Far Above...
In late 2006, Cornell University launched the most ambitious campaign in its history. Far Above...The Campaign for Cornell will empower the university to lead and be a model for higher education in the 21st century and position the College of Engineering to support collaboration and discovery and to educate diverse and dynamic leaders who will change the world. The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the largest in the college, with 40 faculty members, 300 graduate students, more than 500 undergraduates, and 9,502 living alumni, has a wonderful opportunity to preserve our signature strengths and move with confidence into new areas of innovation.
Unrestricted Giving
We direct these funds to a variety of needs and opportunities, including design projects, international undergraduate competitions, attracting and retaining faculty, and infrastructure enhancement. Your unrestricted support gives us the flexibility to take advantage of opportunities and meet unexpected needs as they arise.
ECE Priorities
Unrestricted Support
Unrestricted Annual Support will always be a priority for ECE. Gifts at any level are appreciated. These funds are used at the discretion of the Director. Please remember to fill ECE on the University's pledge card.
Fund for New Initiatives
In ECE, we must keep up to date with rapidly changing technologies by investing in new areas when they are identified. To make an impact in an emerging technological area ECE needs funding to attract and support new faculty members, to develop new courses, to renovate and equip new teaching and research laboratories, and to provide programmatic support.
Director's Discretionary Fund
The income from this named endowment fund would be used to support excellence in undergraduate engineering education. Areas funded with this endowment income include research initiatives, undergraduate student organizations (IEEE, HKN), facility improvement, and faculty recruitment and start-up.
Faculty Research
ECE needs the capacity to jump-start, seed, and nurture selected research areas such as computer engineering; information, systems, and networks; devices and electronics; and space science and plasma physics.
Professor Tony Reeves, who has dual appointments in ECE and the Department of Radiology at Weill Medical College, and his research group, provide a unique, public access database of documented medical images that are used for the development and validation of tools for computer aided diagnosis. Gifts ranging from $5,000 - $20,000 would provide a server and the necessary data storage.
Student Projects
$12,000 – Network Analyzer
Help purchase a network analyzer that examines the properties of electrical networks for digital circuit projects.
$10,000 - Rapid Prototype Milling Machine
Rapid prototype milling machine for PC boards route precision holes on circuit boards using computer control and are used in numerous design projects.
$8,000 – Isolated Internet in Lab
ECE students and faculty experiment with student-built network devices thus needing a private internet.
$10,000 – PB-503 Proto-Boards
Students taking Introduction to Digital Design look at the design and implementation of practical digital circuits. During the lab, they use proto boards to plug in components and learn design methodology.
$5,000 – Introduction to Circuits Lab Support
Students with a serious interest would be given a chance to build something basic of interest. Needs include: frequency generators, power supplies, simple scopes, multimeters, and need a stock of basic resistors, caps, audio chips, DSP chips, etc. Students of all class years would have access to basic test and design equipment to experiment with and learn more on their own initiative.
Making a Gift
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Contact
For more details please contact ECE's Alumni Affairs and Development Officer:
SooHee (Shannon) Ahn
Alumni Affairs and Development
256C Carpenter Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-1288
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Related Resources
Professor Alyssa Apsel and graduate student Mustansir Mukadam enjoy the new Bit Error Rate Tester, which was purchased in part by the generosity of Albert J. Eisenberg BEE '48.
“I choose to come to Cornell because not only was I interested in Cornell; the ECE faculty were also very interested in me. The faculty in my area actively recruited me to come to Cornell and made me feel like my talents would be put to good use.”
- Matthew Watkins, ECE MS/PhD Student
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