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The Campaign for Engineering Quarterly Report - January 2016

Together, Toward a Boundless Future

Follow our fundraising progress throughout the Campaign for Engineering.

Issue 1 | January 2016

From the Dean

Mike Bragg photo

Happy New Year! As the campaign for the College of Engineering draws closer to its public launch in October, we want to keep you, our volunteers, apprised of our progress on a regular basis. Our quarterly newsletter will feature inspiring insights from our donors and stories from the faculty and students whose work demonstrates the impact of private support—as well as updates on our campaign progress and information about our ten departments.

In this, our first issue, I'd like to acknowledge our College of Engineering Visiting Committee members for agreeing to serve as our Campaign Committee. I look forward to partnering with you as the campaign progresses.

As one of the nation's top-25 engineering schools, we are poised to have a remarkable impact on the grand challenges of our time. Engineering innovations will drive economic prosperity, empower us to live longer, healthier lives, and help solve some of society’s most pressing problems. With your help, this campaign will accelerate and magnify that impact. Thank you for your support.

Mike Bragg, Ph.D.
Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of Engineering

Giving Spotlight: Al and Pat DeAtley

Al and Pat DeAtley in front of Suzzallo Library

Albert DeAtley, Jr. (Al), retired chairman and owner of Superior Asphalt and Paving, and his wife Patricia DeAtley are among the UW’s most generous donors, and have recently made a $4 million planned gift to the College of Engineering. They are Presidential Laureates and Henry Suzzallo Society members, and Al—who studied civil engineering at the UW in the early 1950s—was inducted into the UW Construction Hall of Fame in 2000 and received a College of Engineering Diamond Award for Distinguished Service in 2006. Dedicated philanthropists who host many charity functions at their Yakima home, Al and Pat have as their motto non nobis solum ("not for us alone").

"The construction industry was awfully good to Patty and me, and the best way to give it back was in the form of education. Our society is getting more and more sophisticated, so the future of mankind depends on higher education, and universities have been the big creditors of our charity work. When we were younger, we did most of our UW giving in the athletic arena; when we got older, we took another look at the College of Engineering. We're short of engineers in the United States, and my wife and I consider this a problem. We felt that engineering education was an important priority for our giving, and made a firm commitment in our estate planning." —Al DeAtley

 

Department Fast Facts: William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics

A&A students pose with model airplane at test site
ESTABLISHED:
1929 (offering instructional classes in aeronautics as early as 1918)

The UW offers the only aerospace degree program in the Pacific Northwest, a region that is home to the highest density of space and aerospace and aeronautics companies in the nation, and that has been a major contributor to the technological development, economic vitality and security of the U.S. Our faculty, students and alumni are creating the future of automated aerospace manufacturing, novel aerospace materials and autonomous aerospace systems.
CHAIR:
Anthony Waas, Boeing-Egtvedt Chair, Professor of Aerostructures
QUICK HISTORY:
  • UW A&A is one of seven departments in the country originally established with the help of the Guggenheim Fund for the Advancement of Aeronautics.
  • The department manages two wind tunnels: the Boeing Wind Tunnel (now the Aerodynamics Laboratory (ADL)), built in 1917, and the Kirsten Wind Tunnel, built in 1936. Both wind tunnels remain integral to our students’ education and faculty research, and provide an important service to external clients.
  • "Astronautics" was added to department name in 1961.

 

By the Numbers

Fundraising progress as of January 12, 2016.

fundraising progress thermometer showing 54% to goal at $200 million
Theme Campaign 3 Working Goal Raised to Date Percent to Goal
Student Support $50M $27M 54%
Faculty Support & Research $145M $101M 70%
Program Support for Faculty & Students $55M $35M 64%
Capital $80M $14M 18%
Excellence (Other) $20M $12M 60%
TOTAL $350M $189M 54%

 

Transforming the Student Experience

student with formula car in front of Guggenheim Hall

Andrei Arevalo, ME ‘16
Recipient of the 2015-2016 Karsten & Louise Solheim Endowed Scholarship

"For the past three years I have participated on the UW’s Formula Motorsports Team, a group of 70 engineering students who design, build and compete a formula-style race car each year. This past year, I served as the administrative director, in charge of the sponsorship, resource management, finance and public relation teams. Scholarships have allowed me to be more involved with the team than I’d have been able to without funding, and the decision to attend the UW would have been much harder without support! I am very honored and blessed." —Andrei Arevalo