$2.5 Million Science Grant Supports Engineering Students at MSU and LCC

The National Science Foundation (NSF) gave Michigan State University’s (MSU) College of Engineering and Lansing Community College (LCC) a $2.5 million grant in hopes of increasing the number of engineering students that come out of the schools

The county has seen a decline in the number of university-level science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students during the last few years, says Tom Wolff, principal investigator and associate dean for undergraduate studies at the MSU College of Engineering.

Many students who decide to give engineering a try drop the program by their second year of college.

“The focus of this grant is to form connections early on to ensure that our incoming freshmen have all the academic care and support they need to get them successfully into the third year,” Wolff says.

The five-year NSF-funded STEP grant supports MSU’s latest efforts to retain these students, including the new Cornerstone Engineering courses and the Residential Experience for Spartan Engineering.

Source: Michigan State University

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