Posted on Jul 1, 1996

Thanks to support from the Dean's Engineering Council and leading engineering alumni, the College has renovated a laboratory for electrical engineering and computer science students to study complex design systems.

The project began when the National Science Foundation awarded the College a $148,750 grant in 1994, pending matching contributions of $122,075. Alumni came through with gifts and pledges totaling $122,368 to meet the challenge.

The lab has been outfitted with twelve Sun Spark “LX+” workstations, a Sparcserver 1000 file server, software, and peripherals. The lab will support research and training in the high-level design of concurrent systems; examples of student projects that will benefit include several autonomous walking robots, VLSI custom chip fabrications, and a video tracking system.

Donors who contributed to the NSF challenge include:


$10,000 or more

Malcolm D. Horton '45
Frederick D. Hay '66
Roland W. Schmitt '85H
Walter V. Dixon, Jr. '69
Donald C. Loughry '52
Allan R. Page '69
Robert C. Sprong '50


$5,000

Robert G. Huntington '56
Hannay Reels
Richard M. Tyndall '44


$1,000 to $4,999

Robert Herbst '51
Donald Marshall '66
Dana W. Moore '59
Sun Microsystems
Dennis L. Deeb '82
Robert O'Hara '79G
Jerrier B. Halstead '84
Richard Kenyon, dean of engineering


$500 to $999

David G. Hannay, professor of computer science
Theodore A. Bick '58, professor of mathematics
Fred B. Brand '42


$100 to $499

J. Michael Smiles, director, capital gifts
John Spinelli, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science
Cherrice Traver, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science
George H. Williams '64, co-chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
David Hemmendinger, associate professor of computer science


$25 to $99

Keith F. Donahue '87
John J. Kaehler '82
Kitty M. Kaehler '83
Richard E. Palmer '61
Craig Petreikis '89
Julian R. Potts '54