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IDEAS
Interdisciplinary Degree Engineering Arts and Sciences
 IDEAS is a four-year honors program, resulting in a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Integrated Degree in Engineering, Arts, and Sciences (IDEAS), jointly administered by the College of Arts & Sciences and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science.
Technical education is of significant value not only to engineering and science students, but also to students who will pursue careers in law, medicine, government, architecture, the fine arts, performing arts, journalism, business, education, etc.. Indeed, the complex challenges and problems confronting us in the 21st century dramatically underscore the importance of liberally educated and technologically sophisticated individuals whose habits of thought are thoroughly, comfortably interdisciplinary. Moreover, Lehigh is one of a small number of universities possessing the resources necessary to provide such an education and have a variety of interdisciplinary programs in place. The students in these programs will benefit from the integrated, strategic leveraging of strengths across college boundaries within the University.
The program cultivates cross-disciplinary innovators, in order to provide an education that produces students well versed in dual focus areas – one in engineering and one in the liberal arts. Such an educational environment encompasses a multitude of thinking styles…it’s Renaissance thinking for the modern world.
Please contact Bruce Thomas or William Best for information about this exciting new program.
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