Online engineering degrees help students and alumni find career success
Penn State World Campus highlighting online engineering degrees as part of the celebration of its 25th anniversary
March 22, 2023
By Mike Dawson
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on Penn State News. It features the master’s in mechanical engineering and other online degrees in engineering offered by Penn State World Campus.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In Renee Dorer’s job with a jet engine manufacturing company, her work involved modeling fire in combustors, a problem that involves both thermodynamics and turbulent air flow. She decided to learn more about air flows in her online master’s degree program in engineering, and she took a course in fluid dynamics to increase her knowledge on this topic that was such a fixture in her work.