College Awards
Every spring, the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences recognizes outstanding students for academics, service, research, teaching, and leadership. Below are the honorees for 2019.
Student awardees at the 2019 Honors and Awards Ceremony: Julia Funk, Hailey Mundell, Thomas Randall, John Kimsey, Jake Flynn, Sakib Khan, Gabriel Carrillo, Sarah Baum, Sarah Sandler, Hannah Cash, Morgan Witherspoon, Alison Balthaser.
Robert W. Moorman Award
Dr. Robert W. Moorman was the son of Commandant Thomas Moorman, a graduate in Civil Engineering and Head of the Engineering Mechanics Department from 1958–1974. The Robert W. Moorman Award is given in his honor to the most outstanding junior in engineering on the basis of scholarship and character. This year’s winner is:
Major Selection and Post-College Financial Obligations by Hannah Cash | December 22, 2020 | Winter 2018
Imagine telling your family you hope that you or your child majors in philosophy. Feel the blank stare. Watch the slow head-nod. Researcher Natasha Quadlin knows this is an odd scenario because the major is considered wildly unmarketable. But perhaps this is actually a good sign: perceived financial obligations after college may affect students’ major selection during college.
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, Quadlin’s new
Social Forces piece investigates how three funding sources (loans, family contributions, and grants) affect students’ choice of study. Quadlin sorts majors into either applied or academic where applied fields are oriented to a specific job, such as nursing or engineering, and academic fields fall typically in the social sciences and humanities and into STEM and non-S