UC Engineers Forge New Relationship With Tuskegee University

The University of Cincinnati College of Engineering has joined forces with engineering faculty at Alabama's Tuskegee University in an effort to attract students in nuclear engineering and health physics professions.

The collaboration was formalized this month when representatives of Tuskegee's engineering programs visited UC. They were welcomed by Mitchel Livingston, vice president for Student Affairs and Human Resources; Ed Prather, assistant engineering dean; and several faculty members in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering (UCNRE).

The collaboration will be known as the UCNRE-TU Bridge Building Project and will focus on recruiting top Tuskegee students in engineering, physics, chemistry and mathematics.

An important component of the program will be identifying six Tuskegee seniors each year who will be designated "Bridge Scholars." Those students will have the opportunity to visit UC and work on undergraduate research projects with advisers at both UC and Tuskegee University.

The principal investigators on the project are Professor John Christenson (UC) and Professor Pradosh Ray (Tuskegee). The co-PIs are Syed Ali (Tuskegee) and Shoaib Usman (UC).

For more information about UC Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, visit the program's web site.