School of Engineering

United Technologies Corporation, General Dynamics-Electric Boat Division and General Electric provide internship, cooperative and entry-level opportunities for our students and graduates.

The School offers an impressive 15:1 ratio of students to faculty – talented professors who are recognized as leaders in engineering education.

The National Science Foundation ranks UConn among top public engineering schools nationwide in annual research expenditures.

Our Engineering Diversity Office offers programs designed for students from groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering, including women and persons of color.

Federal and state agencies, along with private industry, have invested $14.5 million to establish the Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, making this School the home of a world-class fuel cell research center.

School of Engineering

Here at UConn, our graduates don’t just use technology – they make it.

Our engineers design and build the computers, machines, materials, systems and processes that shape the world in ways few others do. To prepare, our undergraduates are involved in cutting-edge research across a range of technical fields, with many interdisciplinary opportunities.

As you look for an education in engineering, science and leading-edge technology, consider UConn’s School of Engineering your destination.

UConn prepares you for careers in leading technology areas – from aerospace and bioengineering, to environmental engineering, to manufacturing and transportation. Our curriculum stresses engineering fundamentals and hands-on exploration and experience:

In our freshman “Orientation to Engineering” course, you will begin to solve real engineering problems and work on teams with your classmates.
All of our students participate in a major design experience, allowing you to put your knowledge to use by developing an engineering project from start to finish.
You may use our computer-aided design facilities to develop drawings, or our machine and electronics shops to prepare a scale-model or working prototype of your design.
You will test your design product in the lab or even see it put to work as a consumer product.

Many of our undergraduates gain additional practical engineering experience by spending a semester or more working for a company. As paid junior engineers, students put engineering knowledge to work immediately – and often make connections that lead to first jobs.

Research is the cornerstone of leading engineering programs, and the University of Connecticut’s School of Engineering is no exception. Here you will work alongside faculty in the following centers and institutes:

Bioinformatics and Biocomputing Institute
Center for Excellence in Transportation Security
Center for Sustainable Energy
Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center
Connecticut Transportation Institute
University Transportation Center

Our Engineering Learning Center puts you to work on engineering projects side-by-side with students from your engineering classes. In our academic departments and research centers, such as the Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies and the University's Institute of Materials Science, you will use state-of-the-art teaching and research labs that feature the latest equipment.

Available Majors

Biomedical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Computer Engineering

Computer Science

Computer Science and Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Engineering Physics

Environmental Engineering

Management and Engineering for Manufacturing

Materials Science and Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Distinguished Faculty

Engineering Faculty - 01

Ugur Pasaogullari, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, won a National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award. He hopes his research on fuel cells will help component designers develop durable, low-cost, high-performing membrane electrode assemblies, resulting in better-performing fuel cells.

Engineering Faculty - 02

Quing Zhu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has developed a unique imaging device that, when used with ultrasound, yields more accurate breast cancer diagnoses. Last year, she was honored with a Connecticut Women of Innovation award in recognition of her outstanding contributions to science.

Engineering Faculty - 03

Jun-Hong Cui, associate professor of computer science and engineering, recently won the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, which recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of academics who are judged likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.

Engineering Faculty - 04

Mekonnen Gebremichael, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is 1 of 18 recipients of a NASA New Investigator Program grant in Earth Sciences. He studies changing global hydrology, chief causes of climate change and how Earth's hydrological systems respond to natural and human-induced changes.

Engineering Faculty - 05

Bryan D. Huey, assistant professor of chemical, materials and biomolecular engineering, runs the Huey Atomic Force Microscopy Lab. The group collaborates with local and international researchers in biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, education, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, medicine and physics.

Successful Alumni

Engineering Alumni - 01

Matthew Adiletta (’85, B.S., Electrical Engineering) is an Intel Fellow and Director of Communication Processor Architecture in Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. He is currently driving the next-generation of network processors for greater packet processing capability and security in future Internet, wireless and enterprise equipment.

Engineering Alumni - 02

Timothy “Scott” Case (’92, B.S.E., Computer Science and Engineering) is co-founder of priceline.com. During his final year at UConn, he co-founded Precision Training Software, a software company that developed the world’s first PC-based simulated flight instructor and photo-realistic flight simulator.

Engineering Alumni - 03

Joel S. Douglas (’77, B.S., Civil Engineering) is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of MysticMD Inc., an early-stage, advanced materials company located at the UConn Technology Incubation Program's Avery Point incubator facility in Groton, Conn. During his career, Joel has founded or co-founded 3 start-ups.

Engineering Alumni - 04

Christine E. Endicott (’08, B.S.E., Chemical Engineering) is pursuing her Ph.D. at Cornell University. A University Honors student, she was president of Omega Chi Epsilon and interned at UTC Power on a product development team for hydrogen fuel cells in submarines.

Engineering Alumni - 05

Julie A. Pollitt (’88, B.S.E., Mechanical Engineering) is a Program Analyst in the Office of Program Analysis and Evaluations, Office of the Administrator at NASA in Washington, D.C. Her duties include product development and reporting on NASA programs and projects for the White House’s Budget and Performance Integration Initiative.