Designing and Building Your Future
Grow as a professional and individual through Taylor’s ABET-accredited Physics & Engineering Department. Wherever God is calling you after graduation—the engineering industry, healthcare, education, or the mission field—our outstanding faculty will mentor you and help you prepare for your career.
You will experience rigorous curriculum, project-based learning, and work with cutting-edge technology to prepare for a future in engineering.
God, the ultimate Designer, created us in His image with great love and care and we get the great privilege to image God to the world through our character, gifts, and roles.
As engineers, we reflect the Great Designer as we build systems, solve problems, and conduct research that honors God and serves our community. As physicists, we marvel at the incredible detail our Creator buried into creation, and who gave us the mathematical tools to understand it.
Christ-centered learning fuels our classroom discussions, our approach to teamwork, and our goals that undergird the major projects you’ll work on. We seek to integrate biblical and industry knowledge to engage in conversations regarding the ethics of technology, approach teamwork gracefully, and pursue projects that glorify God and serve humanity.
A Taylor Engineering degree holds its value on the job market, because our program meets professional standards of education that prepares graduates to enter key STEM fields.
Check out the project-based, career-focused work that you’ll be doing.
You’ll have access to a wide array of Euler Science Complex’s state-of-the-art equipment and analysis and design software. In addition to using the tools for in-class projects, students can use the machine shop, wood shop, and electronics lab to complete research and projects on virtual reality, 3D printing for habitable structures on Mars, solar cars, satellites, nano-satellites, and muscle biopsy.
Check out some of the Physics and Engineering equipment and software packages that our majors learn to use:
Put your analytical and experimental skills to work through research projects and internships.
Required Practicum
All Physics & Engineering students are required to complete at least one practicum. You'll have access to local internships, like analyzing satellite trajectories at NearSpace Launch here in Upland, or complete internships abroad at places like CERN, the European organization for nuclear research in Switzerland.
Other high-profile companies include:
Graduate-Level Research
Our students have conducted graduate-level research for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Air Force.
They’ve participated in a well-drilling ministry in Central America, taken part in prestigious summer internships at major labs such as Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Argonne National Lab, Fermi Lab, and the Mayo Clinic.
But it starts here on campus, where students have worked on virtual reality, robots designed to build on Mars, and more.
Prepared for the Classroom
In addition to engaging lectures, hands-on labs, and research projects, future physics and mathematics educators engage in student teaching and take education classes that prepare them for classroom management, lab safety, and making these subjects accessible to 5th-12th grade students.
Department Chair and Assistant Professor of Engineering
Physics & Engineering Lab/Resource Manager
Computer Science & Engineering, Systems, and Physics & Engineering Program Assistant
Professor of Physics
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Associate Professor of Physics & Engineering
Taylor University to Host Eclipse Viewing Event
To take part in this once-in-a-lifetime event, Taylor alumni, family, and friends as well as groups of 6th-12th grade students and homeschool families will be hosted on campus.
Taylor Student Magnifies Joy
Brayden Gogis '26, a Mechanical Engineering and Biochemistry double-major in his second year at Taylor, has set out to help others better evaluate areas of joy in their lives.
Summer Research Projects Grow Depth of Knowledge
Most classes may have been out for the summer, but faculty-mentored research projects in music, biology, biochemistry, engineering, and more were in full swing across campus.
Engineering Program Receives $2 Million Grant from Don Wood Foundation
The Don Wood Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and related education focused on strengthening the manufacturing sector in the Midwest. The grant is the largest ever awarded by the foundation to an institution of higher learning.
Solving Problems, Shaping Futures: Students’ Ingenuity for the Next Generation
Computer Science major Isaac Wickham ’24 and Engineering major David Mitchell ’24 developed Pocket Dorm, a fun interactive tool for incoming students to plan their residence hall room set-up.
Physics & Engineering Alumnus Pursues PhD in the UK
Caleb Miller ’21 is putting his extensive list of experiences to work as he pursues a PhD in experimental atmospheric physics.
Students Design Water Filtration System for Bangladesh Hospital
Engineering students spent last summer researching, designing, and documenting the water filtration system.
Physics Alumnus Grows Passion for Research and Innovation
Physics/Systems graduate Adam Bennett ’01 gained experience as a student on NASA research and Taylor’s emerging satellite program.
Taylor University to Host Eclipse Viewing Event
To take part in this once-in-a-lifetime event, Taylor alumni, family, and friends as well as groups of 6th-12th grade students and homeschool families will be hosted on campus.
Taylor Student Magnifies Joy
Brayden Gogis '26, a Mechanical Engineering and Biochemistry double-major in his second year at Taylor, has set out to help others better evaluate areas of joy in their lives.
Summer Research Projects Grow Depth of Knowledge
Most classes may have been out for the summer, but faculty-mentored research projects in music, biology, biochemistry, engineering, and more were in full swing across campus.
Engineering Program Receives $2 Million Grant from Don Wood Foundation
The Don Wood Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of manufacturing, entrepreneurship, and related education focused on strengthening the manufacturing sector in the Midwest. The grant is the largest ever awarded by the foundation to an institution of higher learning.
Solving Problems, Shaping Futures: Students’ Ingenuity for the Next Generation
Computer Science major Isaac Wickham ’24 and Engineering major David Mitchell ’24 developed Pocket Dorm, a fun interactive tool for incoming students to plan their residence hall room set-up.
Physics & Engineering Alumnus Pursues PhD in the UK
Caleb Miller ’21 is putting his extensive list of experiences to work as he pursues a PhD in experimental atmospheric physics.
Students Design Water Filtration System for Bangladesh Hospital
Engineering students spent last summer researching, designing, and documenting the water filtration system.
Physics Alumnus Grows Passion for Research and Innovation
Physics/Systems graduate Adam Bennett ’01 gained experience as a student on NASA research and Taylor’s emerging satellite program.