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Brown University

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The program is designed to ensure that students take a significant portion of the usual curriculum in Engineering and Physics, obtain substantial laboratory experience, and take several upper-level elective courses, focusing on applied science. Students may take either the standard Physics or Engineering programs during their first and second years and then switch to this combined program. The Sc.B. degree program in Engineering and Physics is not accredited by ABET and is mostly intended to prepare students for graduate study in applied science and engineering. Since the requirements include both quantum mechanics with the physics concentrators and analog electronics with EE concentrators, as well as more mathematics than either Physics or Engineering, it is one of the more demanding programs at Brown.

The following standard program assumes that a student begins mathematics courses at Brown with MATH 0100 or MATH 0190. Students who begin in MATH 0200 can substitute an additional science, engineering or higher-level mathematics course for the MATH 0190 requirement. To accommodate the diverse preparation of individual students, variations of the following sequences and their prerequisites are possible with permission of the appropriate concentration advisor and the instructors involved. We recommend that each student’s degree program be submitted for prior approval (typically in semester four) and scrutinized for compliance (in semester seven) by one faculty member from the Department of Physics and one faculty member from the School of Engineering.

Select one of the following two course sequences: 2
ENGN 0040ENGN 0030 Engineering Statics and Dynamics and Introduction to Engineering
or ENGN 0032 Introduction to Engineering: Design
PHYS 0050PHYS 0060 Foundations of Mechanics and Foundations of Electromagnetism and Modern Physics
PHYS 0070PHYS 0160 Analytical Mechanics and Introduction to Relativity, Waves and Quantum Physics
MATH 0190 Single Variable Calculus, Part II (Physics/Engineering) 1
or MATH 0100 Single Variable Calculus, Part II
MATH 0200 Multivariable Calculus (Physics/Engineering) 1
or MATH 0180 Multivariable Calculus
or MATH 0350 Multivariable Calculus With Theory
Select three additional higher-level math, applied math, or mathematical physics (PHYS 0720) courses. 3
CSCI 0111 Computing Foundations: Data 1
or APMA 0160 Introduction to Scientific Computing
or CSCI 0150 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science
or CSCI 0170 Computer Science: An Integrated Introduction
or CSCI 0190 Accelerated Introduction to Computer Science
ENGN 0510 Electricity and Magnetism 1
or PHYS 0470 Electricity and Magnetism
ENGN 1690 Photonics Devices and Sensors 1
or PHYS 1510 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory
PHYS 0500 Advanced Classical Mechanics 1
or ENGN 1370 Advanced Engineering Mechanics
PHYS 1410 Quantum Mechanics A 1
PHYS 1420 Quantum Mechanics B 1
PHYS 1530 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics 1
or ENGN 0720 Thermodynamics
ENGN 1620 Analysis and Design of Electronic Circuits 1
CHEM 0330 Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure 1
or ENGN 0310 Mechanics of Solids and Structures
or ENGN 0810 Fluid Mechanics
or PHYS 1600 Computational Physics
ENGN 0410 Materials Science 1
or ENGN 1560 Applications in Microwave Communications
or PHYS 0560 Experiments in Modern Physics
PHYS 1560 Modern Physics Laboratory 1
or ENGN 1590 Semiconductor Devices
or an approved 2000-level engineering or physics course.
A thesis under the supervision of a physics or engineering faculty member: 1
PHYS 1990 Senior Conference Course
or ENGN 1970 Independent Studies in Engineering
or ENGN 1971 Independent Study in Engineering
or ENGN 1972 Independent Study in Engineering Design
or ENGN 1973 Independent Study in Engineering Design
* Students are also encouraged to take courses dealing with the philosophical, ethical, or political aspects of science and technology.
Total Credits 19

Professional Track

The requirements for all undergraduate professional tracks within concentrations are standardized and additional information can be found here:

https://bulletin.brown.edu/undergradproftrack/