How can you support students?
Undergraduate Scholarships in ChBE ~ from $25,000 (endowed)
The undergraduate program in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) at Georgia Tech is one of the largest in the U.S. and supplies eager, highly-skilled engineers to the work force. We must continue to attract the best students to chemical engineering, widely considered one of the most challenging academic disciplines. The School needs funding for undergraduate scholarships. Need-based and merit-based scholarships give the best and brightest of these students an opportunity to excel.
President's Scholarship ~ from $25,000 (endowed) Funding a named President's Scholarship for a ChBE student will ensure that the best choose to attend Tech. Competition for these students is fierce, and Georgia Tech must be in the position to ensure that no qualified student is denied an education for lack of funds.
Graduate Fellowship ~ from $400,000 (endowed) Competition for exceptional chemical engineering graduate students is extremely tight. Graduate students are the lynchpin of this academic program: bringing the best graduate students to ChBE helps us attract outstanding faculty for whom they will work; those top-notch faculty then teach the undergraduates also. ChBE graduate students are tomorrow’s industrial and academic researchers as well as teachers, and fellowship funding ensures the best will be training here at Georgia Tech.
How can you support the whole program?
ChBE is constantly changing to stay at the forefront of our discipline. Private support gives Georgia Tech our competitive edge, and current operations gifts can be used soon after donation. Gifts and grants to ChBE for unrestricted use support core academic and programmatic needs as well as provide seed funds for emerging academic initiatives. Such discretionary funds can be given outright or by establishing an endowment from which income supports the School’s leadership in addressing needs. A named endowment fund begins at $25,000. Georgia Tech encourages unrestricted endowments in ChBE to provide maximum flexibility to meet pressing needs and to provide support for new initiatives.
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.
Main Auditorium in home of ChBE ~ $1,500,000
The home of the School of ChBE is the Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building, the largest academic building ever constructed by the University System of Georgia. The largest room in the ES&T is the main auditorium where ChBE: teaches classes daily; hosts companies for AIChE student chapter meetings and visiting scholars for seminars weekly; gathers undergrad and graduate students for mentoring in the ExxonMobil Success Program bi-monthly; and twice yearly welcomes outstanding lecturers for named symposia. The 118-seat auditorium has the latest electronic equipment to facilitate audience interaction with presenters as well as to allow for distance learning and recording of all presentations. This is the center of student and faculty learning in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering as well as the public space where ChBE welcomes the rest of Tech for broader conversations. Your gift would be for an endowment with income expendable by the Chair to meet the School’s most pressing needs.
Main Lobby in home of ChBE
~ $750,000
The main welcoming point for the School is the lobby located just off the Gossage Atrium in the Ford ES&T Building. Students, faculty, and guests come here to visit the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies and the Undergraduate Advisor, and to access the School Chair's Suite. The name of the School hangs in polished metal letters over desk space for two office professionals; two seating areas complete the space which is watched over by School founder and Tech's first Dean, William Henry Emerson, from a portrait.
How can you support research?
Undergraduate Research Program ~ One of the School Chair's top priorities is to increase the number of undergraduate students who are able to participate in laboratory research with graduate mentors and faculty advisors.
Endowed Faculty Chair ~ from $1,500,000
An Endowed Faculty Chair is designed to provide resources to scholars of eminent stature to head teaching and research in specialized areas within the School. Senior faculty 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.
Endowed Professorship ~ from $750,000
Income from these named endowments will be used to support outstanding faculty in ChBE. These Professorships will ensure that scholars who have already made their mark in the discipline possess the resources to remain at the forefront of their fields, while leading teaching and research efforts in areas important to the future of chemical & biomolecular engineering. The funding will be used to seed research projects, as well as for travel, equipment, and student research assistants.
Endowed Faculty Award ~ from $500,000
These awards are given to the most promising young ChBE 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.
Why now?
Now is the time to build on great momentum in the School. Help us prepare the bright students coming to ChBE for the challenges of the future.
How your gift to ChBE helps students:
• Merit and need-based undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships ensure that no qualified student misses out on a Georgia Tech education.
• Sponsoring a class allows students to experience the breadth of the curriculum, and sparks their imagination.
• With financial incentives ChBE can attract the best academics and teachers who are excited about Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and they in turn teach undergraduates.
How your gift to ChBE helps your community:
Our engineers contribute to key industries that affect everyone’s quality of life today, as well as the world of tomorrow. Georgia Tech alumni, faculty, and students have a hand in the ingredients and finished products that lead to a cleaner environment, efficient and alternative fuels, breakthrough medical technologies, user-friendly microelectronics, a more healthful food supply, and safe household and personal products (like cosmetics and cleaners) for you and your family.
Recognition for gifts:
It is important to ChBE that current students know who is investing in and supporting them. Several recognition opportunities are available.
Ways to Give:
Gifts to the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering may be in the form of cash, securities, real estate, or personal property. Many individuals have contributed using planned gifts, including, but not limited to: charitable remainder trusts, lead trusts, and gift annuities; the pooled income fund; bequest provisions; and life insurance. These are all excellent ways to benefit Georgia Tech and ChBE while fulfilling philanthropic goals and possibly achieving some financial planning or tax benefits.