The College has received a $148,750 grant from the National Science Foundation to create a workstation laboratory for faculty and students conducting research on the design and integration of computer microchip information.
The NSF grant requires the College to provide $122,000 in matching funds. To date, $79,537 of the matching fund has been donated, primarily through the efforts of the Dean's Engineering Council. Lead donors are Frederick D. Hay '66 ($16,000), Allan R Page '69 ($10,000), Walter V. Dixon '69 ($10,000), and Donald C. Loughry '52 ($10,000). Page, the council's vice chair, has led the fundraising effort.
The new laboratory will be devoted to faculty and student research in digital circuit
design, simulation, fabrication, and testing, and to the design, analysis, and simulation of computer network protocols
and distributed algorithms.