Holy Cross offers a cooperative, five-year program for students who are interested in combining the liberal arts and sciences with engineering. Students enrolled in this program spend their first three years as full-time students at Holy Cross and the following two years as full-time students at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in New York City. At the conclusion of this program, students receive both a Bachelor of Arts degree from Holy Cross and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Columbia University.
Students interested in the 3-2 Engineering Program should take the following courses in the first semester, and take Montserrat courses that fulfill a common area requirement other than Math or Natural Science.
- PHYS 115 Introductory Physics 1: Mechanics, Fluids and Waves
- MATH 135 (or 133) Calculus 1 or MATH 136 Calculus 2 as appropriate. Please see the listing under Mathematics for further guidance.
If you have any questions, please contact the 3-2 Engineering advisor at 508-793-2503 or tnarita@holycross.edu to set up an appointment.
Courses
PHYS 115
Introductory Physics 1
Common Area: Natural Science
First semester course of a two-semester, calculus-based sequence, suitable for majors of physics, chemistry, or biology, as well as for those participating in the Health Professions Advisory Program (premedical, predental, etc.), the 3-2 Engineering Program, or in ROTC. Covers the theory of Newtonian mechanics and methods for solving quantitative and qualitative problems. Specific topics include motion in one and two dimensions; vectors, Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, linear momentum and collisions, rotational motion, static equilibrium, oscillatory motion, gravitation, fluid mechanics, and mechanical waves. There is an emphasis on applications of physics to natural phenomena and aspects of everyday life. The course meets four days per week and each class is a mixture of lecture and laboratory exercises; there is no separate lab meeting.
MATH 135
Calculus 1
Common Area: Mathematical Science
This is the standard version of Calculus at the College. Considers the calculus of real-valued functions of one variable for students who are planning further course work in Mathematical Scienceematics, a major in the social or physical sciences, or the premedical program. Emphasis is placed on a conceptual understanding of calculus, presenting material from symbolic, numerical, and graphical points of view. The concepts of limit, continuity, and derivative are developed and applied to algebraic, logarithmic, exponential and trigonometric functions.
Applications of the derivative are explored. This course meets three hours per week.
MATH 133
Calculus 1 with Fundamentals
Common Area: Mathematical Science
This version of MATH 135 is designed for students who require more class time to make the transition to college-level mathematics. See the description of Introductory Courses before choosing this course. See the description of Mathematics 135 for the course content. This course meets five hours per week.
MATH 136
Calculus 2
Common Area: Mathematical Science
Considers the calculus of real-valued functions of one variable for students who are planning further course work in Mathematics, a major in the social or physical sciences, or the premedical program. Emphasis is placed on a conceptual understanding of the calculus, presenting material from symbolic, numerical, and graphical points of view. Course content include the theory, evaluation, and applications of integration, sequences and series including Taylor polynomials and series, and an introduction to ordinary differential equations. This course is the prerequisite for Mathematical Scienceematics 241. This course meets four hours per week.