Did you see Michael Adams’ (uga President at the time) presentation to get that approved? I öööö you not, his argument was that GT engineers were too high quality and made too much. His argument was that there’s a need for low wage engineers in central and south GA. He argued, successfully, that those jobs were being filled by Clemson, Auburn, and Florida grads and that Georgia needed a program to compete.
Never mind that ugag really wanted an engineering school to split the State’s research funds or that the real answer to his problem is Engineering Technology degrees.