{"id":7747,"date":"2022-11-14T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2022-11-14T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T17:08:09","slug":"engineering-the-future-of-mizzou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/11\/14\/engineering-the-future-of-mizzou\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering the future of Mizzou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled-1-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of President Choi talking with College of Engineering faculty and staff in Ketcham Auditorium.\" class=\"wp-image-7748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled-1-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled-1-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled-1-768x1036.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled-1-1138x1536.jpg 1138w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled-1-1518x2048.jpg 1518w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Engineering-visit-1-scaled-1.jpg 1897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi talks with College of Engineering faculty and staff in Ketcham Auditorium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the next stop on my campus tour, I met with faculty and staff from the College of Engineering. Their work supporting our students\u2019 growing interest across ten undergraduate degree programs is remarkable. I was trained as an engineer and feel kinship with those who study and further the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We discussed continuing that momentum with MizzouForward. To date, about 10% of new MizzouForward hires are from engineering \u2013 and we have plans to recruit even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I challenged faculty to share with national colleagues the many perks of MizzouForward, including startup investments in new faculty research. I also encouraged them to be ambassadors for Mizzou on campus and to advise students to consider graduate school early in their academic career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the college expands its influence, we will explore additional innovative collaborations \u2013 such as those with industry partners and the team at the MU Research Reactor (MURR) \u2013 which benefit our research mission and positively impact Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next stop on my campus tour, I met with faculty and staff from the College of Engineering. Their work supporting our students\u2019 growing interest across ten undergraduate degree programs is remarkable. I was trained as an engineer and feel kinship with those who study and further the field. We discussed continuing that momentum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}