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The Francis College of Engineering has been recognized as exemplar and with a Bronze Award for the inaugural ASEE Diversity Recognition Program.
The ASEE Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) was created to publicly recognize those engineering and engineering technology colleges that make significant, measurable progress in increasing the diversity, inclusion, and degree attainment outcomes of their programs.
Jyotik Savaj, who is enrolled in the Master of Science in Energy Engineering/Solar Program, aims to help fulfill the need for solar power and has a paid co-op job at Exyte, an engineering and project management company specializing in high-tech facilities.
Cheryl and Paul Katen are funding a scholarship to give diverse students “a leg up.”
Kevin Twitchell graduated the first time as a criminal justice major – and then switched direction, going back to school at night to get a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology.
Julia Measmer’s experiments with spinach led to research with a professor.
Lisa Panagopoulos went remote and part time – and launched a second career on the silver screen.
Flore Stécie Norcéide won an Oprah Winfrey Scholarship to study computer engineering here.
