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You can also make a quick and secure gift online to a number of areas listed below. If you wish to support a purpose other than those listed, please contact us for assistance. Thank you!
Involve, encourage and inspire! Support student projects, apprenticeships, and faculty and staff awards for excellence, which are proven to significantly boost student achievement. The Dean鈥檚 Fund for Excellence provides financial support for research, teaching and hands-on learning where it is most needed. Donors who contribute $1,000 or more are recognized as valued members of the Dean鈥檚 Club.
The role of chemistry, biology, physics and math in addressing the multitude of challenges involved in developing fuel, drugs, food and many other products makes our Chemical and Biological Engineering Department essential to the world of manufacturing. You can make a real difference in advancing our widely-acclaimed department, which is recognized globally for research in biorefining and biofuels, membranes, pharmaceutical biotechnology, and photopolymerization. Your support will bring new teaching and research programs to life and help existing programs gain more traction. Help keep this strong department at the forefront of its field with a gift today.
Help us design and build the communities of tomorrow! We are nationally recognized for innovative teaching methods and research in sustainable infrastructure and energy efficiency, and we welcome your support. Your donation will help advance our programs in building systems engineering, construction engineering and management, environmental engineering, geo-environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, materials and mechanics, structural engineering, and water resource engineering. Please help the department address rapidly changing market needs and challenges today.
When it comes to human-computer interaction, numerical and scientific computing, machine learning and software engineering, our Computer Science Department is top-notch at preparing students to be leaders in this vital industry. Your support will strengthen the education and training that students receive in this constantly changing world of connectivity. When you donate to our Computer Science general fund, you will be making a real difference in the way our students receive hands-on education, enhanced by collaboration with industrial affiliates in a learning track tailored to match their interests.
If you share our commitment to meeting today鈥檚 pressing energy needs, we invite you to help grow our internationally-renowned faculty, lab-intensive curriculum, and world-class research program to ensure that the innovative concepts developed by our students and faculty become reality. Your donation will help our students become professionals in design, production, testing, consulting, research teaching or management in the computer industry, biomedical industry, aerospace or academia. Support our challenging academic and research program for the success of future Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering professionals.
Mechanical Engineering addresses the most pressing needs of human society! Improving our health, environment, transportation and communications is the goal of cutting-edge technology developed each year by our Mechanical Engineering Department, attracting more students than any other department in the College. If you share their passion and want to have a lasting impact on their growth and success, donate today. Your gift will play an important role in helping our students become the strong professionals that our world needs.
Practical experience often serves as the best teacher, providing an opportunity to combine classroom-based learning with hands-on training in the workforce. We need your support of our Active Learning Program to enhance our students鈥 knowledge and skills while they earn wages and simultaneously meet important community needs. Your donation will help them get a head start on their professional careers through co-ops and internships that are action-oriented and introduce them to meaningful work opportunities in the field of engineering.
The ATLAS institute is a place where artists write code and robots read body language; where the unexpected is the norm and creativity is currency. We wear many hats鈥攁rtist, engineer, technologist, humanitarian, designer鈥攁nd together we form a lively interdisciplinary research and learning community driven by insatiable curiosity. Your donation will support the innovative programmatic initiatives at the ATLAS Institute.
The Biomedical Engineering Program is an exciting, multidisciplinary field that lies at the interface of medicine, biology and engineering. Biomedical engineers create technology to save lives and improve the quality of life. Your support will enhance the experience of biomedical engineering students and accelerate the research impact of the faculty.
Your support of this program strengthens our efforts toward fostering a diverse environment where all engineering students are welcome. The BOLD Center empowers women and minorities to achieve their dream and equip them for success through graduation and beyond. Some of our programs and activities include:
- ASPIRE Summer Bridge, a residential academic program for first-year students before their freshman year. ASPIRE is a great opportunity to observe student life on the CU-麻豆影院 campus and make lifelong friends.
- The Engineering GoldShirt Program, which supports motivated and talented students who need additional math, science, or humanities preparation before diving into the full undergraduate engineering curriculum. For this cohort-oriented, five-year curriculum, students are directly admitted into the college. First-year course work focuses on enhancing student preparation for success in their chosen engineering major. The BOLD team provides mentoring, academic, and social support for all GoldShirt students. Leadership and personal development training are also part of the program鈥檚 unique curriculum.
- The Student Success Center, which is open to all students and provides six-days of tutoring weekly, both within the BOLD Center and in specific dorms.
- Support for several diversity-serving, professional engineering societies that provide a variety of functions, including hosting guest speakers, organizing social events, sponsoring student attendance at national conferences, and sponsoring entries in national competitions.
Many more activities! Including: math workgroups, 鈥淢ocktail鈥 networking events, etiquette dinners, and 鈥淓xplore Engineering鈥 days designed for high school girls, minorities, transfer and non-traditional students to explore engineering, with lab experiences and hands-on projects. Admissions, financial aid, and scholarship information is also provided.
The Environmental Engineering (EVEN) Program is one of the top programs in the nation, and your support will help us continue to grow. The EVEN program provides a well-rounded education covering different areas of interest in environmental engineering, including water quality, air quality, remediation, energy, and applied ecology. Your contribution to the EVEN program will support the education and training of our students, including the recruitment of a diverse student body. Your contribution will also help us provide financial support for activities that will enhance the experiences of our students, including professional development activities, travel grants, and scholarships.
The Herbst Program engages engineering students in the great ongoing conversations of human existence and develops communication and thinking skills that will enhance their lives and careers. All Herbst classes count toward Humanities and Social Sciences requirements in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Your donation to this program will support the broad-based education that engineering students can experience at CU 麻豆影院 and develop well-rounded graduates who are prepared for success in both work and society.
Your support of the Idea Forge provides students with the hands-on experience they need as they transition from academia into practice. The collaborative workspace is equipped with a series of reconfigurable, interconnected 鈥渕akerspaces鈥 where formal and informal learning enhance each other. Idea Forge programming connects with industry and the community to provide training and support for student teams working on invention and innovation as part of courses, as well as design and development driven by entrepreneurial-minded individuals and service-oriented groups.
Your support of the Integrated Design Engineering (IDE) program will help students who want to pursue an engineering degree with an additional concentration in another area of study, preparing them for a broad range of career opportunities. An IDE degree consists of foundational coursework, engineering core courses, a selected emphasis in Aerospace, Architectural, Civil, Electrical, Environmental or Mechanical Engineering, and a chosen concentration either within or outside of engineering. This program establishes a disciplinary engineering foundation while allowing the pursuit of an additional passion. Students gain confidence and professional skills emphasizing leadership, collaboration and communication through these multiple team-based courses. A donation to Engineering Plus will provide support for this hands-on, design-based degree that widens the base of opportunity for our students upon graduation.
The value of experiential learning is the cornerstone of our Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Program, and your donation will support this amazing shared classroom facility for the six departments of CU-麻豆影院's College of Engineering and Applied Science. More than 4,000 students, 95 faculty, and 65 courses use these resources every year. Our modular experiments provide hands-on, real-world enhancements to traditional theory courses. Our expansive complex includes a manufacturing center, featuring fabrication equipment and hands-on instruction, and an electronics center, providing work space for students to design, test and fabricate electronic circuits. We also offer a wide range of hands-on engineering opportunities for K-12 teachers and students, faculty and the general public. Your support will strengthen and grow the valuable work performed here.
The Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and Resilience trains engineers to work in partnership with institutions and communities worldwide and combines education, research and partnerships to positively impact vulnerable people and their environments. Their program is based on the principle that students educated in Global Engineering should be prepared to solve engineering and science problems within the socioeconomic, environmental, and political constraints often encountered in low resource settings. Their vision is a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure. Your gift to this program can make a real difference for a large number of people.
Scholarships
Our college is firmly committed to admitting the most highly qualified students who apply and to increasing the diversity of our student body. We achieve these goals through the exceptional generosity of devoted alumni, parents, and friends who provide undergraduate scholarships. We invite you to make a significant and powerful difference in the life of a student by establishing a scholarship in your name or in honor/memory of a friend or family member. Scholarships can be established for the near term or in perpetuity via endowment.
Graduate Fellowships
Awarded to a graduate student, your fellowship gift supports advanced education and research and could even develop a new community-based initiative. To the recipient, your gift will be a tremendous help in devoting full-time focus to graduate study. For the college, fellowships are a wonderful recruitment tool as we work to attract the best and brightest students to our college. Graduate fellowships can be awarded in the area of your interest and may be established for the near term or in perpetuity via endowment.
Faculty Fellowships
Faculty fellowships support outstanding faculty whose teaching and research provide exceptional value to students and to the college. As such, fellowships help recruit and retain high-performing experts and help create a diverse community of scholars. Faculty fellowships can be awarded in the area of your interest and may be established for the near term or in perpetuity via endowment.
Endowed Professorships
Professorships are one of the highest forms of recognition provided by the College. Used to attract, reward and retain distinguished leaders, scholars, and educators of national and international reputation, professorships can propel research, help pay student workers, or create opportunities for collaboration with scholars around the world. Professorships can be awarded in the area of your interest and are typically established in perpetuity via endowment.
Endowed Chairs
An endowed chair is the most coveted faculty position, as it offers supplemental compensation and additional funding for research students and staff or state-of-the-art equipment. An endowed professor can pursue transformational engineering research with less concern for external grant availability.
Because of these advantages, an endowed chair is instrumental in luring and retaining world-class faculty who would otherwise take their talents to another top department. These high-caliber researchers attract the brightest graduate and undergraduate students and spur game-changing advancements in society, enhancing the reputation of their departments, our college, the university, and the engineering profession.
If you would like to make a transformational difference for the life of the college, we invite you to consider working with our advancement team on an endowed chair.