Dean's message
Zella L. Kahn-Jetter, Ph.D., P.E.
Welcome to the Saint Martin’s University School of Engineering website.
This is a great time to be considering a career in engineering, and
Saint Martin’s is a great place to earn your degree. The School of
Engineering has two accredited (ABET/EAC) programs: civil engineering
and mechanical engineering. The first two years share a common
pre-engineering program. In your junior year you branch off into your
program of study. In civil engineering you pursue advanced study in
four major areas: geotechnical, transportation and
construction management, water resources and environmental, and
structural. In
mechanical engineering you study thermal, fluid, and mechanical systems.
In your senior year you have the opportunity to specialize in the
various areas of civil or mechanical engineering. Also during your
senior year, you will participate in a major capstone design course
covering two semesters which captures all that you have learned during
the previous three years, and addresses a real-world engineering design
problem.
For those of you visiting with an engineering degree, we offer two
graduate programs: a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering (MCE) and a
Master’s Degree in Engineering Management (MEM). The MCE Program is
designed to provide engineering and science graduates with specialized
technical knowledge oriented toward professional engineering practice
within civil engineering. The MEM program emphasizes the continuity of
management and engineering-related efforts from planning through design
and execution.
Society needs engineers; whether it is to treat water so you can
drink it, improve upon the infrastructure that we use every day, create
robots, or design new bio-medical devices that can change the way we
treat the sick, engineers play an important role. They are the unsung heroes of society.
There has
never been a better time to study engineering than now, especially at Saint Martin’s
University.
We are in a period of renewed growth and are building a new engineering
building. This facility will be a state of the art learning center and
will provide an opportunity for collaboration between students, faculty,
and the community.
I hope to see you here soon.
As you maneuver your way through our pages, please look at some of
the exciting designs that our students have worked on recently and
examples of our previous capstone design
projects.
Zella Kahn-Jetter Ph.D., P.E.
Dean, School of Engineering