IDEAS is a four-year honors program, resulting in a Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree, Integrated Degree in Engineering, Arts, & Sciences (IDEAS), jointly administered by the College of Arts & Sciences and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science.

Interdisciplinary education in the arts and sciences and engineering is of significant value to students who will pursue a wide variety of careers Indeed, the complex challenges and problems confronting us in the 21st century dramatically underscore the importance of liberally educated and technologically sophisticated individuals whose habits of thought are thoroughly, comfortably interdisciplinary. Moreover, Lehigh is one of a small number of universities possessing the resources necessary to provide such an education. The students in this program will benefit from the integrated, strategic leveraging of strengths across college boundaries within the University.

This new program, now entering its second year, cultivates a new breed of cross-disciplinary innovators, in order to provide an education that produces students well versed in dual focus areas; one in engineering and one in the arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics or natural sciences. Such an educational environment also cultivates a multitude of thinking styles…it’s Renaissance thinking for the technological era.