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The Niagara University Pre-Engineering Program is about to be shut down. Students who wish to study engineering should apply to other universities.
Program Overview
The Pre-Engineering Program at Niagara is Associate's Degree
program in Engineering. A student who completes the program successfully may transfer to an
engineering school at the Junior level to complete a bachelor's degree program
in engineering. Niagara's Pre-Engineering Program has agreements
with the following engineering schools.
- New Dual Admissions Program with SUNY at Buffalo's
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences:
This program means that a student admitted to
Niagara's Pre-Engineering Program is simultaneously admitted to the
University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The
agreement provides that
Students selected for matriculation in this program will, upon
satisfactory completion of a prescribed sequence of courses leading to an
associate degree from Niagara University, continue their studies at the
University at Buffalo with assurance that they may complete all requirements
for a corresponding baccalaureate degree by taking four additional semesters
of normal work except, if a student is chosen to participate in an
internship semester at UB, additional course work beyond four semesters may
be necessary. This assumes the completion of the required credit
hours, required grade point average (GPA) and required prerequisite courses.
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University of Detroit Mercy's
College of Engineering and Science:
This is an Articulation Agreement under which a student who completes the
Engineering Program at Niagara with sufficiently high grades can transfer
to the University of Detroit Mercy
with all courses required in Niagara's Engineering program accepted
for transfer credit and fulfilling analogous requirements in the Detroit
Mercy Engineering program.
Note that a Niagara student is not required to
transfer to the University at Buffalo or to Detroit Mercy, but may continue his or her engineering
studies at any school of engineering into which he or she is accepted.
The program gives the student an intensive background in mathematics
and the sciences, including a year of engineering graphics. Thus, the
student who completes the program is well prepared for upper level
engineering studies; or, should the student decide to remain at Niagara,
he or she is well prepared for a major in
Mathematics,
Chemistry, or
Computer and Information Sciences.
Many students enter Niagara's Pre-Engineering Program unsure if engineering
is the field they wish to pursue. Some of these students eventually
change their majors (either before or after finishing the Associate's
Degree program) in order to complete a Bachelor's degree at Niagara.
Niagara's organizational structure makes this easier to do than at many
other universities: while at many universities, such a change of major
would require the student to switch registration from the engineering
college to, say, the liberal arts college, Niagara's engineering program
is run by the
College of Arts and Sciences,
making such a change of status unnecessary for a student whose new major is in
that college.
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Courses Required
Core Courses
- MAT 111 (Calculus I)
- MAT 112 (Calculus II)
- MAT 221 (Calculus III)
- MAT 222 (Differential Equations)
- MAT 102 or 435 (Statistics) - should take 435 for Detroit-Mercy
- MAT 228 (Linear Algebra)
- EGR 115 (Engineering Graphics I)
- EGR 225 (Engineering Graphics II)
- EGR 202 Circuit Analysis I
- EGR 204 Thermodynamics
- EGR 207 Statics
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CHE 111 (General Chemistry I)
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CHE 112 (General Chemistry II)
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PHY 121 (General Physics I)
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PHY 122 (General Physics II)
- CIS 265 (Computer Science I)
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Additional for Chemical/Plastics/Environmental Engineering
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CHE 113 (lab for CHE 111)
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CHE 114 (lab for CHE 112)
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CHE 221 (Organic Chemistry I)
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CHE 222 (Organic Chemistry II)
Liberal Arts Courses
- WRT 100 (Thinking and Writing)
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ENG 100 (Intro. to Literature)
- REL 100 level
- PHI 205 (Intro. to Philosophy)
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Faculty
Mr. Jean Rensel, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, is our instructor in Engineering Graphics
and Computer Aided Design (CAD). He has an MBA degree from Niagara
University and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering Technology
from Pennsylvania State University - Capitol Campus. Mr. Rensel works
full time as Manager of Engineering Services for Carborundum in
Amherst, NY.
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More Info/Program Secretary
The Engineering Secretary/Receptionist/Office Manager/Fixit Specialist is Ms.
Margaret "Maggie" McGurk. Maggie is an important person to know,
not only for Pre-Engineering, but also for the Niagara University
Computer and Information Sciences
Department and the
Honors Program,
both of which she also serves.
To reach Maggie:
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phone: (716) 286-8444
fax: (716) 286-8445
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e-mail: mcg@niagara.edu
snail-mail: Engineering Program
Niagara University, NY 14109
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This page created and maintained by
Dr. Laurence Boxer, Professor of Department of Computer and
Information Sciences and Chair of the Pre-Engineering Program.
To reach Dr. Boxer:
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phone: (716) 286-8447
fax: (716) 286-8445
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e-mail: boxer@niagara.edu
snail-mail: Engineering Program
Niagara University, NY 14109
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