Prospective Students
At TCU, we believe in offering a unique undergraduate learning experience. Founded upon the belief to do more than just teach technical skills, our faculty emphasizes communication, teamwork, and systems-level thinking throughout the program. We provide hands-on experience with state-of-the-art equipment and offer research opportunities to many of our undergraduate students.
We maintain small class sizes, which allows for student-faculty interaction outside of the classroom. TCU faculty members teach all of our engineering classes, because we're interested in you and your undergraduate education. We want to get to know you on a personal basis.
Small student/teacher ratio
With a student/teacher ratio of about 12:1, you'll get the individual attention you need. And all the engineering lectures and laboratories are taught by professors not graduate assistants.
Why should I study engineering at TCU?
Interdisciplinary degree
At TCU, we produce well-rounded engineers with excellent communication skills who are ready to deal with the changing world. You'll receive a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering with an electrical or mechanical emphasis, so you'll have the hands-on experience and technical skills you need to succeed. But you'll also receive a good liberal arts education, so you'll understand the social and physical world and cultivate the skills needed for lifelong learning.
Senior design project
The Capstone Design Project helps make TCU's engineering program unique. Each year, the senior class forms a company and signs a contract with a real customer to design and produce a product. It's a real-world experience that you won't find at most universities. In addition, the clients - which have included Alcon Laboratories, Bell Helicopter Textron, RockBit Industries, and Endevco - really use the products.
Research opportunities
At TCU, you won't be sitting on the sidelines. You can work with your professors on research projects as early as your freshman year. That means you'll quickly gain hands-on experience in cutting-edge research fields, as well as learn how to co-author journal articles and present research at conferences and workshops.
State-of-the-art facilities
The Department of Engineering currently has seven teaching laboratories and four research laboratories. In the not-so-distant future, the department will move into the new Tucker Technology Center. This facility will include 86,667 gross square feet of space and will also house TCU's computer science and mathematics programs.