<p>['U.S</a>. News’ gives high marks to Virginia Tech’s undergraduate engineering, business programs | Virginia Tech News | Virginia Tech](<a href=“http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2010/08/081710-eng-usnewsrankings.html]'U.S”>'U.S. News' gives high marks to Virginia Tech's undergraduate engineering, business programs | Virginia Tech News | Virginia Tech)</p>
<p>In engineering specialty programs, Virginia Tech’s Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering program ranks fourth in the nation for industrial/manufacturing engineering; the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics program ranks fifth for engineering science and 17th for materials engineering; aerospace and ocean engineering ranks 11th; the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering civil program ranks 11th, while environmental segment ranks ninth; mechanical engineering ranks 13th; and electrical and computer engineering ranks 15th. The biological systems engineering department, shared with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, ranked eighth in the nation among biological/agricultural programs.</p>