Find your own path

Graduate Studies

Engineer = Innovator

The benefits of a graduate degree in engineering sciences include developing the skills and the drive to innovate. As you work toward becoming an expert in your field, you'll be encouraged to:

• Take charge of your own educational goals
• Form a network of mentors
• Take creative risks
• Attend conferences
• Contribute to a graduate student environment of camaraderie, challenge, and intellectual stimulation

Learning to lead

While acquiring technical depth in your area, you'll hone your leadership skills as well. You'll practice writing outside your field, attend grant-writing workshops, learn how to give constructive criticism, and fine-tune your presentation skills.

Working within a single, unified department of engineering makes exposure to different areas and ideas inevitable. And the opportunities for creativity go way beyond a typical advanced degree in engineering. For example, you might:

• Create a new course with a professor or do an independent study
• Start or participate in a journal or club in your research area
• Earn a certificate from Thayer School's Ph.D. Innovation Program
• Gain entrepreneurial training through the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network
• Earn a business certificate (or an M.E.M. degree)
• Take up to 5 classes in other departments

Every experience you have that reaches beyond your chosen field of expertise prepares you to take the lead in whatever path you choose.

Degree programs

(Note—An accredited professional Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree is available through Undergraduate Studies.)

Master of Engineering Management (M.E.M.)—The M.E.M. program combines graduate level engineering classes at Thayer School with relevant management classes at Tuck School of Business.

Master of Science (M.S.)—The M.S. in engineering sciences emphasizes innovative engineering research, an advanced level of applied mathematics skills, and depth as well as some breadth across engineering disciplines. The M.S. can also be combined with an M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School (M.D./M.S.)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)—The Ph.D. in engineering sciences offers students the freedom to follow their research where ever it leads and prepares them to enter a professional or academic position as a leading expert in their field. Thayer School offers the nation's first doctoral-level engineering Innovation Program with Luce Fellowships available to female applicants; and the Ph.D. can also be combined with an M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School (M.D./Ph.D.) or with the IGERT program in Polar Environmental Change.

Research

Thayer School research is advancing innovation in three impact areas that cut across traditional engineering disciplines and address critical human needs:

• Engineering in Medicine
• Energy Technologies
• Complex Systems

You may also browse by discipline although most projects combine knowledge and expertise from more than one specific discipline.

Students may collaborate with experts across the hall and across campus:

• Dartmouth's Graduate Studies Programs
• Dartmouth Medical School
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Tuck School of Business