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LSU College of Engineering highlights research growth; students present infant-seat alarm device
Summary
Dean Vicki Colvin described record research awards, fundraising for a new construction and advanced manufacturing building, rising enrollments and student retention. Two electrical engineering graduates presented a capstone device designed to alarm when a child is left in a car seat.
Vicki Colvin, dean of the College of Engineering at LSU, told the Board of Supervisors' Research and Agriculture Extension Committee that the college expects to exceed last year’s record for research awards by more than 10 percent come July 1 and has raised more than $40 million toward a new Construction and Advanced Manufacturing Building.
Colvin said the college’s freshmen interest in engineering, construction management and computer science is up more than 10 percent, and the college graduated more than 1,000 bachelor of science…
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