Student Laptop Specifications

It is highly recommended that all freshmen engineering students purchase laptop computers.

This laptop will meet the minimum requirements
This laptop will be outdated quickly and may only be good for 1-2 years.
Products like AutoCAD, MATLAB and other engineering software will load and run but will take more time to complete their operations.

Processor – Intel Core i3-i5 (8th-gen or newer) or AMD Ryzen (2000-series or newer)
Operating System – Windows 10 64 bit
Memory – 8 GB
Hard Drive – 256 GB SSD (SATA based with 350-500 MB/s read and write speeds)
Video Card – Integrated or dedicated graphics card with 2-4 GB video memory
Display – 13" display with 1600x900 resolution or higher (touchscreen optional)
Warranty – 1 or more years, 7+ days turn around

This laptop will meet the minimum requirements.
This laptop will likely be outdated and may only be good for 2-3 years.
Products like AutoCAD, MATLAB and other engineering software will load and run normally.

Processor – Intel Core i5-i7 (8th-gen or newer) or AMD Ryzen (3000-series or newer)
Operating System – Windows 10 64-bit
Memory – 12 GB
Hard Drive – 500 GB SSD (SATA based with 350-500 MB/s read and write speeds)
Video Card – Dedicated graphics card with 4-6 GB video memory
Display – 15" display with 1920x1080 resolution or higher (touchscreen optional)
Warranty – 1 or more years, 7+ days turn around

This laptop will exceed the minimum requirements but will not be "top of the line"
This laptop will likely be outdated after 3-4 years but will continue to function very well into years 4 and 5.
Products like AutoCAD, MATLAB and other engineering software will load quickly and process data quickly.

Processor – Intel Core i7-i9 (8th-gen or newer) or AMD Ryzen (4000-series or newer)
Operating System – Windows 10 64-bit
Memory – 16-32 GB
Hard Drive – 500 GB - 1 TB NVMe M.2 SSD recommended or SSD (SATA based with 400-550 MB/s read and write speeds)
Video Card – Dedicated graphics card with 6-8 GB video memory
Display – 15"-17" with High Definition 1920x1080 resolution or Ultra High Definition with 3840x2160 resolution (touchscreen optional)
Warranty – 1 or more years, 7+ days turn around