CSUB's new engineering programs mean progress
By The Bakersfield Californian
Cal State Bakersfield continues to move toward relevancy in a most essential field of study: engineering. The university's faculty has OK'd the creation of its second and third engineering degree programs -- electrical engineering and engineering science.
As soon as President Horace Mitchell and the California State University Chancellor's Office approve, the new programs will get the green light to start in the fall. That will give CSUB three engineering programs, joining computer engineering, which in 2010 became the school's first program in that discipline.
The Bakersfield area is long overdue to be developing these programs, given the pervasiveness here of the petroleum industry and alternative energy efforts. Too many promising students leave the area to study engineering, and all too often they never come back. CSUB continues to take steps to stem that exodus.
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