Five years ago, UMR became the first in Missouri to offer a bachelor of science degree program in architectural engineering.
Now the program -- still the only one in state -- has been accredited by ABET Inc. (formerly known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology). Only a handful of architectural engineering programs in the United States are accredited. The ABET panel that evaluated UMR’s program was particularly impressed by the fact that all the programs in the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department require students to complete a senior capstone project and work with students from different engineering disciplines.
Later this fall, another ABET panel will review the department’s undergraduate environmental engineering program, which became the state’s first when it was established in 2002. It’s one of the few available in the Midwest and had its first graduates in 2005.
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