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HEADLINE: A look at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering 02/23/2000
Sunday Gazette-Mail P6K (Copyright 2000)
Virginia Tech is the home of the Virginias' leading College of
Engineering.

In the most recent issue of U.S. News & World Report "Best Colleges"
survey of engineering schools (August 1999), the College of
Engineering's undergraduate program placed 18th in the country among
schools offering doctoral degrees or first among the Virginia
schools.
[...]
The College now maintains its own Car Factory. Each year, the students
receive hands-on experience as they learn how to design and
manufacture the latest version of the solar car, the all-terrain
vehicle, the formula race car or the electric vehicle. The engineering
students work with students from other disciplines such as business
and communications studies majors who will assist them in the
solicitation of funds and in the marketing aspects of competition. 

In addition, the College also operates the Joseph F. Ware Jr. Advanced
Engineering Laboratory, a new, 10,000-square-foot student project
design facility. The state-of-the-art computing and fabrication center
with some numerically controlled machine tools and a classroom is
available to students in all disciplines and at all academic levels.
The lab primarily serves student involvement projects.

A college-wide initiative is the introduction of green engineering
concepts into the various engineering disciplines. The aim of green
engineering is to employ environmentally friendly technologies that
address cradle-to-death use of processes. These technologies will help
to eliminate the production of pollutants and increase the recycling
and reuse of materials. Whether the student is majoring in mechanical,
electrical or aerospace engineering, he or she would be investigating
ways to design products that have safer byproducts, are recyclable and
more environmentally friendly, yet less expensive. The College began
this initiative some nine years ago, and is considered to be in the
forefront of engineering education in this arena.

Five engineering departments now participate in a program designed to
increase students' marketability after graduation by helping them
develop the professional communications skills they will need in the
workplace. Discipline-Specific Advanced Writing and Communicating
originated in the materials science and engineering department in
1992, and now also is part of the curricula of engineering science and
mechanics, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical, and mining
and minerals engineering.
[...]
Of the 1997-98 College of Engineering graduates who were employed full
time (the most recent year for which statistics are known), 97.1
percent were employed in a field related to their major. The average
annual salary at the bachelor's level was $40,000.
For further information, call 540-231-6641 or investigate the
College's World Wide Web site at http://www.eng.vt.edu/

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