-engineering curriculum.
The environmental engineering program at Penn State Harrisburg prepares its graduates to analyze, design and manage air pollution control, water supply, waste water treatment, solid waste handling and hazardous waste systems. The electrical engineering program provides a solid background in electrical engineering sciences and gives students an opportunity to pursue interests in digital circuits, microprocessors, electromagnetics and digital image processing.
The cooperative program was created in an effort to fulfill a number of objectives, including:
n To provide a general education in liberal arts and sciences as well as engineering education for each student enrolled so that through five years of study, a student may complete degree requirements which normally could require six or more years;
n To provide a student who has not yet decided between engineering and other disciplines, additional time to make that decision;
n To enable qualified students to receive both a liberal and technical education at relatively low cost and, in so doing, provide the Commonwealth and nation with broadly educated engineers.