The Engineering Foundation

History

The Foundation was created in 1944 when Governor J. Melville Broughton brought together nearly 50 industrial and business leaders to form a nonprofit organization to promote and receive monies to support the NC State School of Engineering. The Foundation’s earliest success was to recruit Dr. J. Harold Lampe of Johns Hopkins University to be the new Dean of Engineering, a choice that forever transformed the College.

Funding Priorities

The College of Engineering has set an ambitious long-term goal: To become the top-ranked public college of engineering. Attracting and retaining the best and brightest people — faculty and students — is the primary catalyst to advance the core principles of our mission and achieve the Dean’s vision. The College depends on private support to build and sustain a highly productive and renowned faculty and to extend opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students. Building the College’s endowment is vital to gaining a competitive advantage and to riding out the ebb and flow of other types of funding. The Foundation works with alumni, friends and corporations to build the number of named professorships, fellowships and scholarships across the College.

Vision

We exist to enable NC State’s place as one of the nation’s premier public colleges of engineering.

Mission

We support the College of Engineering in acquiring and growing the financial resources necessary to achieve this through alumni engagement, public/private philanthropy and personal giving.

Values and Culture

We will honor those things which foster our affection for and loyalty to NC State and the College of Engineering.  We will conduct our board service in a collaborative manner which represents leading practice in a non-profit setting with a diverse membership, integrity, mutual trust, authenticity and determination to achieve a quantifiable benefit.