Our School

Our purpose.

Elon’s School of Engineering and Computing brings technical rigor together with the breadth of a liberal arts education. This approach prepares graduates to communicate complex ideas clearly, understand both the possibilities and limits of rapidly changing technologies and apply sound judgment to their work.

Our Approach

Technical depth, strengthened by broader learning

The school is embedded in Elon’s larger academic community, where collaboration across the arts, sciences and professional programs is routine. Small classes foster close relationships with faculty who teach, mentor and conduct research. Undergraduate students are not simply included in research, they have opportunities to lead projects and present their findings.

Together, these strengths prepare technically skilled, broadly educated problem-solvers who can communicate and adapt as their fields evolve.

Why Engineering + Computing?

Engineering and computing increasingly converge in the questions shaping our world. Bringing them together creates more ways to explore, collaborate and turn ideas into solutions.

Engineering

Design the physical world.

Study systems, materials and forces as you design, build, test and improve solutions responsive to human needs.

Computing

Shape the digital world.

Use computation, data and software to understand and create technologies that influence how people live and work.

At The Intersection

Explore questions that draw on both disciplines, from robotics and artificial intelligence to smart infrastructure, biomedical technologies and sustainable systems.

Explore Degrees & Programs

Your Part In It

Come ready to explore, work and discover what you can contribute

You already ask questions about how things work and why.

Faculty and peers will take your questions as seriously as you do and ask you to consider theirs with the same care. You will find support in a peer community that grows stronger when you show up for it. You will work with a mentor through the smooth stretches, so they know you well enough to help you through the rough ones.

Our role is to help you develop the technical knowledge and skills of an engineer or computer scientist. How you learn them will shape the engineer or computer scientist you become.

Student Experience

Engineering with someone
in mind.

Cassidy Parrish ’26

For Cassidy Parrish, engineering became personal when she began exploring a problem that affected someone close to her: her father’s hand pain and limited mobility.

Working alongside a faculty mentor, Cassidy redesigned a soft robotic glove intended to support hand and finger rehabilitation. The project gave her the opportunity to take an idea through research, design and prototyping, and ultimately present her work at Elon’s Spring Undergraduate Research Forum.

Her experience reflects what engineering and computing at Elon are designed to make possible: start with a problem that matters, work closely with people who can help you push your thinking, and develop the skills to turn an idea into something that can serve others.

I was excited to share my research with others. It was a really cool experience, and I like that Elon offers the opportunity to do research in this way. At some universities, you are just tacking your name onto something a professor is doing. At Elon, it's really your research.