Engineering

Through the Engineering PhD degree from Liberty University you’ll become a leader in the field of engineering and prepare for a successful career conducting research, teaching at a high level, or rising up the ranks of management in a technical corporation.

Through this Engineering PhD degree from Liberty University students learn how to target analysis, organization, and prioritization. In our Ph.D. program, you’ll learn how to focus on the synthesis of disparate, complex information and then how to communicate the complex results in writing and in oral presentations.

Key facts

• Position yourself as an expert who is sought after in the job market as you master this high-level process of thinking through the Ph.D. program.The Ph.D. in Engineering combines theory, modeling and simulation, and experimental quantification to calibrate and validate the theory and simulation results.

• As a residential student, you’ll be able to work with some of thelatest technology and state-of-the-art equipment.Our Ph.D. students work with industrial, national laboratory, and military researchers and have the possibility of working in the summers at these different labs across the country.

• Funding on a variety of projects is possible as a “Research Fellow” where your tuition is paid, and you garner a yearly stipend.

Career Opportunities

• Applications engineer

• Director of engineering

• Engineering manager

• Project engineer

• Project manager

Courses include:

• Continuum Mechanics

• Inelasticity

• Damage and Fracture

• Fatigue