College of Engineering

Dean: Eric W. Kaler

Development contact: Kevin O'Brien, associate vice president of University development

(302) 831-2104, [kobrien@udel.edu]

Campaign for Delaware goal: $45 million

Gifts and commitments as of Aug. 1: $35 million

Outstanding needs:

The $27 million renovation and expansion of Du Pont Hall, which will be formally rededicated in September, is in need of additional support. Various naming opportunities are available.

As part of the Campaign for Delaware, the College is seeking $5 million for endowed faculty support, providing the resources necessary to recruit and build an ever more distinguished faculty of talented teachers, mentors and researchers.

The College also is seeking $13 million as part of its Campaign efforts, for named, endowed fellowships and scholarship support. Such efforts will open the doors for top-tier talent at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and will enable the College to compete successfully for exceptional students.

Recent examples of generous donors making a difference in the College:

• Robert L. Gore, EG '59, and the Gore family have given $1 million to the Department of Chemical Engineering to endow new named professorships. Effective Sept. 1, Antony N. Beris is the Arthur B. Metzner Professor of Chemical Engineering and Abraham M. Lenhoff is the Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering. Metzner
  is H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering.
  
  
• An endowment has been created through the generosity of the Unidel Foundation to support the Robert L. Pigford Professorship of Chemical Engineering, which is held by Mark A. Barteau. Dr. Pigford was chairperson of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 1947-66 and a member of the Board of Trustees from 1982 until his death in 1988.
  
  
• Richard E. Hangen, EG '63, the co-founder and chairman of the board of the engineering and consulting firm Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., has donated $50,000 to support Du Pont Hall. His gift will affiliate his name with the Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory, a facility that provides tools for modern transportation planning. One of three university-based transportation control laboratories in the nation, it uses leading-edge communications and information technologies to smooth the flow of traffic throughout Delaware.
  
  
• The dean's conference room in Du Pont Hall has been made possible by a gift of $100,000 and named in honor of donors Thomas L. Gutshall, EG '60, and his wife, Kipp T. Gutshall. Thomas Gutshall is the chairman, CEO and founding member of Cepheid, a diagnostics company with emphasis on micro-machined systems and components for use in DNA testing.
  
  
• William Friend, EG '58M, retired executive vice president and director of the Bechtel Group, recently made a generous gift to endow a professorship.