The state Board of Regents Tuesday narrowly approved expanding the engineering program at Georgia Southern University to offer baccalaureate degrees in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering with classes set to begin in Fall 2011. "There are defining in moments in the life of every major university," said Dr. Brooks Keel, GSU president. "The approval to offer engineering degrees at Georgia Southern is definitely one of the most notable in our institution's more than 100-year history.