The field of engineering continues to evolve. Embrace the challenge with this four-year program that integrates mechanical and electrical engineering. Small class sizes ensure that you work closely with professors and engage state-of-the-art technology. Experience transformative internships and work in environments that bolster creativity and community.
Our mission is to deliver a transformative education within a nurturing Christian environment. We strive to inspire innovation, cultivate a Christian worldview in engineering contexts, and empower our students to use their engineering knowledge and skills to make a meaningful impact on humanity.
As a Greenville University engineering student, you:
Receive personal mentoring, hands-on training, and guidance from top faculty, physicists, and mathematicians.
Hone your skills with rare, hands-on experience in advanced laboratories through summer research and internships.
Strengthen your character and connections in our small, close-knit environment.
Earn an excellent foundation for further study at top universities or work with prestigious international laboratories and employers.
Are prepared to pursue work in industry or for graduate work.
Learn people and project management skills to help you advance your engineering career.
Program Objectives
Complex Problem Solving: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Design & Constraints: An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability.
Effective Communication: An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
Ethical Responsibility: An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, considering global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.
Team Leadership: An ability to function effectively on a team whose members provide leadership, create a collaborative environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
Experimentation & Data: An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.
Lifelong Learning: An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
Christian Mind & Character: A commitment to serve the world with passion and integrity that stem from a Christian mind and character.
Stewardship
Christian engineers recognize and appreciate God’s designs and materials in nature, often incorporating these divine elements into their own engineering creations. The Engineering program has three primary objectives in integrating the discipline with Christian faith.
We aim for our students to perceive the created order beyond materialistic and naturalistic philosophies, viewing it through a well-informed Christian worldview.
We strive to help our students recognize God’s power and understand the divine nature through His creations.
We seek to inspire our students to be humble, lifelong seekers of God’s truth.
The Engineering program equips engineers to be creative and skillful practitioners, following God’s command to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength” (Mark 12:30). Additionally, we embrace the biblical principle to “Love your neighbor as yourself ” (Mark 12:31), fostering collaboration and teamwork within our engineering community. We are called not only to be good stewards of God’s creation but also blessed to “fill the earth and steward it,” applying our engineering skills to responsibly manage and innovate within the created world. Relevant issues arise naturally in courses such as Engineering Project Management, Engineering Ethics, and the Senior Design sequence, where students exemplify Christlike character by loving their neighbors and designing complex engineering products with a responsibility for the earth’s resources.
Why GU
Christ-centered
At GU, you'll experience professors who integrate the Christian faith into their curriculum and experiences both inside and outside of the classroom.
Connections
The engineering program utilizes global contacts in the engineering industry to help students find internships and jobs, network, and identify resources that support start-ups.
Passion and Calling
With an emphasis on passion and calling, Greenville University inspires students to embrace God’s call. This includes students drawn to engineering with its potential to impact medicine, technology, creation care, and more.
Character and Service
What a value it is to an employer to hire an engineer skilled in their craft, ethically minded, of good character, and trained in project management.
