Doane welcomes new engineering program
7 Sep 2016
Higher Education
This year, Doane started Nebraska’s second engineering program.
“I am really excited about it, I have been thinking about this for five years,” said Chris Wentworth, chair of the department of physics and engineering. “Five years ago, I decided that for engineering to survive at Doane, we needed to offer our own bachelors of engineering.”
For forty years, Doane offered a three-two engineering program.
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