Several students in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s dual degree engineering program will soon continue their education at some of the nation’s top engineering schools.
Ashley Davis will transfer from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ to Washington University in St. Louis this fall. Davis will receive one of two Brown Fellowship awards at WU. The Brown Fellowship is a major award which covers all tuition costs. It also provides a stipend for Davis’ two remaining undergraduate years, and can be extended to cover graduate studies at WU. Davis will be the first student from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s engineering program to attend Washington University.
Estee Amana has become the first engineering student from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s program to earn admission to Georgia Tech. She will transfer in the fall. Georgia Tech required Amana to maintain a 3.5 GPA for admission, a standard that is “a very high hurdle,” says Rich D’Amato, director of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s dual degree engineering program.
In addition to these students, four juniors will continue their engineering degrees at N.C. State University and one other will study at Virginia Tech.
In ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s dual-degree engineering program, students spend their first three years at ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ and their final two years at an engineering school. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ partners with the engineering schools at North Carolina State University, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Columbia University, Washington University in St. Louis and North Carolina A&T State University to offer the program. Students in the program earn bachelor’s degrees from ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ and one of the partner schools.