UA's College of Engineering observes National Engineers Week
02/16/2010
John-Michael Williford, a biomedical engineering honors student from Youngstown, conducted medical research during summer 2009 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda. Williford’s research focused on cartilage/orthopedic tissue engineering.
To mark National Engineers Week this week, we salute our engineering professors and our engineering students by bringing to you these facts about UA's highly regarded College of Engineering:
- With an undergraduate enrollment of 2,142, UA’s College of Engineering is the fastest growing such college in the state and the fourth fastest growing in the nation.
- Innovative curriculum and research, academically exceptional students and top-notch faculty have become hallmarks of the UA College of Engineering.
- The college launched, in 2009, the nation’s first undergraduate aerospace systems engineering program designed to train engineers as project and program managers for the aerospace industry.
- The nation’s first baccalaureate corrosion and reliability engineering program will be offered by UA beginning in fall 2010.
- In May 2009, Siemens donated 300 seats of its PLM Software NX® and TeamCenter Engineering®, a dynamic modeling software for student design use. The in-kind donation to the College of Engineering from Europe’s largest engineering conglomerate, Siemens AG, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is valued at $218 million.
- With a 35,000-square-foot engineering center approved by the UA Board of Trustees and an ever-expanding and superlative faculty, the university’s College of Engineering continues to maintain its momentum as an academic front-runner.
In celebration of Engineers Week, the UA College of Engineering will participate in the Akron Area Engineers Week banquet at 5 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18. See details.
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Media contact: Denise Henry, 330-972-6477 or henryd@uakron.edu.