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MATH, COMPUTING & ENGINEERING

Our world is growing and shrinking. There are more people, larger cities, and faster computers than ever before. There are roads to places we didn’t believe we could go, possibilities we didn’t know existed. Websites proliferate at an astounding rate. There is more information to store, organize, and communicate. There are buildings to build and products to produce. And there are still so many questions.

Who asks and answers those questions? Where are we going, and who will get us there? Who builds the world?

Whether we’re cruising the interstate or the information superhighway, our travel has been made possible by people who asked questions, solved problems, and provided solutions—builders and creators who have made life better for all of us. Are you one of those people?

Mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists are fascinated by how things work and why. They ask questions whose answers improve our quality of life. They design safer cars, calculate risks, invent artificial hearts, and build robots. They create new materials and make complicated technologies easy to understand. They see the future, and they take us there.

Student Profile

“I had no idea what an engineer was when I came to college-in fact, I planned to be a business major-but through the Summer Bridge Program offered by Minority Science and Engineering, I was able to meet professional engineers from companies like IBM and Boeing. I soon realized that engineers solve problems that affect our everyday lives-like making sure there’s an adequate supply of clean drinking water or that artificial joints are not rejected by the body. Hands-on experience is invaluable in the high-tech world, and I’ve had lots-from assisting the director of UW Engineered Biomaterials with his research on the corrosion of cardiovascular stents to spending a summer building Europa, Jupiter’s moon-bound space probe at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The best part of this field is that every week I think of something new I’d like to do and realize that an engineering background can take me there.”