Fast Facts

The School of Engineering at Ole Miss is a high quality engineering school, which has produced many leaders in the engineering profession. Our graduates have made substantial impact in the State of Mississippi and in the nation. The School has a plan to move into another level of excellence. Below are only a few of the many achievements that the school and our alumni have accomplished.

Key Statistics for Fall 2007

Undergraduate enrollment 644 Number of freshmen 249 Average ACT for entering freshmen 23.84 Graduate enrollment 181 BS degrees conferred (Aug 2006 - May 07) 100 Teaching Faculty 49 Vacant Faculty Positions 1 Research expenditure (FY2006-07) $12.4 Million Journal articles (FY2006-07) 88 Conference papers (FY2006-07) 118 Books and book chapters (FY2006-07) 12 Scholarly presentations (FY2006-07) 193

Alumni Achievements

Graduates of the School of Engineering have gone on to assume positions of responsibility and excel in many areas of the world including industry, government, and academia.

Industry

• John G. Adler, Chairman of Adaptec Inc.
• William Yates, President, Yates Construction Co.
• Henry C. Brevard Jr., President and CEO of B&B Concrete Co. Inc. of Tupelo
• James Barnette , President, Coastcon Corp. , Corpus Christi, Texas
• Gorman Schaffer , Executive Vice President, Neel-Schaffer, Inc.
• Al Roeder, President, Criterion Catalyst Company
• William D Young, President, Pinnacle Construction
• Guy Lane Arbuthnot, III, Former Vice President, TRW
• David Arnold, retired Senior Vice President, Mississippi Chemical

Government

• Richard E. Mayo, Subsystem Manager, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston
• Richard Baxter Wilson, retired CEO of Mississippi Power and Light
• T. Paul Teng, Director, Office of Infrastructure R&D, Federal Highway Administration
• Alfred Crawley, Former Chief Research Engineer, Department of Transportation, State of Mississippi
• Wade Stinson, Vice President, Construction and Maintenance, Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division

Academia

• Joseph Cerny, Head of Nuclear Science Division and Associate Director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
• John Prados, served as Acting Chancellor of University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus
• Paul Whitfield Murrill, former Chancellor of Louisiana State University and chief executive officer of Gulf States Utilities in Beaumont, Texas
• Chun-Tsung Wang, Former Dean of Engineering, National Taiwan University; Former President, National Taiwan Ocean University

Faculty Achievements

The world-class faculty of the School of Engineering have earned much respect and numerous awards for their work.

• Eight faculty (18%) are Fellows of Professional Societies (IEEE, IEE, ASME, ASCE, AIAA)
• Sixteen faculty (36%) served in some editorial capacity in various Professional Journals. In particular, seven are Editor-in-Chief and six are Associate Editors.
• Five faculty received the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Education Award
• One faculty received the ASME region XI John “Jack” Shortall Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award
• At the University level, two faculty members are holders of F.A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professorship, five received the University of Mississippi Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, one faculty received the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award, and two received the FRIST Student Service Award.

Recent Student Achievements

• Civil engineering students won first place in competitions on environmental engineering for two years in a row in the 2001 and 2000 ASCE Deep South Regional Conference.
• At the joint annual meeting of the Association of Engineering Geologists and the American Institute of Professional Geologists in November 2001 several students from the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering won best poster awards. In the undergraduate division, our students won first and second places. In the graduate division, our students won first and second places and tied for third place.
• An electrical engineering student received a 2nd place award in the best student paper contest in the 2001 Mississippi Academy of Science Annual Meeting.
• Mechanical engineering students won second place in the spring 2000 ASME Southeast Regional Design Competition (26 engineering schools).
• In 2001, three engineering students were University of Mississippi Taylor Medalists. One senior in electrical engineering was inducted into the 2001 Ole Miss Hall of Fame.
• In the May 2001 Honors College graduation, 11 of the 36 graduates were engineering students.
• Graduate schools which recently admitted our graduates included MIT, Georgia Tech., and University of Texas, Austin