Dartmouth College
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
Students who choose the five-year Dartmouth program spend their
junior year at Dartmouth College taking engineering courses. They
return to Mount Holyoke for their senior year and earn their A.B.
from Mount Holyoke. Following graduation, students spend an additional
year at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering to be eligible
to earn a bachelor of engineering (B.E.).
In addition to submitting the MHC Application for a Dual Degree
in Engineering, students complete an application to Thayer, and
admission is by Thayer in consultation with the MHC Engineering
Committee. Students seeking financial aid apply to MHC for
an Engineering Scholarship for the third year and to Thayer for
financial aid for the fifth year.
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Alumnae Profile: Hope Chambers ’87
Hope Chambers completed Mount Holyoke’s dual-degree program
with the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 1988.
Currently, she’s manager for microprocessor development in
the VLSI hardware engineering group at Apple, which designs such
Apple products as the iBook and iMac. Hope has also worked for Sun
Microsystems in their microprocessor design group, managing a team
of engineers who were responsible for the debug and test of the
UltraSPARCIII microprocessor. She’s also been a product engineer
and manager at Texas Instruments.
"Mount Holyoke gave me the confidence to work in a field that
was dominated by men and not be intimidated," Hope says. "Many
engineering professors base their teaching on the assumption that
the students in their classes have been tinkering with radios, taking
apart engines, playing with technology in some capacity for years.
For a lot of men this is the case, but this assumption is not necessarily
valid for young women. The classes at Mount Holyoke start with the
basics and supply the students with the information, background,
and experience they need for success. My intelligence and capabilities
were nurtured at Mount Holyoke."
Hope, who lives in California with her husband and three small
children, believes that her liberal arts background taught her how
to analyze and solve problems and also made her a good communicator—a
skill that she uses regularly at Apple, where she works with technical
teams to clearly define the features needed in future products.
She says that a liberal arts education was right for her. "When
I was first out of high school," she says, "I was interested
in a lot of subjects and in the kind of people who had other interests
than engineering. At Mount Holyoke, I liked meeting people who were
well-rounded." The Mount Holyoke/Dartmouth dual degree, says
Hope, offered her "the right balance of humanities with sciences
and the credentials to secure a job that I found interesting."
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