College of Engineering

The College

Outcomes Assessment



	About the College of Engineering
	Accreditation
	Educational Initiatives
	National Recognition
	Outcomes Assessment
	Minority Status
	College of Engineering - Strategic Plan

New Mexico State University (NMSU) is a thriving center of higher education dedicated to excellence in research and education. Strategically located near national research facilities with unsurpassed scientific resources, the University has emerged as a research leader with exceptional strength in engineering fields.

Accreditation

Programs leading to the Bachelor of Science in Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Industrial, Mechanical and Surveying Engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET.
Programs leading to the Bachelor of Science in Civil, Electronics and Computer and Mechanical Engineering Technology are accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of ABET.
The program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Information and Communication Technology is not designed to be an engineering technology program, and therefore, is not accredited by TAC of ABET.
The program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics is currently seeking accreditation.

ABET
111 Market Place, Suite 1050
Baltimore , MD 21202-4012
Telephone (410) 347-7700

Educational Initiatives

In addition to its academic programs, the NMSU College of Engineering supports a variety of special science and engineering education programs from the pre-college to the post-graduate levels. Serving as the cornerstone for these activities are partnerships with other organizations in the public and private sectors.

Many of these special educational initiatives focus on minority populations which historically have been under represented in science-based professions. The NMSU College of Engineering strongly believes that New Mexico's large pools of minority talent will provide major contributions towards meeting the nation's needs for science-based professionals. To help achieve this goal, the College is committed to providing quality programs to increase the participation of under represented minorities in engineering and science

National Recognition

NMSU continues to emerge as a major research institution. In FY 1999-2000, the College of Engineering's research contracts totaled more than $15 million for academic departments alone. The University as a whole has earned the distinction of being designated:

A Carnegie Research I Institution for the Advancement of Teaching as a Doctoral/Research University - Extensive. A total of 151 universities, 102 public institutions and 49 private ones, are included in this top classification.

Eighth among the national's universities in Total Obligations with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for 1994

Ninth among the nation's universities in University-based Total Engineering R&D expenditures by the American Society of Engineering Education for 1995

Eleventh in the nation in federally funded research in engineering in 1999, according to a National Science Foundation report.

Best Value for your Tuition Dollar according to the 2002 edition of the Kaplan Newsweek College Catalog. NMSU is also on the publication's list of "schools offering the best career services."

America's 100 Best College Buys, for the fifth consecutive year, designated by Institutional Research & Evaluation Inc., an independent research and consulting organization for higher education.

The Telemetering Center of Excellence in the United States by the International Foundation for Telemetering.

Outcomes

Departments

Civil, Agricultural and Geological Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Industrial Engineering

Surveying Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Engineering Technology

Mechanical Engineering

Minority Status

NMSU is:

Designated as a Minority Institution and has been placed on the Department of Education's List of Title III, Eligible Institutions
One of only two institutions classified as a Carnegie Research I Institution and a full member of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
Ranked by Hispanic magazine as one of the nation's Top 25 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics. The university regularly ranks among the Hispanic Outlook Top 100, published by Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education.

Minority Enrollment
Minority students represented 49 percent of the enrollment on NMSU's main campus (including Distance Education) in the Fall 2003 semester as shown in the chart below:

Ethnic Heritage	Number	Percentage
African American	442	3
American Indian/Alaskan Native	474	3
Asian/Pacific Islander	217	1
Hispanic	6,743	42
White/Other	8,298	51
Total	16,174	100

College of Engineering Minority Honors
NMSU's distinguished College of Engineering alone accounted for:

About 50 percent of all minority graduates who received baccalaureate degrees from New Mexico's six public four-year institutions in 1990-91 in physical science and engineering
Almost 3 percent of all minority baccalaureate engineering degrees in the nation that same year
Over 70 students selected to participate in the prestigious National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (GEM) during the past 10 years
A large minority student enrollment for the College that is 42.3 percent Hispanic, 3.3 percent American Indian, 1.7 percent Black, and 18.3 percent female in the Fall 2003 semester.

For more information about the College of Engineering, contact:

College of Engineering
MSC 3449
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
505-646-7234
http://engr.nmsu.edu
engrdean@nmsu.edu