Since being founded in 1998, the FACES program at Georgia Tech has aided in an substantial increase of minority PhD students.  Over 300 minority PhD students have graduated from Georgia Tech since 1998, with 2011 being the 50th anniversary of the first African-American students matriculating at Georgia Tech. 

About Faces

Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) was founded in 1998 by Dr. Gary May, the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, along with Jeff Streator, Mechanical Engineering (associate professor); Reggie DesRoches, Civil Engineering (associate chair); Stephen Ruffin, Aerospace Engineering (associate professor) and other faculty on the GT campus.  FACES seeks to increase the number of African-Americans in the field of engineering and science with the ultimate goal being to increase the number of African-American faculty members in these areas at colleges and universities. 

For more information on FACES, you can visit the FACES website.