Design Your Future Today
The Department of Engineering at South Mountain was founded to provide an affordable and academically rigorous introductory Engineering program focused on the needs of students planning to major in Engineering at a four-year university.
Students of our leading engineering department have made presentations at national and international conferences, including the undergraduate research symposium at the Universidad Metropolitana Department of Science and Technology in San Jaun, Puerto Rico. To further support our students, we offer The Computer Science, Engineering, and Math Scholarship grant of more than $395,000 for 120 scholarships over four years, with each eligible student receiving $1,500 per semester.
Our site is updated frequently with news and information for current and potential students: please check back regularly!
Program Philosophy
Our engineering courses have been designed to promote learning, teamwork, and problem solving skills. Although our classes are challenging, they are not “weed out” courses, and we do our best to help every student succeed, while making engineering fun.
Give it a Try!
If you're not sure whether engineering is the right major for you, take our ECE102 course. Throughout this introduction, you will learn about the engineering profession, while using EXCEL software to solve engineering type problems. Throughout this class, you will work on a team to design and build a catapult in order to compete against other students.
Contact Information
Division Chair: Tim Frank
Technology Center
Room TC212
602.243.8042
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Course Offerings
- To view a listing of the Math Science and Engineering classes, click here and select a category of interest to obtain additional information.
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Fast Facts
In 2006, engineers held about 1.5 million jobs. The distribution of employment by engineering specialty follows:
- Civil engineers 256,000
- Mechanical engineers 227,000
- Industrial engineers 201,000
- Electrical engineers 153,000
- Electronics engineers, except computer 138,000
- Aerospace engineers 90,000
- Computer hardware engineers 79,000
- Environmental engineers 54,000
- Chemical engineers 30,000
- Health and safety engineers (except mining, safety engineers and inspectors) 25,000
- Materials engineers 22,000
- Petroleum engineers 17,000
- Nuclear engineers 15,000
- Biomedical engineers 14,000
- Marine engineers and naval architects 9,200
- Mining and geological engineers, including:
- Mining safety engineers 7,100
- Agricultural engineers 3,100
- All other engineers 170,000
(Source: US Dept of Labor)