Engineering and Science Technology

Department Mission

The mission of the Engineering & Science Technology Department is to provide high quality career focused education that meets the needs of the students as they prepare for careers in this region’s industrial, technical, and business community. Programs are structured to provide degree, certificate, and career enhancement opportunities for the recent high school graduate and the non traditional student returning for both degree and skill specific objectives.

Summit College's Department of Engineering and Science Technology is located Schrank Hall - North and South. The department's faculty pride themselves in applying leading edge technology to classroom instruction and while using the latest technology to compliment our hands-on instructional approach.

Areas of technical instruction include Geographic and Land Information Systems, Mechanical, Electronic, Surveying & Mapping, Construction, Drafting, Manufacturing and Automated Manufacturing. The department also provides instruction in the General Technologies of Chemistry and Physics. Each area instructs it's students on scientific theories that are used in industry, and reinforce the theoretical instruction with hands-on training using equipment and technology used in industry.


Tau Alpha Pi - Gamma Eta Chapter
Tau Alpha Pi is the national honor society for engineering technology students, just as Phi Theta Kappa and Phi Beta Kappa are for associate degree and liberal arts students, and Tau Beta Pi is for engineering students. Tau Alpha Pi membership is open to top-performing associate-degree and baccalaureate students in engineering technology programs.

Program Guides
(couse numbers for classes may be found when clicking onto the curriculum guides for individual programs)