What Gifts Have Done in the Past

Private support has enabled the College of Engineering to provide a first-rate education for UI students, top-notch research that helps shape the varied disciplines of engineering, and crucial service to the state of Iowa. Here are just a few examples of how gifts have helped the college fulfill its mission:

• Allen S. Henry created the Allen Henry Chair in Engineering to support a faculty member who directs a distinguished academic and research program in the college. The chair is currently held by Professor Jerald Schnoor. Henry received his master's and doctoral degrees in mechanics and hydraulics from the UI in 1968 and 1971, respectively. Endowed faculty positions such as this help attract and retain top scholars and help leverage funding from other external sources such as foundations and government agencies.
• A $150,000 gift from the Caterpillar Foundation of Peoria, Illinois, will support student scholarships, a peer mentoring program in the UI's Women in Science and Engineering program, a guest seminar series, facilities, and acquisition of multimedia instructional equipment. The gift created the Caterpillar Engineering Scholarships and the Caterpillar Engineering Colloquium series. A classroom in the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences is named in honor of the Caterpillar Foundation.
• The facility that many expect to become the world's most comprehensive river research station is named in honor of its chief benefactor: the Lucille A. Carver River Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station. The structure, located near Muscatine, Iowa, is being made possible in large part by a $1.2 million gift from the Muscatine-based Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. The facility will house the Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station, operated by the UI College of Engineering's IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering unit, and will be the world's only university-affiliated river research station of its type.

These are just several examples of the generosity that has helped the College of Engineering earn its place among the top 25 percent of graduate and undergraduate engineering programs in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report.

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