ALUMNI
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Funding Priorities
- Endowed Professorships $4 million each
Princeton has been extraordinarily successful in recruiting and retaining top engineering
faculty in recent years. In this time of very stiff competition among the nation's top
engineering schools, that success could be better sustained by Princeton's ability to
offer an endowed professorship to an accomplished senior teacher-scholar.
- Endowed Visiting Professorships $2 million each
These visiting professorships will include the Entrepreneurship Visiting Professorship,
the Executive in Residence, and the Engineer in Residence.
- Faculty Fellows $1.5 million each
To enable tenured faculty members to spend all, or part, of a year leading cutting-edge projects,
which because of their novelty are unlikely to receive funding from government or
corporate sources.
- Innovation in Engineering Education $500,000 each
Engineering and applied science courses require constant revision and updating as
technology changes rapidly. Endowment for course development provides funding for
faculty members engaged in the critical endeavor of developing and improving courses.
- Graduate Fellowships $250,000 each
Just as Princeton competes with other top institutions for the best engineering faculty, it
also competes with those same institutions for the top graduate students. Endowment for
graduate financial support provides tuition and stipends for students and ensures
Princeton's competitiveness in drawing the strongest graduate students to Engineering.
- Laboratory Endowment $150,000 each
Rapid advances in both hardware and software require perpetual upgrading and
replacement, as well as the re-education of technical staff. Endowment funds will permit
the systematic modernization of hardware and applications software and provide
continuing education for the technical staff.
- Faculty Research Support $100,000 term
Faculty "start-up" grants provide equipment and lab renovations to new faculty members who are
just beginning their careers when they accept a position at Princeton. These grants are
typically made on a one-time basis to support junior faculty members during their first and
second years. This allows new faculty to begin teaching and research without immediately
seeking grant support and is often an incentive in the recruitment of these young faculty members.
- Senior Thesis Research Funds $50,000 each
Many successful Engineering alumni consider the senior thesis or independent project the
"capstone" of their engineering education. A thesis endowment permits students to
follow their own research paths and to find answers to problems that they themselves
have posed. Funds are used for special equipment, software and to defray incidental
costs associated with thesis research.
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CONTACT
Jane Maggard
Associate Dean for Development
EQuad C221
609 258-6850
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