Minors

Minors are available in all Penn Engineering departments (except for Bioengineering) as well as many subject areas in the College. Please note that there are special programs such as Digital Media Design, and Management & Technology for which a minor is neither appropriate nor permitted. A student who wishes to minor in a special subject area should complete an "Application for a Minor" form (available on-line or in 111 Towne Building) and have the selection of courses approved by the undergraduate chairperson of the minoring department. The completed form should be returned to 111 Towne. Once the courses have been taken, the Office of the Academic Programs should be notified in order to have the minor notation added to the student's transcript. Should the selection of courses change, an approved, updated form must be submitted so the transcript reflects the approved selection of courses for the minor area.

Engineering minors consist of at least 6 c.u., all of which must be taken for a grade. No more than two courses in the engineering minor may be double counted with courses specified on the student's Course Planning Guide. No course may be triple counted, i.e., counted for more than two degrees/majors/minors. Any course accepted in the engineering category for a major may be accepted as a course to fulfill a minor in that field. For a minor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, students may also choose one of the following courses, MEAM 100 or 101.

Non-departmental Minors

In addition to the minors associated with specific departmnents, several minors are offered which intersect several departmental boundaries.  These include the Minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship and the Minor in Nanotechnology.  For detailes concerning these minors, please refer to the respective web pages.

 

Minor in Cognitive Science

Penn Engineering and SAS together offer a special minor in Cognitive Science. This minor is aimed at a wide range of students in either SAS or Penn Engineering, and permits a number of options. Students must choose at least six courses from a larger set organized into three levels: Introductory, Foundational, and Advanced. The Introductory course Introduction to Cognitive Science and the Advanced courses are cross-disciplinary. The Foundational courses and the remaining Introductory courses are further organizd into five tracks corresponding to the parent disciplines of computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Students must take a prescribed number of Introductory and Foundational courses, but they are free to choose one of the five tracks and also to choose their advanced courses.