University of Indianapolis Announces Accreditation for Engineering Programs, $1.8 Million Gift, and Establishment of High School Partnership – UIndy 360

The College of Indianapolis introduced immediately that the R.B. Annis College of Engineering bachelor’s diploma applications in Industrial & Methods Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Software program Engineering have been accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Fee of ABET, the worldwide accreditor of faculty and college applications in utilized and pure science, computing, engineering, and engineering expertise.

ABET accreditation assures that applications meet requirements to provide graduates able to enter vital technical fields which are main the way in which in innovation and rising applied sciences, and anticipating the welfare and security wants of the general public.

“We’re very excited to announce this accreditation. It’s been the fruits of a number of years of onerous work and is a testomony to our college, present college students, and up to date graduates,” mentioned Affiliate Dean and Director of the R.B. Annis College of Engineering Dr. Ken Reid. “Having the ABET seal exhibits to outdoors events about our program’s legitimacy what we and our company and group companions knew to be true: That we now have a world-class college and curriculum right here on the Annis College.”

Sought worldwide, ABET’s voluntary peer-review course of is very revered as a result of it provides vital worth to tutorial applications within the technical disciplines, the place high quality, precision and security are of the utmost significance.

Developed by technical professionals from ABET’s member societies, ABET standards concentrate on what college students expertise and study. ABET accreditation opinions have a look at program curricula, college, services, and institutional help and are carried out by groups of extremely expert professionals from business, academia and authorities, with experience within the ABET disciplines.

ABET is a nonprofit, non-governmental group with ISO 9001:2015 certification. It presently accredits 4,361 applications at 850 schools and universities in 41 nations and areas.

Extra details about ABET, its member societies and the accreditation standards used to guage applications might be discovered at www.abet.org.  

Zane and Frances Todd Present

The College of Indianapolis has obtained a $1.8 million present from Zane and Frances Todd. The present will likely be used to determine the Zane and Frances Todd Advantage and Management Students Fund endowment, which is able to help college students majoring in STEM-related fields, with a particular emphasis on engineering. 

Zane Todd, retired chairman and chief govt officer of Indianapolis Energy and Gentle Firm, served on the UIndy Board of Trustees from 1977 to 1991 and served because the Chair of the Board from 1981 to 1991. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from UIndy in 1993. He and his spouse, Frances, who additionally labored at IPL, had been married for 29 years. 

“We’re grateful to the Todds for his or her beneficiant help of our college students and their futures,” mentioned Interim President Phil Terry. “The College stays devoted to making sure our college students have entry to one of the best schooling we will provide and presents like these not solely permit us increase entry, but in addition to construct upon our robust applications. We stay up for persevering with the expansion of our STEM applications right here at UIndy.” 

“Zane and Frances Todd had an unbelievable imaginative and prescient for the way forward for engineering at UIndy even earlier than the R.B. Annis College of Engineering was established,” mentioned Dr. Ken Reid, affiliate dean and director of the R.B. Annis College of Engineering. “Now, we’re fulfilling that imaginative and prescient and constructing upon it to domesticate the following technology of proficient, modern engineers.”

The present may even be used to fund the Frances and Zane Todd Advantage and Management Students in Well being Sciences and Nursing scholarship funds. The scholarships may have choice for non-traditional college students, in honor of Zane’s personal background, together with college students who’re working to fund their schooling; college students who’ve been honorably discharged from navy service; college students who’ve kids for which they’ve monetary accountability; and college students who’re married.

Excessive College Partnerships

The College additionally introduced immediately its partnership with 4 Indianapolis-area excessive faculties to assist present incentive to space college students to attend greater schooling in addition to present these excessive faculties with the sources out there inside the R.B. Annis College of Engineering. The 4 excessive faculties concerned within the partnership are Fishers Excessive College, Pike Excessive College, Perry Meridian Excessive College and Southport Excessive College.

Every year, representatives from these faculties will choose one potential engineering pupil, primarily based on their very own standards, and the College of Indianapolis will award them—contingent upon their acceptance on the College—with a full-tuition scholarship to review on the R.B. Annis College of Engineering. Moreover, college from the R.B. Annis College commit to creating themselves out there to go to these companion faculties to provide talks or assist in school rooms. 

“Proper now, simply 54% of Indiana highschool seniors are pursuing 4-year faculty levels, we wish to do our half to extend that quantity and higher put together college students for greater schooling,” mentioned Reid. “These partnerships will permit us to work extra intently with the scholars and lecturers in these faculties to assist strengthen engineering inside Ok-12, and put together these college students for greater schooling and to arrange them for STEM careers.”

Phil Terry, interim president on the College added, “The Annis College is assembly a vital want in our state’s economic system by making ready career-ready engineers who’re educated in a tradition of collaborative innovation and entrepreneurship.” 

College students and school within the College are constructing group and business connections by way of the Annis College’s Design-Backbone curriculum with companions that embody Crane Naval Base, Residents Power, Huntington Financial institution, Anthem NGS, Easterseals Crossroads and others. The category of 2022 had a 96% placement price upon commencement with a mean wage of over $72,000.