Giving Opportunities

• $3,000,000
  Giving to endow a position for a faculty member means recognizing a commitment to excellence in teaching and research in civil and environmental engineering. Such endowments allow us to sustain the school’s prominence amongst our peers.

• $3,000,000
  Professors of practice are distinguished and highly experienced individuals within the fields of civil and environmental engineering. These professionals provide effective, practice-oriented instruction in areas that supplement the core pedagogical instruction provided by our faculty. As our students transition to practice, the education they receive from these individuals is invaluable. A professor of practice is someone with at least a bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a related scientific or technical field.

• $2,000,000
  We enroll approximately 80 students each year into our master of engineering program, offering studies in eight concentrations. This position would manage the overall program and concentrations. Our M.Eng. program provides the leadership and technical skills needed for students to continue their education so as to be able to take on more demanding roles in industry. The program is a rigorous nine-month course of study that includes a required team project.

• $1,500,000
  A Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Fellowship increases our ability to attract talented students. Providing internal fellowships to our first-year Ph.D. students gives us a competitive edge for recruiting students against other top universities. Your support could impact a talented prospective graduate student’s decision to select Cornell Civil and Environmental Engineering for their graduate education.

• $1,500,000
  The ability to offer full fellowships adds to our recruitment efforts in attracting preeminent students to our Master of Engineering programs.

M.Eng. Civil and Environmental Engineering
The master of engineering program in civil and environmental engineering is aimed at engineers who wish to improve the depth and breadth of their technical abilities in the context of the engineering profession. They do this through additional course work and participation in a project that contains the elements of future engineering practice.

M.Eng. Engineering Management
The master of engineering program in engineering management is aimed at engineers who want to stay in a technical environment but focus on managerial roles. Students learn to identify problems, formulate and analyze models to understand these problems, and interpret and formulate the results of analyses for managerial action.

• $1,000,000
  This endowment will support our efforts to provide our students with well-equipped, safe working environments. Lab courses continue to provide students with first-hand engineering experience in our teaching labs supported by the shop. The teaching labs provide students with course concepts and an opportunity to study methods used by engineers in real life. The laboratory environment gives students the opportunity to investigate, analyze, and test concepts. The shop provides a learning environment where students can design and manufacture projects for course work and research.

This fund supports the future operation, upgrading of, and equipment for the Richard N. White Instructional Laboratory which is used as an instructional laboratory within the Bovay Laboratory Complex.

The late Professor Walter Lynn was internationally well-known for his application of systems analysis methods to wastewater treatment plant design and financing. Under Lynn’s direction Cornell’s leadership in Environmental and Water Resource Systems (EWRS) began. This fund provides financial support to students enrolled in the civil and environmental engineering M.Eng. Program.

The class of 1962 Fellowship fund was spear-headed by members in the class of 1962 to recognize excellence in teaching and help provide support.

Professor Donald P. Belcher was a world-known expert in air-photo interpretation, landform analysis, and remote sensing. Belcher taught in the School from 1947-1976. Students who knew Professor Belcher started this fund in 2000, when Professor Belcher was 89-years old, to honor him and his career.

Gerald Burns received a bachelors degree from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 1977. He was Managing Editor of Engineering News Record (ENR) at the time of his unforeseen death in September 1992. This fund was established in his memory.

The late Professor Emeritus Walter Lynn was internationally well known for his application of systems analysis methods to wastewater treatment plant design and financing. This award provides financial support to students enrolled in the M.Eng. in Civil and Environmental Engineering program.

The Larry Mains Class of 1924 Scholarship is awarded to a student chosen by the Director of Graduate Studies.

The Laurance Squire Scholarship fund was established in honor of Walter Laurance Squire, class of 1910.

William Mullestein ’32 was a varsity coxswain for the rowing team at Cornell. He had an outstanding career in leadership positions with Iron and Steel Institute in New York, and the construction division of the War Production Board in Washington D.C.. In 1944, he joined Lukens Steel Company, retiring from them in 1978 as Chairman and CEO.

The McGuire Master of Engineering Fellowship was started when Professor William “Bill” McGuire retired from a 40-year distinguished teaching career in civil engineering.

The Michael S. Rolband Masters of Engineering Fellowship was started in 2000 by alumnus Michael S. Rolband BS ’80, ME(C) ’81, MBA ’82, to “pay it forward” and help support the educational goals of future students to come. Rolband started his own company called Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. in 1991 and a predecessor firm in 1988.

Husband-and-wife team Leslie E. Robertson and SawTeen See BS ’77, M.Eng. ’78, co-founders of Leslie E. Robertson Associates (now LERA), headquartered in New York City, a structural engineering company.​

Roy H. Ritter graduated with a B.C.E. degree in 1930. His son, C. Willis Ritter, started this fellowship in honor of his father’s distinguished career as a civil engineer in public works engineering in Maryland and Virginia.

Please be sure to indicate your intention to designate your gift to Cornell Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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