Never before has the Department of Civil Engineering had the opportunity to establish an unrestricted endowment. The creation of the CE Centennial Endowment will provide the department with the most enduring source of financial security, as it provides the department maximum flexibility to use the income from the endowment where it is needed most. Gifts made to this endowment are invested as principal, and from this investment, distributions are made annually to support the department and its many programs. Annual funding from the CE Centennial Endowment would support, but not be limited to:

• Undergraduate Scholarships
• Graduate Fellowships
• Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development
• Student Organization Activities
• Department Initiatives

• Established Faculty Endowments ~ open gift size
  Over the years, generous alumni, friends and faculty members themselves, have established named Faculty Endowments to perpetuate their legacy of excellence for future generations. Distributions from these endowments, similar to the CE Centennial Endowment, are typically used to support and sponsor excellence within the department, or the faculty member’s academic area. You may chose to designate your gift to one or more of the following established funds in honor of:

Jack Breen, established 1986
Phil Ferguson, established 1980
John A. Focht, estaboished 1982
Earnest F. Gloyna, established 1985
Ron Hudson, established 2003
Clyde Lee, established 1995
Hudson Matlock, established 2001
Walter L. Moore, established 1988
Carl Morgan, established 2004
Roy Olson, established 2003
Lymon Reese, established 1999
Richard Tucker, established 2003

• Undergraduate Scholarship ~ From $25,000
• Endowed Presidential Scholarship ~ From $50,000
• Endowed Graduate Fellowship ~ From $100,000
• Endowed Faculty Fellowship ~ From $300,000
• Endowed Professorship ~ From $500,000
• Endowed Faculty Chair ~ From $2,000,000
• Naming of the CE Department ~ $25,000,000

  All named endowments may be set up to recognize the donor or a designee.

  For more information on a named endowment, please visit:
  www.engr.utexas.edu/alumni/areas

  

3) PROGRAM SUPPORT Goal: $2,000,000
The Department of Civil Engineering boasts a number of programs whose breadth allows for comprehensive research across the field and a first rate education. Accomplishing this task requires modern facilities and state-of-the-art equipment. To help us achieve our goal of providing the best possible education to our students, donors may direct their gift to one of the following program areas:

Structural Engineering
Structural Engineering encompasses education and research in wide-ranging areas of great importance to the built environment and human welfare: structural behavior, construction materials, structural reliability, offshore structures, harnessing of non-conventional energy resources, and computational mechanics. Experimental activities are spearheaded by the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, which is dedicated to large-scale studies of structural behavior, and the Construction Materials Research Group. To respond to the evolving challenges of the 21st century, the Structural Engineering Program is expanding its experimental facilities to provide new capabilities for studying both improved durability of the civil infrastructure and structural response under combined multiple hazards, such as fire and blast or impact loads. New designs, new materials, and new computational and analysis procedures are needed to meet the engineering challenges that lie ahead. Funds designated to the Structural Engineering Program will allow our Program to maintain and enhance its leadership position in shaping the future of structural engineering.

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE)
EWRE is the primary leader in environmental and water resources research at UT Austin, carrying out advanced research, education, design, and planning in water resources, treatment processes, and waste management for Texas, the U.S., and the world. Gifts designated to EWRE will count toward a matching gift drive to attain environmental and analytical instrumentation. A seed gift of $500,000 will be used to match donor’s gifts 1:1, thereby doubling the value of an individual gift. The raised funds will greatly enhance our students’ opportunities to study emerging environmental problems and seek advances in the areas of complex environmental systems, sustainability, and practical applications of molecular sciences. State-of-the-art instrumentation is the key to producing cutting-edge solutions to these environmental challenges that both protect the environment and sustain industrial productivity.

Geotechnical Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering at UT Austin is an internationally-recognized leader in producing graduates and conducting research in all aspects of the discipline ranging from foundations to slopes to waste containment systems. UT Austin has a strong tradition of providing a well-balanced graduate program involving experimental, numerical, and field studies. A critical challenge today is the maintenance of modern, integrated geotechnical and geo-environmental experimental laboratories. Gifts designated to Geotechnical Engineering will be used to support state-of-the-art laboratory instrumentation - a key element in continuing the strong tradition of our program.

Transportation Engineering
Transportation Engineering covers the full spectrum of activities pertaining to the analysis, planning, design, construction, operation, and management of integrated transportation systems. The program combines a long tradition of innovation in highway and traffic engineering with a cutting-edge research and academic effort in the rapidly evolving transportation systems area. Gifts designated to Transportation Engineering will be used to enhance our facilities and strengthen our leadership in transportation education and research.

Construction Engineering and Project Management (CEPM)
In the last decade, UT’s CEPM has become one of the top programs in the U.S., thanks to the leadership of Richard Tucker and the establishment of the Construction Industry Institute. Focus areas for the program include knowledge management, construction project delivery strategies and vbalue concepts, green design and environmental sustainability, integrated and automated project processes, human resource management systems and construction methods automation. Gifts designated to CEPM will be used to improve facilities and to expand the educational opportunities available to our students.

Architectural Engineering
Architectural Engineering focuses on integrating the many component disciplines necessary for successful building construction and operation. Longstanding strengths in structural engineering and construction engineering and project management are being supplemented with increased emphasis on building environmental systems and integrated project design. Gifts designated to Architectural Engineering will be used to improve teaching and research facilities in building environmental systems and computer-aided design.

Donors may also participate in the CE Centennial Campaign through the Friends of Alec Annual Giving Program. Donated funds that are designated to Civil Engineering will be counted toward the CE Centennial Campaign. Friends of Alec funds support both ongoing programs and special initiatives that promote excellence within the department. These funds will be used in the following ways:

• Upgrade our classrooms and laboratories to provide the best learning environments possible
• Support outstanding students through scholarship funding
• Support engineering student organization activities
• Provide resources for enhanced alumni relations programming and outreach
• Recruit outstanding students and faculty to the department