The department '''Department of Engineering Education ''' is a non-degree-granting department within the [[College of Engineering]]. Freshmen engineering students are placed into this deparment as General Engineering majors and must wait a year before they are allowed to matriculate into a major. First-semester students must take [[ENGE 1024]], a course which teaches "general engineering skills". Second-semester students may take either [[ENGE 1104]] or [[ENGE 1114]] depending on their desired major. [[Tom Walker]], an associate professor within the department, often "exercises an oversight role" in these courses, but does not always teach them.

Finally, some students believe that the department detracts from the [[College of [[Engineering]], citing what they feel to be a lack of sufficiently rigorous or relevant content in the required courses, and have advocated for the department's elimination.