The annual Engineering Career Conference (ECC) introduces engineering disciplines as well as students and faculty members from each of the College of Engineering’s eight schools and departments to high school students.

The high schoolers from across Georgia and the Southeast participated in a series of half-hour sessions with representatives from each academic program. The conference format was highly interactive, allowing high schoolers to view demonstrations, ask questions of undergraduate panelists, meet engineering graduate students, and participate in interactive design challenges.

Sessions were led by chairs, associate chairs, outreach directors, graduate students, undergraduates, and others. By the end of the conference, CoE schools presented a total of 64 well-crafted information sessions about their units. The number of students attending ECC more than tripled to 260 participants in 2024!