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• Auburn Engineering houses nine departments, offering 12 undergraduate degrees and five minors, and 26 graduate degrees.
• The college offers the state's largest engineering program according to the American Society for Engineering Education and is the University's largest in terms of enrollment
• Auburn engineering awards more than $2.0 million in scholarships annually to engineering students  
• The university offers the nation's first and only bachelor's degree in wireless engineering, graduating the first students in 2004. It is the first program in the Southeast to offer bachelor's and master's degrees in software engineering and the only state university offering a polymer and fiber engineering program.
• Auburn Engineering students comprise approximately 25 percent of those who graduate with honors university-wide and 80 percent of co-op students.
• Beyond the classroom, students gain hands-on, real-world experience in student competitions that include Formula SAE race cars, SAE Mini Baja all-terrain vehicles, and SAE Aero Design unmanned airplanes, as well as fuel cell powered cars, robotics, ergonomics, materials handling design and concrete canoes.
• Ongoing investments in new research equipment, more than $30 million in renovations and $108 million in new construction, adding 225,000 square feet of classroom, laboratory and office space, are ensuring that the college's facilities remain state-of-the-art. 
• The college is home to 15 research centers and numerous laboratories. It is highly ranked in research funding per faculty member and conducts approximately half of the university's annual research. Research areas include aerospace engineering, bioprocess/environmental engineering, fiber technology, food safety, highway/asphalt technology, information technology, materials processing, microelectronics, nanotechnology, occupational safety and ergonomics, pulp and bioresources, technology management, transportation technology, vehicle electronics and wireless engineering.
• Auburn engineering is represented by more than 30,000 Auburn Engineering alumni around the globe, including more than 12,000 in Alabama
• The college has a rich heritage of solid engineering disciplines that combine fundamentals with real-world experience