For modified majors, engineering is just the beginning.Create. Improve. Enhance. That’s what engineers do.
And that’s what some students do with their studies, combining the engineering sciences major with one of Dartmouth’s other liberal arts subjects to form a modified major.
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Thayer School’s Formula Hybrid International Competition reached its five-year milestone this spring at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The competition attracted 34 teams from universities and colleges from around the world, a substantial leap from the five entries in the inaugural 2007 Formula Hybrid competition. Within days of the May 1–4 competition, Formula Hybrid reached another kind of milestone as well: gaining widespread recognition by headlining “Emerging Tech Day” at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 100th anniversary celebrations.
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For more than a decade, Thayer students have pursued a wide range of humanitarian engineering projects overseas. In 2003, students established a Dartmouth chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Two years later, they founded their own organization, Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects, which morphed into Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering in 2010. Despite the evolving nomenclature, the students’ goal remains the same: engineering a better life for those in need.
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