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Brooks endowment creates student-athlete scholarship
NC State engineering alumnus Robert Lee Brooks has established a scholarship endowment for student-athletes majoring in engineering.
Recipients of funds from the Robert Lee Brooks Scholar/Athlete Endowment will be athletes in revenue producing sports: football, baseball and men’s and women’s basketball. Brooks made two gifts totaling $100,000 to establish the scholarship.
Brooks, who graduated from NC State in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering operations, is executive vice president at LS Power Development, LLC, a privately held company with offices in several states that develops, acquires and manages power generation and transmission infrastructure throughout the U.S. He previously held various engineering and management positions of increasing responsibility in the operations, project management, sales and marketing functions within the power generation business unit of Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Brooks’ brother and daughter are also graduates of the College. He has previously endowed two football scholarships through the Wolfpack Club.
Boeing donation supports student activities, scholarships
The Boeing Company has donated $45,000 to the College of Engineering at NC State to support summer enrichment activities, an aerospace engineering design program and scholarships for engineering students.
Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, has made numerous gifts to the College over the years in support of scholarships, summer programs and student organizations.
The gift will be allocated among several programs, including an aerospace engineering summer camp, the Minority Engineering Programs’ summer transition program, the aerospace engineering senior design program and merit scholarships.
Alumni appreciation
The College thanks all of the alumni who participated in various events and activities over the past several months.
Your help with E-Week, following up with recently accepted students and other efforts help build momentum around the NC State engineering community.
Again, many thanks for all you do for the College.