Undergraduate Foundation Program + Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Program Description

The Academic English program helps students learn the English language and academic skills needed to study successfully at U.S. colleges and universities. The main program offers 6 levels of language instruction, from beginning to high advanced. Instruction focuses on building the speaking, listening, and writing skills that are essential to academic success.

WSU's Undergraduate Bridge program combines English language support with credit-bearing classes and personalized advising to help students smoothly transition to full university study. In most majors, Bridge students will graduate in the same amount of time as Direct Entry students.

Undergraduate Bridge programs are available in the following areas:

• Agricultural Sciences
• Architecture
• Business
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Fine Arts
• General Studies
• Journalism and Communication
• Mathematics
• Science

Mechanical engineering is a broad area of engineering that centers on creating and improving the machines and systems that make modern life possible. For instance:

• The use and economical conversion of energy from natural sources into other useful energy to provide power, light, heat, cooling, and transportation
• Design and production of machines to lighten the burden of human work
• Creative planning, development, and operation of systems for using energy, machines, and resources
• The processing of materials into products useful to people.