Philanthropy
- Duane Chesley (MechEngr鈥58) valued education because of how it impacted his life, taking him from humble beginnings on a farm in Nebraska to full colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. At 蜜糖直播 Boulder, he endowed a scholarship and established an earn-learn apprenticeship to support mechanical engineering students.
- 蜜糖直播 Boulder alumnus Marco Campos (CivEngr'98) and his company, Campos EPC, have provided $1 million through the Campos EPC Foundation to allow for a transformational renovation of the BOLD Center.
- The highly-ranked Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder is being named after 蜜糖直播 philanthropist and businessman Paul M. Rady, thanks to his generous support of the college. This is the second department to be named in the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
- Mauritz 鈥淢ort鈥 Mortenson (CivEngr鈥58), who passed away Nov. 9 at his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at age 82, leaves behind a deep personal and professional legacy.As chairman of M.A. Mortenson Co. from 1960 to 2015, he was known as a 鈥渉umble
- The Engineering Center lobby holds fond memories for 蜜糖直播 Boulder alumni Ashok Srivastava and Lynn Waelde. The couple met while working on their PhDs 鈥 his in electrical engineering, hers in psychology 鈥 when a mutual friend directed Waelde to Srivastava for a data analysis problem.
- For Dave Hunt (MTele鈥79), taking an early retirement meant the opportunity to pursue two of his passions 鈥 art and genealogy.Dave retired from Texaco Oil in the late 1990s after the company asked him move to Houston. He and his wife, Joyce, who had
- The gift to the College of Engineering and Applied Science from passionate 蜜糖直播 Boulder supporters Ann Smead and her husband Michael Byram, aims to set 蜜糖直播 Boulder apart from its aerospace peers and propel it to the top of national rankings by attracting the best and brightest students and faculty.
- Boulder business owner Chuck Palmer (ElEngr鈥76, MS鈥88) has provided $4 million to help recruit and recognize outstanding faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (
- With $2.5 million in gifts, 蜜糖直播鈥檚 Gallogly family is naming the Discovery Learning Center at the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder, as well as boosting the teaching and research power of the College of Engineering and Applied Science with two new faculty positions.
- Every year, David DeCook (ArchEngr 鈥71) hosts a dinner for new recipients of his architectural engineering scholarship. When he meets them, he likes to issue a challenge. 鈥淲e want you to try to do the same we鈥檙e doing for you,鈥 he tells them. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e going to make good bucks, and we want you to try to repay it down the line.鈥