About the Foundation
The NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc. (NCSEF) works with alumni, friends, corporations and foundations to secure support that is vital for the continued improvement of the College of Engineering. Gifts support scholarships, fellowships, professorships, academic programs, faculty research, and other initiatives that are not typically supported through state appropriations.
FROM THE FOUNDATION BOARD PRESIDENT
Ed White
In my role as president of the NC State Engineering Foundation, I am fortunate enough to come into frequent contact with the bright young engineers and computer scientists our College prepares and the research faculty who develop innovative solutions to many of our world’s most pressing challenges. The work that gets done here consistently amazes and inspires me!
Sustaining this high degree of excellence depends on the continuing support of alumni and friends like you and from our close corporate partners. Our Engineering Foundation builds relationships with key constituencies and secures private financial support that will propel the College toward the shared goals we have for it. Today, when all public institutions of higher education face escalating budgetary uncertainty, our support for the College is more vital than ever to its continuing improvement.
Your commitment has a direct impact on the ability of our faculty and students to fulfill their own dreams and to achieve at the highest levels. In the just concluded fiscal year of 2009, for instance, the Foundation worked with alumni, friends, corporations and foundations to provide more than $1.3 million in scholarship support. That represents nearly 700 undergraduate students whose lives have been forever affected for the better.
We are indeed thankful for such a high degree of impact. But when all of us who have such strong affinity for the College consider the support that is extended by some of our peer institutions, schools with whom we compete for the best and brightest, we must commit to do more. Our goal as a Foundation, marching lockstep with a College that continues to grow at a tremendous clip, must always be to build on current levels of support so that we can attract truly exceptional students and faculty to NC State -Engineering and reinforce their work.
So, please take a moment to be proud, as I am, that you are a part of one of the nation’s premier colleges of engineering, an institution that is well known the world over for doing the important educational, outreach and research work that society demands of engineering. I hope that you will also consider supporting the College and help drive it to fulfill the bold vision that Dean Louis Martin-Vega has set.
Ed White, B.S. EO ’78, is President of the NC State Engineering Foundation Board of Directors