St. Ambrose University has won a $600,000 grant to use toward scholarships for students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
The Davenport university was one of 85 schools nationwide to receive a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation in an effort to prepare more engineers to go into one of the fastest-growing career fields in the nation.
The goal at St. Ambrose is to graduate at least 50 more engineers within the next five years. As part of the grant, this work will include outreach to smaller, rural schools in Iowa and Illinois.
The grant also will support undergraduate engineering research, training for faculty, stipends for students who assist faculty research and job-placement initiatives.
St. Ambrose currently offers two engineering degree programs: industrial engineering and mechanical engineering.
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