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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.
Our collaboratively competitive community of undergraduate through doctoral students benefit from faculty members who are industry experts 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 that give them the footing they need to grow professionally and collaborate effectively across disciplines.
Villanova engineers are rigorously educated, socially grounded, conscientious thinkers and doers who are professionally prepared to make meaningful change in the world.
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THE VILLANOVA ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
ENGINEERING AT A GLANCE
92.1%
SUCCESSFUL UNDERGRADUATE PLACEMENT RATE
90%
WHO WANT AN INTERNSHIP HAVE AT LEAST ONE
483
GRADUATE STUDENTS
88%
OF MASTER'S STUDENTS GRADUATE WITHIN 3 YEARS
33%
FEMALE ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES
93.5%
FRESHMAN-TO-SOPHOMORE RETENTION RATE
ENGINEERING NEWS
CubeSat Club and AIAA Launch Villanova’s First Weather Balloons
In early May, two groups of Villanovans launched the University’s first weather balloons. For the CubeSat Club, the goal was to test the radio beacon and ground station antenna they built last year on the roof of Tolentine, and gather telemetry readings including pressure, altitude, temperature, and humidity.
Dr. Moeness Amin Awarded Signal Processing Best Paper Award
The 2021 Best Paper Award in Signal Processing, an Elsevier journal, is given to "DOA estimation exploiting a uniform linear array with multiple co-prime frequencies." Co-authored by Villanova College of Engineering’s Dr. Moeness Amin, director of the Center for Advanced Communications, the paper designs the optimum array configuration for direction finding of targets, as well as radio frequency emitters.
College Recognizes Exceptional Seniors at Dean’s Award Event
The Campus Green was a site for celebration on April 22 when the College of Engineering recognized its Academic Excellence and Meritorious Service awardees. Departments also presented senior medallions and the recipient of the College’s highest honor, the Robert D. Lynch Award, was announced.
The pipeline hack exposed America's infrastructure security vulnerabilities | KYW NewsRadio In Depth, May 13, 2021
The hacking of the Colonial Pipeline caused problems with gasoline supply along the East Coast. Villanova’ Dr. Scott Jackson, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering talks about the ripple effects of the pipeline hack and how the pandemic has made its mark on energy.
Dr. Robert Traver Recipient of AAWRE 2021 Service to the Academy Award
Dr. Robert G. Traver has been announced as the recipient of the 2021 Service to the Academy Award by the American Academy of Water Resources Engineers (AAWRE), a subsidiary of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is recognized for his significant contributions and work in furthering the mission and goals of the Academy.