Make a Gift : Current Named Funds
Alumni Award for General Engineering Students Fund
This fund currently provides one scholarship per year but was established
with the goal of supporting ten awards. The award ($1,000 per year)
is presented to an outstanding student in General Engineering in
recognition of active citizenship and professional promise.
Jerry S.
Dobrovolny Distinguished Professorship in Large-Scale Systems
Design
This named professorship honors one of the most distinguished educators
and leaders in the history of the Department of General Engineering,
Jerry S. Dobrovolny. This professorship directly benefits our students
and enhances the excellence of our departmental faculty. Professor
Dave Goldberg is the current holder of the Dobrovolny Professorship,
and
the money from this fund helps to support Professor Goldberg and
his students’ work in the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory.
Engineer
in Residence Fund
This fund supports our "Engineer in Residence" program,
thanks to an initial gift from Thomas A. Prickett, 1997—99
president of the General Engineering Alumni and Industry Advisory
Board. During
a visit to campus and informal meetings with students, alumni
discuss work experiences and what it takes to become a successful
practitioner,
specifically addressing those topics not taught in standard engineering
classes. Additionally, they speak to students in the senior seminar
class. Having spoken to senior seminar students for several years,
Prickett was committed to providing opportunities for students and
alumni to
interact and discuss issues on a personal level, especially questions
that might be related to their aspirations and careers. By establishing
this fund, his goal is that fellow alumni will join him in supporting
this program.
Facilities Fund
The faculty and students of IESE deserve state-of-the-art space
that reflects the caliber of work being done in the Transportation
Building.
As the fields of engineering and engineering education change
and technological innovations come along, improvement of existing
classrooms,
laboratories,
and equipment are needed to provide the optimum learning and
teaching environments. We are working to renovate existing
space and to
create new facilities for the senior design capstone project
course, to develop
a tiered seminar room with teleconferencing capabilities, and
to remodel the first floor hallways to include illuminated
display cases,
which
will showcase the honors bestowed on our faculty and students.
Our most ambitious undertaking at the moment is the renovation
of the Senior
Design Laboratory space. This is a project that touches the
lives of every student in our program. The campus has given us
seed money for
the project and we have to raise an additional $400,000 from
our alumni and friends to see it through to completion. Please
consider
a generous
gift or pledge to the Facilities Fund in addition to your support
of our other programs.
IESE Fellowship Fund
It is our goal to have the top-ranked graduate program in the
country, and to achieve this it is crucial that we position
ourselves to
be competitive in recruiting the brightest students. The
way to do that is to draw
them to Illinois, not only with the strength of our faculty
and programs (like the recently established Ph.D. in Systems
and Entrepreneurial Engineering), but with fellowship money.
We compete
with both industry
and other universities in terms of recruiting graduate students.
Fellowship
support is frequently a key decision factor, and the typical
amount needed for a full fellowship on campus is in excess
of $14,000 per year. By giving to the Fellowship Fund you
can help offset
some
of the costs
faculty incur in order to provide a research assistantship
to their graduate students
GE Scholars Award Fund
Were you a GE Scholar? Are you interested in supporting academically
outstanding students in General Engineering? These awards
were started by the department to recruit and retain students.
In
recent years, $1,000
scholarships have been given to the top students in each
class as identified by cumulative GPA. The department is
committed to renewing existing
GE Scholar Awards, but no new awards can be offered because
there is no funding source for this annual expenditure.
This toss
may
place the
department at a significant disadvantage in recruiting
and retaining the most academically talented students.
IESE Fund
Gifts to this fund give the department head the flexibility
to respond to a variety of critical needs in the department.
Whether it is used
for start-up support for new faculty members, guest speakers
for lectures, alumni programming, the department newsletters,
or
student
activities,
these funds are used to enrich many aspects of life in
the department.
Women in General Engineering
Are you interested in supporting women in General Engineering?
Each year, the college-based Women in Engineering Program
offers merit-based scholarships to incoming freshman
women. The department
is asked
to
fund half of the cost for these scholarships and to
continue to fund the full amount for those students whose academic
achievements warrant
renewal. At the present time, there is no designated
funding source
for this, and it is impossible for us to participate
fully. Because 31% of the students in General Engineering
are
women (significantly above the college average of 19%),
we would especially
like
to
sustain these scholarships.
If you have questions about
current or deferred gifts, gifts of stock, securities, or property,
the power
of endowed and
named funds,
or to
request additional information about giving, please
call Lynnell Lacy (lynnell@illinois.edu) at 217-333-0140
{or
the U of I
Foundation's Office of Trust Relations and Planned
Giving at 217-333-0810}
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