School of Engineering

Tackling Grand Challenges

Now and Ever: The Campaign for Ole Miss underscores a pivotal transition point for the School of Engineering’s future. The campaign will shape the State of Mississippi’s oldest and most respected School of Engineering for today’s generation of students and tomorrow’s challenges. This important campaign will ensure that the School has the resources to recruit faculty and students of incredible talent with the promise of indelible impact, and the Campaign will provide the spaces and programs they need to succeed and to propel the University’s R1 status forward, Now and Ever.

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Greg Carter

Director of Development, School of Engineering

662-915-1849

gjcarter@olemiss.edu

Campaign Priorities

Engineers of the Future

Financial assistance encourages a larger, more diverse pipeline of engineering and computer science talent, which plays a vital role in future economic growth for Mississippi and the nation. This support is particularly transformative for first-generation and underrepresented students; access to a good engineering job can lift their entire family out of generational poverty, enhancing the quality of life for themselves and their community.

Reducing cost barriers ensures that talented students with great promise can continue to fill the pipeline for industry and the public sector. Scholarships, assistantships and fellowships at undergraduate and graduate levels also enable the school to vie for future generations of engineers and computer scientists who can change the world.

The Engineering Bridge Program prepares students who are underrepresented in engineering and computer science disciplines for the rigor of our curricula. The summer program assists students with adjusting to college-level math and science coursework with additional focus on tools for academic success.

The University of Mississippi Academic Redshirt (UMARS) Program is a new program that would support engineering and computer science students who are first-generation students or are from under-resourced backgrounds to navigate the transition to college-level engineering courses. UMARS students would receive specialized curriculum designed to build learning skills and strengthen academic preparation for core math and science prerequisites.

Through summer camps and other programs, we strive to engage students long before college to build an interest in STEM learning, especially engineering. We are partnering with the university’s Center for Math and Science Education, Division of Outreach, and Office of Diversity and Community Engagement.

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Learning Beyond the Classroom

The Excellence in Engineering fund allows the school to direct resources to areas of greatest need, including student projects, team competitions, equipment for hands-on education and research, K-12 STEM outreach, and other activities to ensure student and faculty success.

The Dean Distinguished Speakers Series attracts distinguished leaders in engineering from around the world to talk about their work and their vision for the field. The series benefits students, faculty, and alumni of Ole Miss Engineering.

The selective Leadership Development Program is a new program that would equip students with the skills to move a team, organization, or company toward the completion of its mission and goals. Students would learn about leadership and followership through meetings with government, industry and academic leaders, culminating in a capstone trip.

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A Foundation of Expertise and Innovation

Faculty are the lifeblood of Ole Miss Engineering. They ensure our students have the technical knowledge and power skills to succeed. They pursue research to solve business problems and societal challenges, often in collaboration with companies and government agencies. They take leading roles in interdisciplinary partnerships across campus, in areas as wide-ranging as manufacturing, nanomaterials, acoustics and natural resources.

Named professorships and endowed chairs will ensure that Ole Miss Engineering can offer compensation and research funds to compete with SEC and other university peers that have the resources to attract leading scholars to their campuses.

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Spaces for Learning, Collaboration and Creativity

Ole Miss Engineering needs state-of-the-art facilities to attract both faculty and students. We envision a new building to support strategic research areas, propel multi-disciplinary work, seed innovative study across the curriculum, and solve grand challenges.

The Engineering Student Projects Garage is a makerspace that will be an open access environment for engineering students to dream, tinker, build, fail, and rebuild. For example, the Rocket Team, Concrete Canoe team, and Baja car team would use the garage to plan, manufacture and finish their projects for testing and competition. This helps students gain the manual, mechanical, and technical proficiencies applicable in future roles.

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School of Engineering Stories

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Wen Wu Receives EPSCoR Grant To Study Applications Of Novel Drag-Reducing Approach

Technology Meets Medicine

The University of Mississippi has unveiled its sparkling new biomedical engineering expansion that will better prepare students for careers in a pioneering field that combines technology with medicine. The roughly 6,500-square-foot space, on the third floor of Brevard Hall, also will help nurture innovative research and advance the technological and economic development of Mississippi, the … Continued

Engineering the Future

With a $100,000 gift to the University of Mississippi School of Engineering, Stephen and Patty Foose want to provide scholarships to civil engineering students whose background, achievements and experience demonstrate a commitment to contributing to the advancement of women in civil engineering. The couple established the Stephen and Patty Foose Civil Engineering Scholarship Endowment for sophomores and higher who … Continued