1996

December 3, 1996

C.E. Vick Jr. Endows Caldwell Scholarship

C.E. "Ed" Vick Jr., chairman of Kimley-Horn & Associates of Cary, has pledged $60,000 to endow the C.E. Vick/Caldwell Scholarship, bringing the total Vick/Caldwell Scholarship endowment to $100,000. The gift, which will support students in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, was established in honor of Vick's father, C.E. Vick Sr.

An alumnus of NC State, Vick is chairman of the advocacy committee of the North Carolina Engineering Foundation. He has previously served as the foundation's president and vice president. Vick earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from NC State in 1956 and 1960, respectively.

The John T. Caldwell Alumni Scholarships are the university's most prestigious university-wide scholarships. They are awarded on the basis of leadership, scholarship, citizenship and potential for academic success. The scholarships honor the late Dr. John T. Caldwell, who served as chancellor of the university from 1959 to 1975.

November 20, 1996

Full Scholarship Endowed for Engineering

Dr. E. James Angelo Jr. and his brother, William E. Angelo, have established the Ernest James and Ethel Hudgins Angelo Memorial Scholarship in memory of their late parents. The scholarship will support students enrolled in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University.

James Angelo, a 1939 electrical engineering graduate of NC State, and William Angelo, a 1942 chemical engineering graduate of NC State, were raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and attended Reynolds High School.

In an effort to give back to the community of their youth, they have specified that the scholarship be awarded to students from Forsyth County, North Carolina. The scholarship, which will provide full tuition, fees, room and board for one year beginning in 1997, will be the single largest merit scholarship awarded at NC State. Additional comparable awards will be available from the Angelos in the future as their support continues.

Scholarship recipients must demonstrate an interest in the environment and pursue an appropriate course of study within the College of Engineering that will give them the opportunity to pursue a position with a company or agency that works to protect the environment. The recipients will be chosen by a committee within the College of Engineering. The endowment will be held by the college in the North Carolina Engineering Foundation Inc. Chancellor Larry K. Monteith said of the scholarship, "This commitment by the Angelo brothers is an investment in tomorrow's environmental leaders. This scholarship will allow the College of Engineering at NC State to continue to attract top scholars."

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November 1, 1996

Exxon Provides Special Grant Money to the College of Engineering

As part of a program to provide universities with extra funding for special programs and equipment, Exxon USA is contributing $9,000 in grants to the North Carolina State College of Engineering. The College can use the grants for any educational purpose.

Exxon makes grants to schools that offer degrees in educational fields from which the Company recruits future employees and that produce the type of well qualified graduates Exxon needs. The Departmental Grants Program represents only part of Exxon Corporation's overall support of education which last year totaled $23 million.

October 4, 1996

Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Nino Masnari, accepts a check for $10,000 donated by BASF from Mr. Gary Gibson, manager of mechanical design at BASF. The generous annual gift will be divided equally between the Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments to be used at their discretion.

August 16, 1996

Hoechst Celanese Gives $325,000 for Renovations at NC State

NC State chemical engineering alumnus Russ O'Dell (right) presents a check from Hoechst Celanese and fellow alumni who work for the corporation to Dr. Ruben Carbonell (center), head of the Chemical Engineering Department at NC State. Joining them is Dr. William Isler Special Assistant to the Dean of Engineering.

A combination of corporate and employee gifts from the Hoechst Celanese Corporation is expected to provide $325,000 to the North Carolina State University College of Engineering towards renovation of Riddick Laboratories.

Russ O'Dell, manager of the technology division at Hoechst Celanese in Charlotte and an NC State chemical engineering alumnus, made the first installment on the gift to Dr. Ruben Carbonell, head of the Chemical Engineering Department, at a recent NC State Foundation luncheon.

The gift will consist of funds from Hoechst Celanese as well as NC State chemical engineering alumni who work for the corporation and is the largest pledged so far in the Riddick Laboratories fund drive, which aims to raise $3 million to improve analytical facilities, add computers and telecommunications equipment to classrooms, and renovate conference rooms, lecture halls and laboratories.

"This gift will take us approximately half way to reaching our first goal: to renovate the Unit Operations Laboratory," said Carbonell. "We hope this extremely generous gift will encourage other companies that have had long-term recruiting and research relationships with the Chemical Engineering Department at NC State to make similar contributions so that we can reach our goal."

The Unit Operations Laboratory gives undergraduate students hands-on experience running equipment commonly used in industrial chemical plants. The gift will be used to add a mezzanine that will serve as a computer laboratory, introduce air conditioning, and purchase and install laboratory benches on the ground floor.

In recognition of the gift, the university will rename the Unit Operations Laboratory in Riddick the Hoechst Celanese Laboratory.

The fund drive, which was begun in 1995 by the Chemical Engineering Department and the Chemical Engineering Alumni Industrial Advisory Board, will operate for the next five years to celebrate both the building's 50th anniversary and the department's 75th anniversary in the year 2000.

June 4, 1996

Cave Scholarship Endowment Established

June 3, 1996

IBM Grants $1 Million in Hardware

Pictured left to right: Dr. Jerry Whitten, dean of PAMS; Don Haile, director of Network Systems Division, IBM, RTP; Dr. Phillip Stiles, provost; Dr. John G. Gilligan, interim dean of COE.

IBM, through its Shared University Research Program, has granted up to $1 million in hardware products to the College of Engineering and the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences to help the university complete work on a high-speed, campus-wide computer network. The network also allows NC State to link to the North Carolina Information Highway, which connects state secondary schools, other universities and research institutions. The two colleges will use the grant to purchase IBM computer hardware to help complete work begun two years ago on a network based on asynchronous transfer mode technology--an important new communications technology that allows computers to send and receive multimedia information quickly and efficiently across a network. IBM presented similar grants to NC State in 1994 and 1995.

May 24, 1996

Cadence Gift to Electrical and Computer Engineering to Promote Graduate Education

Pictured left to right: Michael B. Steer, professor of electrical engineering; Paul D. Franzon, associate professor of computer engineering; Mark Basel, Cadence; Joseph D. Mastroianni, Cadence.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., has presented an unrestricted gift of $60,000 to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University to support research in deep submicron interconnect modeling for advanced computer chips, with an emphasis on graduate education. The department was presented a check for $30,000 and will receive the remainder of the gift in December.

Cadence, based in San Jose, Calif., is the world's largest electronic CAD company with approximately 3,000 employees worldwide. To tap the resources of the Triangle area's universities and engineering professionals, Cadence opened an office in Cary earlier this year.

Officials from the Cary office presented the gift to Dr. Paul D. Franzon, associate professor of computer engineering, and Dr. Michael B. Steer, professor of electrical engineering.

Joseph D. Mastroianni, group director, Verification, IC Design Group, said the company employs approximately 800 people in research and development worldwide and anticipates adding 200 more in that area in the next few years. He indicated that the gift is an investment in the future for the company because it hopes to hire NC State graduates as part of the research and development surge.

According to Steer, courses at NC State currently incorporate Cadence products to give students an advantage by offering a "real-world education." The gift from Cadence will help to further that effort.