COLLEGE OF
ENGINEERING
Mourning the loss of Engineering Dean, Dr. Gary Gabriele
On May 14, 2018, College of Engineering Dean Dr. Gary A. Gabriele passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Dr. Gabriele was a visionary leader who led the College in developing intellectual and humanitarian engineers who are technical innovators and contributors to the greater community.
As a means of honoring his memory, his family has asked that an Engineering scholarship fund be established in his name.
HOW WILL YOU IGNITE CHANGE?
Villanova engineers are rigorously educated, socially grounded, conscientious thinkers and doers who are professionally prepared to make meaningful change in the world.
Our collaboratively competitive community of undergraduate through doctoral students benefits from faculty members who are experts in their fields and recognized for excellence in teaching, applied learning techniques and scholarly research. They prepare and educate engineers to be society’s future innovators and technical leaders, and help students develop the broad-based leadership skills they need to grow professionally and collaborate effectively across disciplines.
Built on a foundation of academic excellence, community, ethical leadership and service, Villanova University College of Engineering offers an engineering education that ignites both hearts and minds, creating wisdom to shape the world.
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ALL PROGRAMS
BACHELOR'S
MASTER'S
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THE VILLANOVA ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
Villanova’s engineering curriculum offers a variety of practical, hands-on opportunities for all students.
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
Villanova Engineering undergraduates are prepared professionally through the Career Compass program.
CAREER READINESS
Villanova Engineers apply their skills in communities around the world.
SERVICE LEARNING
Villanova Engineering provides undergraduates with opportunities inside and outside the classroom to explore their passions.
UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCE
Students can pursue independent research or research with faculty.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Graduate students can earn their degrees full-time, part-time or online.
GRADUATE OPTIONS
Engineering majors study abroad, serve internationally and conduct research globally.
STUDY ABROAD
ENGINEERING AT A GLANCE
95.9%
SUCCESSFUL UNDERGRADUATE PLACEMENT RATE
95%
GRADUATE WITH INTERNSHIP, RESEARCH OR MILITARY EXPERIENCE
444
MASTER'S & PhD STUDENTS
76%
OF MASTER'S STUDENTS GRADUATE WITHIN 3 YEARS
29%
FEMALE ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES
#13
NATIONAL RANKING FOR PERCENTAGE OF FEMALE FACULTY
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ENGINEERING NEWS
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Using the University's virtual reality CAVE, Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Mark Jupina, PhD, has developed a virtual hitting simulator—PITCHvr—that's teaching batters how to read an incoming pitch.
VUSP Awarded Grant Through Delaware River Watershed Initiative
The Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership has been awarded $565,000 to continue its efforts in clean water protection for the suburban-Philadelphia-area watersheds.
Prestigious NSF CAREER Grant Awarded to College’s First Female Recipient
Wenqing Xu, PhD, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s coveted CAREER grant for her work in developing engineering solutions that will effectively destroy environmental contaminants.
Villanova Engineers Recognized with NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Two recent Villanova Engineering graduates were awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Thomas Gill ’16 ME is a PhD student at Stanford University and Stephanie Jones ’18 ECE will be pursuing her PhD at Northwestern University.