Winter Break 2019

It’s finally winter break! The students may be out, but the College of Engineering is still buzzing about all of our accomplishments in 2019. Learn daily factual tidbits about our impact with our Countdown to 2020 calendar. Read more about our 2019 Achievements.

  1. End of finals!

  2. Graduation

  3. The college of engineering graduates 1,200+ BS, MS, and PhD students/year

  4. Happy winter break to our 7,000+ students.

  5. 6000+ undergrad students study in 11 BS degree programs.

  6. in 2019: Nearly 22% of engineering students are female

  7. in 2019: ASEE recognized MSU Engineering for diversity achievements

  8. in 2019: We established a new undergraduate major in Computational Data Science

  9. Winter Solstice

  10. in 2019: Our 900+ Graduate Students pursue MS and PhD degrees in 11 disciplines

  11. First Day of Hanukkah

  12. in 2019: We established two new online master’s degree programs in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

  13. Christmas

  14. First day of Kwanzaa

  15. in 2019: We welcomed 15 new members to our 230-member tenure system faculty

  16. in 2019: MSU Engineers were awarded 2 ARPA-E grants, totaling $5.3 Million

  17. in 2019: MSU Engineering faculty earned 2 NSF CAREER Awards - for a two-year total of 5 CAREER Awards

  18. in 2019: We saw record research expenditures of $60M+

  19. in 2019: New leadership arrived at MSU with the inauguration of Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD

  20. New Year's Day