Seniors participating in the Engaged Learning Project will give their final presentations at the Engaged Learning Symposium from Jan. 27-29 in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum. The project, SMU’s most prestigious student engagement program, funds proposals up to $2,000 and is listed on student transcripts.

The current projects for the 2014-2015 academic year include 17 Lyle School of Engineering students. Richard Matthew Nixon, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering with minors in math and economics, expanded a group microfinance project with the creation of business development workshops for his proposal.

Nixon believes his initiative would fail without the funding of the Engaged Learning Project.

“Engaged Learning helped us incorporate in order to become our own entity when our financial-overseer dissolved,” Nixon said.

The Sanger, Texas, native will present about his involvement with Props Social Ventures, Inc., a financial service organization in Dallas Thursday 11 a.m.