Four Mississippi State students will face the next school year with a little less financial worry weighing them down. Each has earned a $2,000 scholarship from the world’s largest engineering honor society. Two of the students were from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The Tau Beta Pi scholarships were each funded by different…
More than 30 Mississippi State students and two university faculty members are 2009 spring initiates of Tau Beta Pi international engineering honor society. Out of that group four were Industrial and Systems Engineering students. Founded in 1885 at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, the organization now is based at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Over the…
Brooks Davis persevered and survived. He is a college transfer success story. At 18 years old, he enrolled in college right out of high school. The stressors he felt were not atypical of most college freshmen. Every year, more than 380,000 students drop out of college because of a multitude of stressors, including juggling finances,…