The College of Engineering's Homecoming Tailgate was a huge success with some 250 attendees. Dean Udpa received many positive comments about the event. The BBQ and a visit by Sparty were great, but the highlight of the event was the chance for alumni to talk to current students, faculty and advisors and to view their accomplishments first-hand. A lot of alumni returned to their homes feeling positive about the College, in general, and CSE, in particular!

MSU students Brian Hasselbeck, Rob Rutherford, and Jayson Vincent did an outstanding job of featuring the Boeing capstone projects to hundreds of engineering alumni and friends at the College of Engineering tent before the football game. They used two large flat panel displays (provide by CSE's Adam Pitcher) driven by two laptops. They used the flat panel displays to demo flight visualization software both from this semester and previous semesters, including the Blue Angels visualization system. Laptops were used for PowerPoint slides and for a live internet connection to Boeing's web site. You can find more information about the MSU/Boeing capstone project at http://cse498t02s.cse.msu.edu.

MSU students April Noren and Heather Melville also proved to be outstanding ambassadors for CSE, informing alumni of MSUWIC, our new Women in Computing Group, and fielding alumni questions. MSUWIC created a special poster for the event. You can find more information about MSUWIC at http://www.egr.msu.edu/msuwic.

CSE extends a special thanks to faculty and advisors who attended the event, and to a great group of student volunteers. Thanks also to the College of Engineering for sponsoring the tailgate and to Boeing for sponsoring our student capstone team.

Check out pictures from the tailgate at http://www.cse.msu.edu/gallery/