Giving to Rutgers Engineering

Past gifts have provided crucial assistance for:

Faculty support

Endowed professorships enable us to recruit and retain leading scholars. In addition, unrestricted gifts to the Dean's Academic Excellence Fund have made it possible to cover costs related to faculty members' scholarly work such as equipment and laboratory enhancements, editorships on prestigious journals, or participation at conferences in order to keep the Rutgers name and faculty at the forefront on the national and international level.

Student support

Engineering alumni have provided key support through endowed undergraduate scholarships. This private support helps us retain bright young men and women in a vibrant community of relevant academic inquiry. Other costs, such as student travel to professional conferences, costs related to student research, and student presentations at conferences, have been met through alumni gifts to the Dean's Academic Excellence Fund.

Likewise, Engineering alumni have provided critically needed private funding for support of graduate engineering students. It is well known that the distinction of the graduate program drives the quality of the undergraduate program. What is needed is funding for graduate fellowships so that the Rutgers School of Engineering can offer competitive packages to attract talented graduate students to work with our distinguished faculty and with undergraduates.

Facilities and Equipment

Renovating facilities and providing state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment are essential to helping Rutgers Engineering stay ahead of the curve. Funds are needed to help meet the costs of updating laboratories, lecture halls and other research facilities that will enhance the teaching and learning environment.

New facilities

Biomedical

Construction is nearing completion on a stunning new home for Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers - a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility for this exploding program. The prestigious Whitaker Foundation, whose charter is to support biomedical engineering research and education at academic institutions across the country, has offered a major $3 million Challenge Grant toward the completion of this extraordinary building. This award is both an acknowledgment of our past accomplishments and an endorsement of our future potential. Help us meet the goal for this challenge grant by giving online now.

Transportation

This state-of-the art, 15,000 square foot facility will be the new home for the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), a federally designated university transportation center (UTC), and First Year Engineering. Features include CAIT's core facilities for advanced highway materials, intelligent transportation, large scale infrastructure simulation, transportation safety and security, and the home for the federal Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP). Recent Engineering alumni gifts have helped equip a 100-seat auditorium at the heart of this new facility and a laboratory. Future gifts will add important resources, enabling Rutgers to provide the best engineering education for today's students. Make a gift to CAIT now online or, for more information, contact Enrica Gioè Chrétien, Director of Development, at chretien@rutgers.edu; (732) 445-4288.