Another Record Enrollment
Many of you have probably heard that Forbes magazine has ranked Mississippi State University among the top 20 of its top 100 best college buys in America. Many have probably heard that Mississippi State remains the largest university in the state with more total students and more students on the main campus than the other universities in the state…by a significant margin.
What you probably have not heard is the enrollment in the CEE Department has reached another record for the 107 years of our existence; 425 students. Of these, 359 are undergraduates representing 15 percent increase over 2008’s undergraduate enrollment. The other 66 students are graduates students. Ph.D. students make up 29 percent of this number.
Women make up almost 13 percent of the undergraduate program compared to 23 percent of our graduate students. Distance students make up 48 percent of our graduate enrollment, but most of them are working towards a MSCE.
Outreach
MSTI
Drs. Truax, Howard, White, and Zhang, working with the staff of the Outreach Office in the Bagley College of Engineering, hosted the 2009 Mississippi Summer Transportation Institute (MSTI). A two-week residential summer institute focused on introduction rising high school sophomores and juniors to all aspects of the transportation field, this is part of the Federal Highway Administrations national summer program initiative.
In the third year at Mississippi State, this year’s program had thirty-one (31) high school participants. In addition to funding from FHWA and the Mississippi Department of Transportation, private and public sponsors of MSTI included Ergon Corporation, Mississippi Transportation Institute, Michael Baker Jr., Inc., Figg Engineering, Volkert & Associates, Florence & Hutcheson, and Mississippi’s Operation Lifesaver. More...
