The School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, although well positioned for the coming years, will always have many unfilled financial needs. For the sake of our outstanding students and our exceptional faculty, we must continue to identify initiatives that will propel the School to unprecedented levels. Included in this overview are the most critical needs we as a School community face in the coming years.

Endowed Faculty
Support

School Chair ~ $2,500,000
The most prestigious
of all the Endowed Chairs, the School Chair's Chair is dedicated to the leadership of the School and will enhance the School's ability to attract and retain first-rate educators in the position of academic administration. Competition for outstanding academic leaders is strong among the top programs. Incentives such as this named Chair
will greatly benefit both the department and the institute.

Faculty Chair ~ $1,500,000
Designed to provide resources to scholars of eminent stature to head teaching and research in targeted frontier areas of chemical engineering. Research interests will include both traditional (kinetics, catalysis, reaction engineering; transport phenomena; separation and purification processes; thermodynamics) and new areas of chemical engineering (advanced materials, biomedical and bioprocess engineering, electrochemical engineering and microelectronics processing, environmental engineering, process design, modeling and control and the pulp and paper processes). The chair holders will draw outstanding students to the program, stimulate innovative research, serve as mentors for younger faculty and aggressively seek leveraged funding from government and industrial sources. Endowed chairs may be named to recognize their donors or a designee.

Professorship ~ $750,000
Income from these named endowments will be used to support outstanding faculty in ChE. These Professorships will ensure that such individuals, who have already made their mark in the field, possess the resources to remain at the forefront of their fields, and lead teaching and research efforts in areas important to the future of chemical engineering. The funding will be used to seed research projects, and for travel, equipment, student research assistants, and secretarial support, all consistent with the overall needs of the School.

Junior Faculty Award ~ $500,000
These awards are given to the most promising junior faculty members and provide a major incentive in attracting and retaining those faculty who are tomorrow's leading teachers/scholars. Grants are awarded for five years, providing support to encourage innovation in teaching and research, thereby nurturing professional advancement during the critical pre-tenure years. Endowed Faculty Awards may be named to recognize their donors or a designee.

Visiting Professorship ~ $500,000
This endowment will be used to support a temporary appointment of an eminent scholar in a field important to the practice of chemical engineering. While at Georgia Tech, the holder of this named professorship will present a series of lectures based on his or her area of expertise, work with undergraduate and graduate students, and interact with the faculty of the School. This activity will expose students and faculty to new areas and stimulate research and other scholarly programs.


Student Support

Graduate Fellowships ~ $400,000
There is intense competition for those students whose presence elevates our program to its internationally acclaimed status. Financial incentives are often the difference in persuading outstanding students to attend graduate school in
a high-demand discipline such as Chemical Engineering. To attract the best and brightest students to the School, an endowment is necessary to provide them with additional funding. Including tuition and fees, present stipends for outstanding graduate students are approximately $25,000 per student year. With this financial incentive, we will be able to attract exceptional students based on academic performance and leadership potential. (Named annual fellowships are available at $25,000 annually.)

President's Scholarship ~ from $25,000
Quality students are measured by more than just SAT scores. Georgia Tech places a premium on attracting students with the character, determination, and intelligence necessary to meet the demands of a first-rate technological education and use that education to improve the world around them. To recruit most promising students to Chemical Engineering, we must compete against universities that offer considerably more financial support than Georgia Tech - even with Georgia's HOPE scholarship. Funding a named President's Scholarship is the best way to ensure that the best of the best are excited to attend Tech, and challenged by their education. Georgia Tech must be in the position to assure that no qualified student is denied an education.


Program Support

Undergraduate Research Program ~ $250,000
One of the School Chair's top priorities is to advance Chemical Engineering's Support undergraduate research initiatives. Undergraduate research in the lab is a critical component of the bachelors curriculum, as it provides not only hands-on experience with Chemical Engineering programs, but also introduces undergraduates to research and may encourage graduate study. The goal of this new initiative is to increase the number of students who are able to participate with graduate mentors and their faculty advisor. There are many costs associated with this initiative, including but not limited to, creating and maintaining lab space, stipend/scholarship awards for researching undergraduates, faculty allowances, and potential conference and travel fees. The naming of the unique initiative certifies commitment to education, and would expose hundreds of students to this incredibly valuable experience.

Seminar Series in Frontiers of Chemical Engineering ~ $250,000
Visiting lecturers provide an important stimulus to ongoing instructional and research activities. The Series, now in its 3rd year, occurs weekly and serves as the focus of discussions among students, faculty, and visiting professionals. The breadth of topics and personalities included in the Series provide an outstanding perspective for our students; they get a view of industrial practice and current research, and they have the opportunity to relate their current research to work presented by the visitors. This Seminar Series may be named to reflect the commitment of a donor or a corporation to the enhancement of engineering education.

London Summer Program
The School of Chemical Engineering offers students and faculty a unique opportunity to travel abroad to England to participate in a Summer Lab program at University College London (UCL). Chemical Engineering is proud of our established involvement with UCL, and are preparing for our 20th summer. ChE students participate in a five-week-long intensive course, centered on twelve chemical engineering laboratory experiments. Students complete these experiments over the summer and write appropriate reports. Each year 5 to 20 students, accompanied by a faculty advisor, attend this course in central London. The course also includes a one-week bus tour of industrial and cultural sites in Wales and Cardiff.

Named Program ~ $500,000
Annual Summer Aid ~ $25,000

Facility and Equipment Support

Ford Motor Company Environmental Science and Technology Building

Learning Center ~ $2,000,000

Entrepreneurship Center ~ $2,000,000

Undergraduate Research Laboratory ~ $1,250,000

Research Laboratories (18) ~ $250,000
(17 Available for Naming)

Computer-Assisted Design Center (2) ~ $250,000
(1 Available for Naming)

Seminar Rooms (2) ~ $125,000
(1 Available for Naming)

Classrooms (3) ~ $75,000
(2 Available for Naming)

Faculty Office Suite (35) ~ $25,000
(33 Available for Naming)

Equipment / Technology Support ~ From $25,000
Although the School of Chemical Engineering is still located in the Bunger Henry Building, it is important for us to ready ourselves for our departmental move in summer, 2002. Funding for equipment and technology is one of the most beneficial gifts to the School, as it allows us direct access to state-of-the-art machinery for our lab and classroom space. Unrestricted gifts to the School, designated for the support of computer and equipment upgrades, will be recognized with a plaque citing the generosity of the donor.