Science Based
Your strong base in math, computation and physics enables you to solve engineering problems faster, and across a wider range of applications.
Industry, Research, Business
JCU students can apply their degree in traditional or emerging engineering fields, or advance to graduate education.
Future Proof
By mastering foundational principles, you remain marketable across many engineering disciplines (aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical).
BS in Engineering Physics
You will benefit from a curriculum that emphasizes modern physics and its application to 21st century materials and technology. You’ll learn mathematical methods of physics and engineering, along with advanced computer-based electronics and instrumentation. Overall, your curriculum emphasizes computational analysis, electronic devices, engineering design and biomedical application, making you a good candidate for a range of careers in engineering, from electrical to aerospace, biomedical and civil.
In addition to gaining scientific knowledge and bedrock technological skills, your core curriculum classes (English, humanities, philosophy) will sharpen your oral and written communication skills, and develop you as a well-rounded person that employers and graduate schools value.
Why Engineering Physics at JCU?
Mathematical and Computational Backbone
You will master pure and applied mathematics — the essential components of modern engineering. By combining courses in mathematics, statistics, physical sciences, and engineering, you will gain the foundation necessary to apply physics principles to practical engineering problems. Together, your classes and experiential learning through laboratories, research, and internships will prepare you for careers in industry or research, as well as for graduate studies in engineering.
Ohio’s Engineering Future
John Carroll University joins Ohio’s top universities in an Intel-sponsored program to establish semiconductor manufacturing education and research. Intel will invest $50 million directly in Ohio higher education institutions. An additional $50 million from Intel will be matched by $50 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation in national funding opportunities.
Labs and Research Experience
As a John Carroll Engineering Physics student, you will join a long tradition of producing publishable research alongside faculty. Access to our fully equipped laboratory spaces and interaction with research and internship partners will build your technical knowledge and skills and sharpen your data collection, analysis and synthesis abilities.
Top Faculty
John Carroll engineering physics faculty publish in top research journals and have won national recognition for their advancement of new knowledge. Tenure-track engineering faculty members include Cory Gloeckner (PhD, Biomedical Engineering) who brings deep expertise in neural engineering. His research on the Brain-Computer Interface pulls from principles in biology/biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, advanced mathematics, and general engineering principles such as signal processing.
Engineering Physics Work of the Future
John Carroll Engineering Physics alumni pursue a range of careers, including aerospace engineer, engineering physicist, materials engineer, operations engineer, product engineer, quality engineer and software engineer. Emerging Engineering Physics careers include:
Mechatronic Engineers
Mechatronics combines specialties such as computer engineering, telecommunications, system engineering and control engineering. This field integrates sensing technologies into advanced smart machines and consumer products.
Nanoengineers
Nanoengineering may soon revolutionize industries from medicine, to energy and environmental science, creating everything from next generation solar cells and nano-enabled hydrogen storage to nanocomposites therapeutics that simultaneously image, diagnose and treat disease.
AR/VR Engineers
AR and VR stand apart among emerging careers in Control Engineering that apply control theory principles to design systems. AR overlays digital content onto the real world while VR creates a simulated environment. Control engineering has applications across all sectors including defense, aerospace, medicine, and transportation.