Physics and Electrical Engineering

Engineering

Christine A. Zakzewski, Ph.D., Director

Overview

Engineering is the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is judiciously applied to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. A number of majors are available.

Physics

Faculty

Christine A. Zakzewski, Ph.D., Chair
W. Andrew Berger, Ph.D.
Joseph W. Connolly, Ph.D.
Declan Mulhall, Ph.D.
Jeremy Sepinsky, Ph.D.
Robert A. Spalletta, Ph.D.
Argyrios C. Varonides, Ph.D.

Overview

The Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering offers majors in Physics and Biophysics, as well as the Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Electronics-Business majors described earlier. The objectives of the department are to provide skills, understanding, and the methodology required to initiate active participation in the development of new knowledge about the material universe. The approach of the physicist, based as it is on the analysis of mathematical models dealing with matter and energy and their interactions, supplies a unique and important insight to the solution of problems in many disciplines.

A study by the Office of Institutional Research at Franklin and Marshall College shows that over 66 years, The University of Scranton ranked 33rd out of 977 four-year, private, primarily undergraduate institutions as the baccalaureate origin of physics doctorates. In addition, the Biophysics concentration has regularly produced students admitted to medical school.