Messiah College’s School of Mathematics, Engineering and Business Scholarship Day presents array of senior projects
April 11th, 2008
GRANTHAM, Pa. (April 11, 2008) – In its fifth annual School of Mathematics, Engineering and Business Scholarship Day, Messiah College invites local business leaders, corporations, students, alumni and friends to meet faculty and students, visit the facilities, view senior year project presentations and learn more about the quality programs offered. The scholarship day will be held on May 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Frey Hall academic building on the college’s Grantham campus. It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Lori Zimmerman at (717) 796-5360.
Senior project presentations for the scholarship day cover a variety of topics and concerns. Students are often encouraged to develop projects whose aim is addressing social concerns. For example, projects in the past have involved the development of a water purification system with assemblage costs affordable for villages in rural West Africa, experiments with biodiesel production, and inexpensive medical aspirators for hospitals in developing countries. Such projects reflect the mission of the School of Mathematics, Engineering and Business to “graduate students who are competent in their disciplines, broadly educated in the liberal arts, aware of the ethical challenges and dilemmas of a fallen world and prepared to be lifelong learners.”
Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls 2,800 undergraduate students in 55 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.