Engineering and Physics (non-accredited)
Concentration Advisors:
Engineering: Prof. A. Zaslavsky, B&H 222, x3-1406, Alexander_Zaslavsky@brown.edu;
Physics: Prof. I. Dell'Antonio, x3-1154, Ian_Dell'Antonio@brown.edu
Our aim in creating this combined concentration is to ensure that students take a significant portion of the usual Engineering and Physics program, obtain substantial laboratory experience, and take several upper-level elective courses, focusing on applied material. The program is designed so that students can take either the standard Physics or Engineering programs during their freshman and sophomore years and then switch to this combined program.
Concentration Requirements:
The total number of courses required for the program is 19. (We assume that a student begins his or her mathematics courses at Brown with Math 0190 or its equivalent.) The courses are as follows:
• Physics 0050-0060, or Physics 0070-0080, or Engineering 0030-0040.
• Math 0170-0180 (or, equivalently, Math 0190-0200) and three additional math or applied math courses (two of which are usually Applied Math 0330-0340 or Applied Math 0350-0360).
• Computer Science 0040 or higher-level programming course like Computer Science 0150.
• Physics 0470, 1510 or Engineering 0510, 1560.
• Physics 0500 or Engineering 1370.
• Physics 1410-1420.
• Physics 1530 or Engineering 0720.
• Engineering 1620.
• One course from the following: Engineering 0310, Engineering 0810, Chemistry 0330 or a Physics course on Continuum Mechanics.
• One course from the following: Engineering 1690, Engineering 0410, Physics 0560.
• One course from the following: Physics 1560, Engineering 1590, or a 200-level Engineering or Physics course as approved by the concentration advisor
• A thesis under the supervision of a Physics faculty member (Physics 1980) or Engineering faculty member (Engineering 1970/1971). Students are also encouraged to consider taking courses dealing with philosophical, ethical or political aspects of science and technology.
To accommodate the diverse preparation of individual students, variations of the above sequences and their prerequisites are possible with permission of the appropriate concentration advisor and the instructors involved. We recommend that each student’s degree program be submitted for prior approval (typically in semester four) and scrutinized for compliance (in semester seven) by one faculty member from the Department of Physics and one faculty member from the Division of Engineering.
