The department offers a five-year combined undergraduate-graduate program leading to the Bachelor of Science (BS) and Master of Science (MS) degrees. The objective of this Pathway is to produce, in five years of full-time study, an engineer who is fully qualified to enter into professional practice in industry. Students begin taking core graduate courses in their fourth year. Successful completion of the fourth year of the five-year curriculum will give the student enough credit and breadth of subject matter to satisfy university requirements for the BS degree, should individual circumstances arise that preclude a student from taking the fifth year. This Pathway also includes a Summer internship in industry between the fourth and fifth years.