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Entertainment Engineering and Design: A Decade of Growth

Here's how alumni of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ's unique program are marrying the creative pursuits of fine arts with the technical know-how of engineering.

For a university positioned in the shadows of the Las Vegas Strip, what better place to establish the nation's first degree in entertainment engineering and design? Now just six years after the program graduated its first class, alumni are securing jobs in entertainment fields where both technical expertise and creative minds are in high demand. We recently caught up with a quartet of EED alums to find out what they’re doing now and what advice they have for students who are following in their footsteps.

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