Taking all areas into account, Eastman’s support for the college will total $2 million over a five-year period.
The conference, Engineering and the Future of Humankind, was sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, known better as UNESCO; the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences; and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
The section on the smartest players in college football features a look at UT quarterback Joshua Dobbs, a sophomore from Alpharetta, Georgia, majoring in aerospace engineering.
The programs are arranged according to grade level—beginning with seventh grade and running through high school—with the middle school courses serving as an introduction to engineering while the high school students deal with more in-depth engineering topics.
The college is very pleased to be able to respond to the increased demand for College of Engineering faculty-led study abroad programs with increased fellowship support this year.
One important reason that I decided to study at the University of Savoy is due to the Institut Savoisien d’Études Françaises pour Étrangers (ISEFE). The University of Savoy is one of the only French Universities to include a program as such that attracts trained faculty specifically to teach and share to foreign students and professionals…
After the second week I began to find my way around Munich with the little German I knew. I found some good restaurants as well as the shops that weren’t outrageously expensive from tourism.
Our study abroad experience took place in the city of Innsbruck, Austria, which is nestled in a valley in the Austrian Alps. Immediately after arriving, we realized we were entering a completely different environment.
Arriving in a foreign country can be an overwhelming experience in many ways: from the weight of my thirty-nine pound travel backpack packed for three and a half weeks on my back, from the exhaustion from sleeping only a couple of hours on the plane the night before, and from being in a new place…
For many college students, the week after graduation signals an opportunity to travel. For a lucky few, that might even include a trip abroad. For a group of Department of Nuclear Engineering students, it means both a chance to head to Europe and the opportunity of a lifetime.
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