A Major University
With Personalized Attention
The School of Engineering gives you the best of both worlds: a large University
for a broad range of activities and small personalized attention.—Heather
Lishman
Faculty
The faculty and professors in the Freshman Engineering Program are
not only great educators, but are caring individuals both in and out of the
classroom. They make class entertaining and create a great atmosphere for the
learning process.—Joe Pasqualichio
All our faculty members teach! Pitt is a research university but teaching and
researching are equal priorities. The ratio of full-time faculty to
undergraduate students is relatively low to keep our classes small and the
professors accessible. Your professors will know you, and you will know your
professors.
Many of our full-time faculty are licensed engineers and virtually all have
advanced degrees and industry experience. Many of our faculty have
international reputations that put Pitt at the top of the list in research.
Facilities
The engineering curriculum exposes students to “real-life”
applications of the material presented. Labs and research experience become the
classroom.—Martha Loehr
Your new home away from home will be Benedum Hall, or more formally, the
Michael L. Benedum Hall of Engineering. Our students spend lots of time here!
Dedicated in 1971, the 14-story building houses
classrooms, laboratories, and a 65,000-volume library dedicated to engineering.
The Thackeray level is home to freshman engineering, study abroad, and Co-Op
Engineering, as well as other services just for students.
In addition to the eight University-wide computer labs, the Swanson School of
Engineering operates special-purpose computer labs exclusively for engineering
students and faculty. Some of these labs are open 24 hours a day. Having your
own computer is helpful, but you don’t need it with the number of
computers and modern software that is available to you.
School Size
The Engineering School is a close-knit community of friends and
people all working toward the same goal. It is wonderful to attend a school
where everyone knows everyone else, creating a family atmosphere.—Andy
Hutelmeyer
Pitt enrolls about 30,000 students each year. Technically, that’s correct,
but that number includes evening, part-time, Saturday, graduate, medical, law,
and dental students. Full-time undergraduate enrollment at the Oakland campus
is closer to 14,000. The Swanson School of Engineering has 1,600 undergraduate
students. With a freshman class size of around 400, the Swanson School of Engineering
remains a relatively cozy academic haven—a personalized learning
environment within a major research university.
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