Dr. Matt Pierson is an assistant professor of Civil Engineering at Missouri State University.
Besides building things, he is passionate about educational opportunities for students. In that vein, he has submitted funding proposals to the National Science Foundation on several occasions and recently was awarded a substantial grant from the S-STEM initiative.
This grant will enable Pierson and his team to fund a scholarship-based retention enhancement program, designed to assist students in Computer Science, Math, Engineering and Physics.
Listen in as Pierson explains the motivations, goals and methodologies designed to keep students in the pipeline.