Colleges of engineering are very strong academic/research organizations but they usually offer courses only for their own majors. The sciences and mathematics typically offer extensive courses for non-majors. Often, these are required courses for the non-majors and the aggregate of the non-major courses may exceed those offered for their own undergraduates. The practice of colleges of engineering not to offer courses for non-engineers isolates engineering and deprives engineering colleges from allies in other colleges, cuts them off from sources of students in the very groups engineering would like to entice, and misses the opportunity to educate other majors about the contributions engineering has made and will make to society. Instances of engineering college courses offered for non-majors are discussed and the characteristics and topics for additional courses are presented.
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