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.

Engineering education is of significant value to students who will pursue careers other than engineering, e.g. 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.

This new program cultivates a new breed of 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 - humanities, social sciences, mathematics or natural sciences. Such an educational environment also cultivates a multitude of thinking styles…it’s Renaissance thinking for the technological era.

Please contact Jeffrey R. Milet for information about this exciting new program.