April 25, 2007

Alumnus Kenneth D. Franklin Establishes Engineering Endowment

Alumnus Kenneth D. Franklin (BSIE ’71) of Cumming, Ga., has endowed a gift of $50,000 to the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. Franklin’s gift will establish the Kenneth D. and Wanda B. Franklin Scholarship Endowment.

The endowment will provide annual awards to the winners of the Alpha Pi Mu/Kenneth D. Franklin Outstanding Sophomore Award (formerly known as the Alpha Pi Mu Outstanding Sophomore Award) in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), as well as provide future scholarships for undergraduate students enrolled in the same department.

Franklin was the first recipient of the Alpha Pi Mu Outstanding Sophomore Award in 1969. An ISE student received the renamed Alpha Pi Mu/Kenneth D. Franklin Outstanding Sophomore Award at the Anderson Awards Luncheon on April 5.

Dean Louis A. Martin-Vega said of the gift, “We greatly appreciate the support the Franklin family has shown the College of Engineering. Their generous commitment is an investment in tomorrow’s engineers.”

The endowment will be administered by the NC State Engineering Foundation, Inc.

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