CLARKSVILLE, TN – Austin Peay State University has received a National Science Foundation planning grant to enhance student success by ensuring engineering physics and engineering technology students find their ideal academic path from day one.
The two-year RED (Revolutionizing Engineering Departments) planning grant brings together faculty from both programs. While Dr. Alex King serves as principal investigator in his role as chair of the Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy, the grant emerged from collaborative work with Dr. Emmabeth Vaughn from engineering physics and Ravi Manimaran and Jody Alberd from engineering technology.
With this grant, Vaughn, who also holds another active NSF grant with Dr. Bobette Bouton in the College of Education for engineering empathy research, becomes the first woman in Austin Peay history to have two NSF grants running simultaneously…