How cutting edge is the equipment in the engineering department?
Our major concern when choosing equipment is how well if will help students learn. We cannot afford the multi-million dollar lab equipment available at larger universities, but any equipment that we do have is fully available for hands-on use by undergraduates for class work and individual projects. Alumni often report that one of the greatest benefit of their Swarthmore Engineering education was that they learned how to figure out how to make something work.
