Explore all majors

in your first year

Our common first-year curriculum opens the door to the full spectrum of engineering, giving students the chance to discover, experiment, and imagine what’s possible across every discipline.

Along the way, you’ll have dedicated support at the center of your experience.

Teaching foundational engineering concepts while incorporating hands-on learning and design by day one
The first-year advising team is here to support all first-year students, regardless of major interest, until they officially confirm their major before their second year
Each cohort of students will have a Learning Assistant and Peer Mentor, to support students, connect them to resources, and provide tutoring for success
Groups of 30 students will take up to three courses together to foster community and support
ENGR 111: Fundamentals of Engineering
ENGR 114: Engineering for Grand Challenges

Want to engineer a world of difference?

Here’s how!

Through our multidisciplinary approach, students learn to create products and solutions to tackle problems in human and animal health.
Learn to design and optimize products and processes that improve human health, create clean energy, develop advanced materials, and protect the environment.
Use innovative methods and technology to design, build, and maintain resilient and sustainable infrastructure.
Gain the knowledge to improve, advance, and protect intelligent computing systems.
Design, plan, and build the civil and water infrastructure needed for a resilient and sustainable world.
Learn to innovate and connect people with devices and systems that are beyond imagination.
Use cutting-edge technologies to identify and design sustainable solutions for today’s most pressing environmental problems.
Learn to design, develop, and manufacture environmental, transportation, health, fabrication, and energy systems essential to people and their communities.

86%

Students who said they would choose their major again

91%

CSU engineering graduates who said that a faculty or staff member made a postive influence in their education