The Bagley College of Engineering’s diversity program has a mission to increase the participation of minorities and women in the field of engineering. The program has been extremely successful in the past few years placing the Bagley College of Engineering in the top 15 institutions of higher learning in terms of graduating minority engineers.

Through the diversity office located in the McCain Engineering Building, students have the opportunity to join a number of groups that promote diversity and enhance the experiences of minority and women students throughout their college career. Each of these programs strives to create an educational environment of inclusiveness and high academic excellence that will continue to succeed in graduating and preparing minority students and women for an engineering career.

NSBE
The National Society of Black Engineers is an organization that encourages academic excellence, professional success and community involvement in its members. The MSU chapter of NSBE strives to increase the number of culturally responsible black engineers and send them into the profession as leaders in their field. Click here to learn more.		 SWE
The Society of Women in Engineering is a national organization that is dedicated to changing the face of engineering and helping female engineers succeed in a professional and personal capacity growing as leaders as well as engineers. The MSU student section hosts Girl Scout Badge Day and assists with WISE Women & Women in Action summer programs. Click here to learn more.		 IMAGE
Increasing Minority Access to Graduate Education is a program that provides a chance for early exposure and preparation for scientific study and research for interested undergraduates. Created in 1991, IMAG E strives to provide a sense of community for minority students and develop connections between upper and lower classmen minority students. Click here to learn more.

SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM
The MSU/IMAGE Summer Bridge Program (SBP) is a part of the Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation. All eight state supported institutions of higher learning use a Summer Bridge Program to help incoming minority freshman students adjust to university life at their respective institutions. Twenty incoming freshmen will be selected to participate in the Summer Bridge Program at Mississippi State University, in the following areas of study; Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology. Click here to learn more and download an application.

For more information about the diversity programs at the Bagley College of Engineering, please contact Dr. Tommy Stevenson at tommy@bagley.msstate.edu.

 

Upcoming Events

IMAGE Summer Bridge Program: July 7 – August 5, 2008
Application Deadline: April 13, 2008
Notification of Acceptance will be made by May 31, 2008

Click here to download and print pdf format of the application.

If you wish to fill out the application online, you must submit
part 1 and part 2 of the application.