Outlook Magazine - Fall 2020

STOUT PROUD NUMBERS

Up for the fifth straight year. 98.8%

Employment and continuing education rate for recent graduates.

TOP 8 Plastics engineering program cited as one of the best in the U.S. by Plastics Today, a publication for plastics professionals. 14TH UW-Stout’s U.S. News and World Report 2020 ranking among public regional universities in the Midwest, up two places from 2019. 2ND AND 3RD Apparel design and development team’s awards in the 2019 Advanced Textiles Student Design Competition in Florida. $305,834 U.S. Department of Defense grant for a regional cybersecurity symposium on campus and for student scholarships. THREE 1ST’S + 2ND Three graphic communications students won in the national Gutenberg Awards and took second as a team in the Phoenix Challenge College Competition.

1ST AND 8TH Katherine P. Frank — first female leader and eighth leader overall in school history. $342,000 National Science Foundation grant awarded to LAKES research experience for undergraduates program, the third three-year grant to study regional water quality. 3RD The place taken by a team of seven construction majors in the national student challenge in January at the National Association of Home Builders show in Las Vegas. 1,760 Number of N95 masks that Dunn County Emergency Management purchased from the School of Art and Design. NO. 1 Student chapter of the Club Management Association of America named Chapter of the Year at the World Club Managers Conference in February in Texas.

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