I do not recall this being brought up during my years at Marquette University’s (MU) engineering school, but the night school crowd was probably too buttoned down to do much about it anyway. Not only was St. Patrick an engineer, the students at North Carolina State University have decided he was the very best kind of engineer: a gear guy! Here is a link to the whole story:
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/magazine/spring2012/saint.php
Not to be left out of the party, students at the University of Missouri have a songbook celebrating the man who drove the snakes from the Emerald Isle and taught the Irish to build arched bridges and churches. A few selections: