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As one of the largest undergraduate engineering programs in the United States, the OSU College of Engineering has a national reputation for graduating work-ready engineers who can hit the ground running and excel as team players. As undergraduates, these women and men experience learning innovations that enable them to apply human and global perspectives to solve real-world problems. Using interactive learning platforms, OSU’s students apply classroom theory to real-world devices. Students also engage in highly collaborative, cutting-edge research projects that span academic disciplines, an opportunity many schools reserve for graduate students only. Many students also participate in two, 6-month, paid internships where they gain on-the-job engineering experience, and earn 70% of an average engineer’s starting salary. In fact, over 80% of OSU engineering students participate in internship opportunities while at OSU.

Offering more engineering majors than any other engineering college in the Pacific Northwest, OSU graduates engineers with a wide range of skills who go on to innovate new technologies, products, and processes. Our graduates include: Tim Leatherman, inventor of the original Leatherman Tool; Linus Pauling, the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes; Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse and the concept of email; Patrick Connolly, executive vice president and general manager of Williams Sonoma; and the four founders of CH2M HILL.