Future Undergraduates

Find your path

to address

global challenges

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.

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Chris Torres, common first year faculty

Dedicated first-year engineering faculty

Teaching foundational engineering concepts while incorporating hands-on learning and design by day one
Casual outdoor portrait of Kayla Cothrun on the west approach to the Scott Bioengineering Building at CSU.

Dedicated first-year advisors

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
Lauren Watts, a student learning assistant stands for a portrait photo

Built-in peer mentoring with learning assistants

Each cohort of students will have a Learning Assistant and Peer Mentor, to support students, connect them to resources, and provide tutoring for success

Cohort scheduling

Groups of 30 students will take up to three courses together to foster community and support

Hands-on introductory engineering courses

ENGR 111: Fundamentals of Engineering
ENGR 114: Engineering for Grand Challenges

Change your engineering major anytime during your first year!

Want to engineer a world of difference?

Here’s how!

Colorado State University student in biomedical and mechanical engineering, Monte Kalsbeek, works on their senior design project of creating menstrual pad inserts out of corn husk fiber for a more sustainable menstrual product for third world countries.

Biomedical Engineering

Through our multidisciplinary approach, students learn to create products and solutions to tackle problems in human and animal health.
ChemECube students working on their project in 2024.

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Learn to design and optimize products and processes that improve human health, create clean energy, develop advanced materials, and protect the environment.
Two students from CSU's ASCE design team work on their project during the ASCE event, Spring 2025.

Civil Engineering

Use innovative methods and technology to design, build, and maintain resilient and sustainable infrastructure.
Students in ECE 202 demonstrate their class projects during 2024's E-Days. April 17, 2024

Computer Engineering

Gain the knowledge to improve, advance, and protect intelligent computing systems.
Colorado State University Construction Management students Alex Thompson and Mariah Shrake work on the construction of CSU’s Translational Medicine Institute during an internship with JE Dunn Construction, June 11, 2018.

Construction Engineering

Design, plan, and build the civil and water infrastructure needed for a resilient and sustainable world.
An ece student works on electronics in a lab.

Electrical Engineering

Learn to innovate and connect people with devices and systems that are beyond imagination.
Student adjusts setting on cookstove device while other students observe and work on a laptop.

Environmental Engineering

Use cutting-edge technologies to identify and design sustainable solutions for today’s most pressing environmental problems.
A mechanical engineering student works at a machine in a lab.

Mechanical Engineering

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
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