Endowed Student Support recognizes and rewards excellence

Talented and committed students are any university’s lifeblood. Our goal is to make sure that opportunities to recognize and reward excellence remain available to qualified students for high academic merit, financial need, under-representation, outstanding leadership, valued team members, designers and others who do outstanding work for the department. Endowments enable the department to recruit today’s most promising student leaders who will, in turn, immeasurably enrich Michigan Tech in the future, making your endowment one of the purest, most natural forms of intellectual capital recycling there is.

We need endowed student support for Graduate Fellowships, Graduate Student Recruitment Fund, Scholars/Honors Program and Women/Minority Scholarships and Fellowships.

Endowed Student Activity Funds deliver added value

In addition to having inspired faculty teaching an innovative curriculum, your support is needed to bring added value to our programs and to the students who complete their ME-EM education at Michigan Tech.

We need endowments for the Senior Recognition Banquet Fund (Order of the Engineer Ceremony), Engineering Learning Center Coaches Fund and the Computing Technology Teaching Fund.

Endowed Student Professional Activity

Awards encourage excellence While high academic achievement is important at any university, many students excel in additional areas, including leadership, design, teamwork, 5 and presentations. Knowing many of our distinguished, successful alumni achieved personal success in ME-EM through professional activities outside the classroom, we support, reward and encourage excellence in these activities.

We need endowments for Student Leadership Awards, Student Vehicle Competition Fund, Graduate and Undergraduate Recognition Awards, Senior Design Fund.

ME-EM Department Endowments fund the on-going pursuit of excellence

Endowing excellence and enhancing visibility for Michigan Tech and ME-EM require expenditures to present our faculty to the world and bring the world to our campus. These discretionary funds, managed by the chair of the department, enable the on-going pursuit of excellence, secure in the knowledge that dependable funds are available to seek out and support cutting-edge research and innovative teaching in many diverse disciplines and areas of specialization.

Examples of activities to be supported by the Department Endowment Fund include Faculty Professional Development Fund, Equipment Fund, New Faculty Start-Up Fund, Distinguished Seminar Series and Discretionary Fund.

Graduate Research Labs

This one-time investment expenditure would enable the ME-EM department to purchase state-of-the-art equipment and to remain competitive with other institutions. Although grants typically provide funds for unique equipment and upgrading once labs are in existence, initial set-up funds are difficult to obtain. We need to establish a graduate research lab in each of our five major research areas: Design, Dynamic Systems, Energy ThermoFluids, Manufacturing/ Industrial, and Solid Mechanics.

Other Funding Opportunities

The department needs to fund a building addition that would include a much-needed high bay for vehicle, engine and machine-tool work, as well as high-tech classrooms and offices. We plan to build a lobby to welcome students and visitors, and to showcase current student projects and the achievements of our alumni, faculty, and staff. To continue to meet the hardware and software requirements of high-end research computing, we need to upgrade the graduate computing laboratory. If you are interested in contributing to these funding opportunities, please inquire.

How to Make a Gift*

Gifts may be cash, stock, securities or real estate made payable to the Michigan Tech Fund, the University’s nonprofit gift-receiving agency. Gifts can be made outright or through pledges over a five-year period. We would also like to talk with you about planned giving through trusts, where you may increase your revenue, realize tax savings, and leave a legacy without affecting current income. Inquiries are welcome.
* See Planned Giving insert.

Naming Opportunities

Your gifts can be permanently recognized by naming specific endowments. Individual gifts in the amount of $10,000 or more would qualify. However, gifts of any amount are welcomed. You don’t have to be rich to enrich an education. You can designate your endowment to faculty, student and department enrichment initiatives. National student competitions and senior design projects require sophisticated equipment and expensive resources.