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Shelco endowment benefits students
Shelco gave $22,500 to renovate the student lounge in Mann Hall, the home of the department.
Shelco, Inc., and its employees have made two gifts totaling $47,500 to support the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering.
The Raleigh-based construction company and its employees donated $25,000 to establish the Shelco Student Experience Fund to fund student travel to construction sites and other related student activities. The company also gave $22,500 to renovate the student lounge in Mann Hall, the home of the department.
Shelco has a long relationship with the College. The company’s president, D. Edwin Rose, graduated from NC State in 1982 with a B.S. in civil engineering, and the company employs many NC State engineering graduates. Executive Vice President Barry Gardner sits on the CCEE Advisory Board, and Executive Vice President Dan Perry sits on the CCEE Development Committee. Both are CCEE alumni.
The company has also been chosen to build the Centennial Science Center,
which will house the FREEDM Systems Center on Centennial Campus. The
72,000-square-foot building should be completed in the summer of 2010. 
McDonald-York executives establish construction engineering endowment
Executives of the Raleigh-based general contractor McDonald-York, Inc., have finished plans to install a $150,000 endowment to aid students in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE).
The McDonald-York Construction Innovation Initiative will fund course lectures, enhance senior capstone projects, bring distinguished speakers to a seminar series and provide additional offsite experiences for students in the Construction Engineering and Management Program.
The fund was established by John M. McDonald, president and CEO of McDonald-York, and G. Smedes York, the company’s chairman who earned his B.S. in civil engineering at NC State in 1963. Both executives sit on the CCEE advisory board.