The document discusses the need for more engineering graduates in the US to address industry needs and challenges. It outlines how today's engineering graduates draw from multiple disciplines to solve complex problems and drive innovation in fields like engineering, medicine, business and public policy. The document then summarizes engineering fundraising priorities and highlights how engineering addresses societal challenges like energy, healthcare, transportation and national security. It provides examples of research areas at the university like biological engineering, materials science, environmental engineering and imaging technology that are making an impact.

1. Industry in the U.S., however, is facing a wave of retirements in the coming years, and
the number of U.S. students graduating with bachelor’s degrees in engineering is not
keeping pace with our needs. We must help fill the engineering gap with the best and
brightest graduates. These engineering graduates will collaborate across disciplines to
drive technology, advance communities, and sustain a world population more than
seven billion strong and growing at the rate of more than 200,000 people per day.
Today’s engineering graduates understand the connection between studying engineering
and benefiting society. They are innovative thinkers who draw from a convergence of
disciplines to solve problems in engineering fields, medicine, law, public policy, and
business. They create new products and enterprises that stimulate the economy and
help ensure an economically prosperous future. For students pursuing an engineering
education, the potential for developing new tools and approaches to existing and future
challenges has never been greater or more exciting.
“One of the great
skills I learned as an
engineer at Wash U
was how to be a part
of a team.”
Jim McKelvey, Jr., EN87
Co-Founder & Director, Square
School of Engineering & Applied Science
A Case for Support
Engineers are problem-solvers. They challenge convention. They design and build new products
and processes. They shape the future. They make the world a better place.
School of Engineering & Applied Science fundraising priorities:
• Supporting and attracting a talented and diverse student body
• Recruiting and retaining exceptional faculty
• Building and maintaining first-class facilities
• Supporting interdisciplinary programs and centers
• Enhancing excellence by increasing the annual fund

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Innovation serving society
Throughout history, engineers have driven some of the greatest
achievements of humankind. They have designed automobiles,
airplanes, and remotely operated vehicles; created household
devices like the refrigerator, pop-up toaster, and microwave
oven; invented the television, radio, and laser; developed
fiberglass, nylon, and synthetic skin; and given us computers
and the Internet.
Through the years, Washington University and its engineering
school have advanced knowledge in the service of society. In our
laboratories and classrooms, engineering students and faculty
leverage University strengths in medicine, the life and physical
sciences, engineering and international partnerships to seek
solutions to the challenges of our time. They collaborate across disciplines to:
• ensure affordable energy and address current and future energy demands while preserving the environment and
natural resources;
• team with physicians and scientists to research new frontiers in medicine and health, such as genome and imaging
sciences, medical devices, new drugs, and drug delivery methods;
• advance technology used in computers that control U.S.
transportation and financial systems, mobile devices and
applications, and security and military systems while
ensuring privacy and freedom at home and abroad.
These are challenges shared by the planet. They will require
an accelerated commitment to engineering education and
research to advance the quality of life for all.
To lead well, we must build a rich environment for
entrepreneurship and help put sound economic policies in
place. We must recognize the convergence of engineering
with fields across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences when we prepare our future engineers — the leaders
of tomorrow — for their critical roles in society. Only then can they continue to innovate, solve problems, produce new
industries, and drive economic growth in our complex society and world.
It is an exciting time in the engineering community. While opportunities are great, there is also a sense of concern and
urgency. Innovative partnerships with academia and industry — across disciplines and across the world — will ensure we are
poised to help solve the greatest challenges of this century.
“I find Washington University to
be a very supportive place for
entrepreneurship. Students these days
have an understanding of the pace and
consequence of innovation.”
Patrick Crowley, PhD
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
BME Senior Design Show

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Challenges and opportunities
The U.S. National Academy of Engineering, with guidance from world leaders in engineering and science, has identified
the grand challenges that society, and its engineers and scientists, must address in the 21st century.
Clean air and water are essential to our health and survival. Yet, one out of every six people globally lack adequate
access to clean water, and more than double that number lack basic sanitation systems. Professors like Pratim Biswas,
the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor and Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering
and Dan Giammar, the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering, are advancing research to create
better systems for purifying and delivering water and improving air quality.
The incidence of cancer and infectious and neurodegenerative diseases are rising at an alarming rate. Professor Lihong
Wang, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is revolutionizing early cancer detection
through imaging techniques using photoacoustic tomography while Professor Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Professor of
Biomedical Engineering, is working to develop new biomaterials for tissue regeneration, stem cell transplantation, and
drug delivery.
Professor Wang has received a prestigious BRAIN Initiative Award from the National Institutes of Health. The award is
part of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, a national research effort
launched to revolutionize the understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain
disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.
Addressing world concerns in security and defense is an
ever-growing need. Professor Arye Nehorai, the Preston
M. Green Professor and Chair of the Department of
Electrical & Systems Engineering, applies statistical signal
processing and imaging methods for locating targets using
novel sensors. Other applications of his research include
environmental monitoring of chemical substances and new
methods of locating abnormalities in human tissue.
Making solar energy
more economical
has been an ongoing
challenge. By looking
at a piece of material
in cross section, Professor Parag Banerjee and his team discovered how copper
sprouts grass-like nanowires (left) that could one day be made into solar cells.
Learning how the brain works will contribute to creating the best thinking machines. Daniel Moran, Associate Professor
of biomedical engineering and Eric Leuthardt, Associate Professor of neurological surgery received a four-year,
$2 million grant from the National Science Foundation for research which will eventually provide a transplanted artificial
or real arm that can act upon brain neuronal activity and perform tasks that the brain tells it to.
“If we could take these and study
some of the basic optical and electronic
properties, we could potentially
make solar cells. In terms of optical
properties, copper oxides are well-
positioned to become a solar energy
harvesting material.”
Parag Banerjee, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering &
Materials Science

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Leading from many strengths
Some of the greatest advances in research
outcomes spring from the interfaces between
engineering and other disciplines. Through
the convergence of Washington University’s
extraordinary strengths, the School has
developed vibrant program areas, new
technologies, and cross-disciplinary research
centers that are revolutionizing engineering,
medicine, business, communications, science,
and national policy.
• Faculty and students in Biological & Medical Engineering study biomolecular and cellular networks that control
the onset and progression of aging and various complex diseases. Advances in cancer, cardiovascular disorders,
Alzheimer’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases — some of the most severe health care challenges today — will
impact millions of lives. Significant advances in biomechanics, metabolic engineering, and synthetic biology also are
being catalyzed by engineers in this field.
• Researchers working in Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology — the engineering of structures on sizes comparable
to those of atoms and molecules — have developed new materials for use in the acquisition and storage of energy
and ways to use available energy more efficiently. Applications in biomedical fields include novel materials for use in
surgery as well as in tissue regeneration and reconstruction.
• The rapid pace of globalization requires heightened demand for energy and goods through sustainable sources and
with technologies that will have limited environmental consequences. Environmental Engineering & Sustainable
Technologies developed by researchers like Professor Richard Axelbaum, EN77, the Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor
of Environmental Engineering Science and director of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization, is making a
difference in the world’s energy future.
• Understanding problems in medicine, biology, and the environment require innovative advances in Imaging
Technology & Signal Processing, an area of increasing importance in sensor networks, radiation therapy, and
diagnostic medicine. New imaging technology being developed by Professor Lihong Wang will allow doctors to
determine if cancerous cells are embedded deep in tissues without having to perform surgery.
• Engineers who can address increasing demands for superior scalability and security of Network & Communications
Systems are vital to our world of rapidly advancing communication technology. Tomorrow’s networks must be
more scalable and secure than today’s Internet and must be able to handle hundreds of billions of data bytes while
preserving confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility for critical services.
Stephen F. Camilla T. Brauer Hall

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Poised for growth to better serve others
The School of Engineering & Applied Science continues to play a vital role at
Washington University, a top-flight teaching and research institution with one
of the nation’s best schools of medicine and an unrivaled social work school.
A world player in addressing societal problems through national and
international partnerships, the School is impacting many important
initiatives at home and abroad:
• Named Data Networking: Principal researcher, Patrick Crowley,
Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, has helped to
establish a new consortium of U.S. universities and leading technology
companies to promote development and adoption of Named Data
Networking, a new Internet protocol architecture to increase network security, accommodate growing bandwidth
requirements, and simplify the creation of increasingly sophisticated applications.
• The Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization: University researchers have joined efforts with industries, foundations,
and government organizations to advance clean coal technology, making St. Louis one of the nation’s centers for
clean coal research. The goal of the consortium is to foster the utilization of coal as a safe and affordable source of
energy, and as a chemical feedstock, with minimal impact on the environment
• McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environment Partnership (MAGEEP): Under the direction of Professor
Pratim Biswas, an expert in aerosols and air quality, the University partners with MAGEEP, a consortium of 28 other
leading international universities and corporate partners, on issues of energy, environmental and sustainability
research, education, and sustainable campus operations.
• Center of Regenerative Medicine: Co-Directed by Professor Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, the Center of Regenerative
Medicine is a research collaborative of over 60 faculty members committed to advancing the science of regenerative
medicine and its therapeutic applications. Regenerative medicine harbors enormous potential to impact the
treatment and cure of a wide range of debilitating human diseases. This rapidly developing field invents approaches
to enhance the healing process for degenerative diseases, or injured adult tissues and organs, as well as to repair
birth defects, either by harnessing the body’s own stem cell reservoirs and reprogramming capabilities, or by
engineering tissues ex-vivo.

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World-class community
World-class people make a world-class university. In the School of
Engineering & Applied Science, faculty are not only committed teachers,
they are also distinguished scholars and researchers. Over the past
decade, 20 engineering faculty members have received prestigious National
Science Foundation CAREER awards, which recognize early career-
development activities of teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate
research and education within the context of their organization’s mission.
In 2011, Lan Yang, the Edwin H. and Florence A. Skinner Professor, received
the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
for her innovative work with optical resonators and microlasers and their
applications for optical communications and single nanoparticle sensing. Engineering faculty received more than $28
million in research funding in fiscal year 2014 from the federal government, corporate partners, and other agencies.
An outstanding faculty draws outstanding students. Washington University ranked No. 14 for National Universities
Rankings in the fall 2014 U.S. News & World Report. The average SAT score of accepted freshmen — 1485 out of a possible
1600 — rivals those scores at our overlapping, peer schools including Duke, Princeton, Stanford, and Northwestern
universities. Washington University’s engineering school received more than 6,500 undergraduate applications for 238
seats in the freshman class.
World-class impact
Of medium size with a rigorous curriculum, the Washington University
School of Engineering & Applied Science fosters an entrepreneurial
culture that allows it to remain nimble and quick to seize
opportunities. Students and faculty work side-by-side on research
projects that both advance theoretical knowledge and promote the
application of new discoveries.
With the goal of promoting new and innovative discoveries to solve
challenges or needs, the School of Engineering & Applied Science
created the Discovery Competition in 2012. This special opportunity
provides engineering undergraduate students the forum to explore their entrepreneurial interests with support from
mentors, to use their creativity to develop solutions for real-world problems and to compete for financial awards that
could help turn their ideas into businesses.
A partnership with the University-wide Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, which helps develop courses
and business competitions in entrepreneurship, has generated ideas and inventions among those in the engineering
community. Area organizations such as Arch Grants and BioSTL award startup businesses with substantial funds to
enhance an environment where entrepreneurs can start and grow businesses and advance bioscience company creation
that drives economic growth. Mentorships through Innovate St. Louis, alumni entrepreneurs, and others offer students
additional support and guidance.
Engineers Without Borders
Professor Pratim Biswas

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Many successful companies have been founded on the technology developed in the School of Engineering & Applied
Science. Several are based in St. Louis and are driving the region’s innovative, entrepreneurial culture. For example:
• Global Velocity: cyber security protects critical information in national security, enterprise networks, critical
infrastructure, and the cloud; St. Louis-based Global Velocity has changed the way companies control, manage, and
protect their data and networks; engineering alumnus Greg Sullivan, EN81, serves as chief executive officer.
• Exegy: provides hardware-accelerated computing appliances to the world’s leading financial organizations; former
engineering Professor Ron Indeck’s work on data searches led to the founding of St. Louis-based Exegy.
• X-tend Energy: produces high-performance electrochemical materials for lithium-ion batteries. Breakthrough
improvements in battery technologies with low-cost manufacturing processes have the potential to transform the
electric vehicle industry by lowering the cost and boosting the power of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The
technology was developed by engineering Professor Richard Axelbaum, EN77.
• Observable Networks: offers Network Security-as-a-Service providing automated security analytics and modeling to
continuously analyze the behavior of all network devices. Observable Networks was founded by Professor
Patrick Crowley.
• Sparo Labs: A medical device startup formed in St. Louis and founded by alumni Andrew Brimer, EN13, and
Abigail Cohen, EN13. Sparo Labs is developing a pocket-sized spirometer to measure lung function, which could impact
asthma patients worldwide.
Accomplished engineering alumni have impacted society and their communities in meaningful and significant
ways — from Chief of the NASA Astronaut Corps and U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert Behnken, EN92 EN92, crew member
and specialist for two U.S. space shuttle missions; to Dr. Alan Hurwitz, EN65, president of Gallaudet University
in Washington D.C.; to Anna Patterson, EN87 EN87, Google’s Vice President of Engineering; to entrepreneur Tony
Thompson, SI99, CEO of Kwame Building Group and a St. Louis philanthropist.
Likewise, engineering alumni serving in leading academic roles are helping to meet national and global challenges.
For example, W. E. Moerner, EN75 EN75 LA75, the Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University 2014
Nobel Price winner, is credited with achieving the first optical detection and spectroscopy of a single molecule in
condensed phases. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, Ellen Zegura, EN87 EN87 SI90 SI93, is well-regarded for
her research in wide-area (Internet) networking services and mobile wireless networking. Bruce Rittmann, PhD, SI74
EN74, is the director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State
University. His work is leading to new ways to clean up pollution, treat water and wastewater, capture renewable energy,
and improve human health.

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Many engineering school alumni who have launched or are heading companies are revolutionizing industries:
• Lilia Abron, SI68, founded PEER Consultants, P.C., a successful global environmental and general civil engineering
consulting firm. With six offices in the U.S., two overseas locations, and more than 115 licensed and/or accredited
professional engineers, scientists, and technicians, PEER specializes in environmental engineering.
• Matthew Ettus, EN96 EN96, founded Ettus Research LLC, one of the world’s leading suppliers of software-defined radio
hardware. Now a subsidiary of National Instruments, the company makes the Universal Software Radio Peripheral
(USRPTM) family of products — tools engineers use to create custom, flexible radio communications systems.
• Hal Barron, EN85, President of Research & Development for Calico, Google’s anti-aging startup, aimed at tackling
aging and illness. Barron combines this role with a part-time commitment at Roche, where he has served as chief
medical officer and head of global product development. He is also a member of the Genentech Board of Directors.
• James McKelvey, Jr., EN87 LA87, co-founded Square, the largest mobile payment platform in the nation. Square
is forging partnerships with organizations and businesses to stimulate small business growth and enhance the
payment experience for millions of customers.
Clearly, the School of Engineering & Applied Science is ready to be counted among the world’s best engineering schools.
We have the knowledge. We have the know-how. We have the network. We have set our goals. Now, we must work to
achieve them. To prepare the next generation of engineers for leadership roles in their organizations and communities,
we seek a substantial investment of resources.
The support of our alumni, friends, and partners has been critical to our successes. And it undeniably will define our
future. Your investment will help create a safe, healthy, and secure future. Only with your help can we realize the power
of our potential, and, true to the mission of Washington University, strive to benefit America and the world.
School of Engineering & Applied Science Priorities
Support for students $42 million
Support for faculty $20 million
Support for facilities $20 million
Support for interdisciplinary programs and centers $10 million
Support for the Engineering Annual Fund $18 million

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Student scholarships and fellowships bring the brightest to our doors
• We seek $42 million to attract a talented and diverse student body.
Washington University draws the most academically gifted,
creative, and imaginative undergraduate and graduate students
to our doors. They come for our excellent educational programs,
the reputation and research impact of our faculty, and the many
extraordinary curricular and co-curricular opportunities available in
the School and across Washington University. To continue to attract
and retain the best students, the School must increase support
for need-based and merit-based scholarships and fellowships.
Improving the retention rate of engineering undergraduates also
will require funding for more global experiences, undergraduate
research projects, and internships. Over the next decade, we wish to
increase the number of undergraduate engineering students from more than 1,300 to 1,500. Support for annual fund and
permanently endowed scholarships will aid our efforts to attract excellent students and achieve this growth.
Through engineering student organizations and design
projects, students have the opportunity to blend theory and
practice, developing critical leadership and management
skills. Upon graduation, students who participate in
engineering projects outside the classroom find themselves
ready to tackle similar problems in their careers. There are
20 engineering-related student organizations plus many
other valuable engineering-related projects in which students can participate. The need to fund such organizations as
Engineers without Borders, Formula SAE Team, and National Society of Black Engineers is overwhelming.
Critical to our success are talented doctoral students. The foundation and lifeblood of research programs, doctoral
students are the future workforce in academia and industry research. They bring research support to the School, drive
innovation, and attract other talented students and faculty. To strengthen their impact, we seek to increase our doctoral
pool from 380 to 500 students over the next decade. Because doctoral student stipends are fully supported by research
grants after the first year, the School must create an endowment of $60 million to support additional, first-year doctoral
students until they are assigned these grants.
The national trend shows many engineering fields are now requiring a master’s degree for entry-level professional
practice. For this reason, we seek to increase the number of master’s programs by more than 40 percent over the next
decade, emphasizing interdisciplinary study involving business, architecture, healthcare, and other areas. Programs
and financial support are now in place to encourage our best undergraduates to couple their four-year undergraduate
program with a fifth year to acquire a second degree, a master’s in a related engineering discipline.
“I’m putting myself through college.
If it weren’t for this financial support
I would not be here.”
Tomer Sabo, EN14 GB14
WashU Racing team

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Exceptional faculty set research direction, target solutions to society’s problems
• We seek $20 million to attract and retain outstanding faculty.
Washington University engineering professors are passionate
world-class researchers and educators. We must expand
their ranks to serve increasing student enrollment and
research programs. To build strategic mass in critical areas,
we must also continue to diversify faculty. With several
professors expected to retire over the next decade, our goal
is to grow our tenured and tenure-track faculty to 120 and
double research support to $50 million annually.
To serve the engineering school’s great faculty, we must
provide them with resources to make societal impact.
To attract stand-out researchers and academic leaders
who will take the engineering program to the next level of excellence, the School must secure funding for endowed
professorships, department chairs, and a dean’s chair — compelling recruiting tools for exceptional faculty.
First-class facilities advance research outcomes
• We seek $20 million to strengthen an exceptional teaching, research, and living environment.
State-of-the-art facilities help attract and retain the best and brightest students and the most talented faculty and provide
them with the tools they need to do their best work. Engineering students and faculty must have an optimal physical
environment that fosters collaboration and discovery.
Over the past decade, Washington University, the School
of Engineering & Applied Science, and generous donors
have invested more than $150 million in developing a new
engineering complex on the northeast corner of the Danforth
Campus. As part of the East Campus plan, we hope to build
upon the teaching and research excellence taking place on
this remarkable campus.
This effort will require new instructional spaces to educate
the next generation of engineers and leaders; laboratories
that serve robust and growing research agendas; and spaces
for the planned expansion of students, faculty, partnerships,
and interdisciplinary activity. Henry A. and Elvira H. Jubel
Hall will further promote and strengthen collaboration as it
will house the Department of Mechanical Engineering &
Materials Science on East Campus.
“We are trying to understand
what causes some of the major
environmental problems, and then
develop technologies to prevent them
at the source.”
Pratim Biswas, PhD
Professor and Department Chair,
Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
“America needs more young people
who pursue engineering and other
technical disciplines to help us compete
globally. It is my hope that this new
building will create enthusiasm and
attract bright students who will serve
as our leaders of tomorrow.”
Don Jubel, EN73
President & CEO of Spartan Light Metal
and Washington University Trustee

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Interdisciplinary programs and centers stimulate collaboration, speed progress
• We seek $10 million to advance the scholarship, research, and creative potential of
students and faculty.
Interdisciplinary programs and centers bring together faculty and students from wide-ranging areas, to exchange ideas,
collaborate, and learn from one another. They help advance technology and build a culture of entrepreneurship across
the dynamic landscape of 21st century teaching and research. These programs create opportunities to develop ideas
into action and action into solutions for ever-greater societal impact.
Building on strengths in medicine and engineering, the
multidisciplinary Center for Biological Systems Engineering
(CBSE) has the potential to transform our understanding of
the onset and progression of complex diseases such as cancers
and neurodegenerative diseases. This work will enable
diagnosis through early detection and improved therapeutics
through identification of molecular targets. Researchers
including Rohit Pappu, PhD, Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Director of CBSE, who studies Alzheimer’s and
Huntington’s diseases, are collaborating on novel approaches
to detect, diagnose, and treat complex diseases.
Important work in the University’s Nano Research Facility
draws researchers from across disciplines to identify
applications in the energy, environment, and biomedical
fields. Resulting products have included a surgical mesh
made of strands of nanofibers, which will make surgical
repairs easier on doctors and patients alike. Matthew
MacEwan, a recent graduate in the University’s M.D./Ph.D.
program, developed the biological surgical mesh and formed
a company, Acera Surgical, Inc., to develop a first-in-class
line of implantible electrosupun neruosurgical meshes and
related tools and accessories.
Opportunities for greater impact come from the Institute of Materials Science & Engineering. Established by the
Schools of Engineering & Applied Science and Arts & Sciences, the Institute integrates and exploits the full potential of
interdisciplinary materials research by bringing together more than 30 researchers from engineering, physics, chemistry,
and earth and planetary sciences. While advances in materials science and engineering research depend on knowledge
from traditional disciplines, a new dynamic and diverse approach through a convergence of disciplines provides the
greatest opportunities for unprecedented discoveries - new knowledge that cannot be achieved by a single discipline
or department. The Institute also educates the next generation of materials scientists and engineers through a novel
interdisciplinary PhD program.
“The problems of society are all
complex, and finding solutions to
them will involve interdisciplinary
approaches. An interdisciplinary
center or initiative can bring together
students, faculty and staff with
common interests who can accomplish
more by working together than
by working alone. The very best
interdisciplinary initiatives are ones
where the individuals have exceptional
disciplinary strength. The greatest
success comes where such individuals
are willing to work with others and
share their expertise to achieve
common goals.”
Chancellor Mark Wrighton

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Engineering Annual Fund supports unexpected opportunities and needs
• We seek $18 million to enhance excellence by increasing Engineering annual support.
Support for the Engineering Annual Fund provides the
flexibility to seize new opportunities and respond to
unexpected challenges. Annual Fund support is a critical
resource that keeps the engineering school at the forefront
of discovery and innovation.
Support for the Annual Fund provides instant impact
regardless of amount. These gifts go to work immediately
to support student internships and research/design
competitions, pay for technology and laboratory equipment,
provide seed funding for new research initiatives, fund
interdisciplinary centers, and bring distinguished leaders
to campus.
New programs like the multidisciplinary Engineering
Discovery Competition, open to undergraduates, encourages
student teams to develop innovative health and energy products,
mobile applications, and other new technologies.
Leading Together
The School of Engineering & Applied Science plays a vital role within Washington University, the St. Louis region, and the
nation. It has become a world player, collaborating across disciplines to address pressing challenges in medicine and
health, energy and the environment, and security.
Now, the School is positioned to impact the world in more profound and significant ways. To strengthen our leadership,
we must inspire and prepare the next generation of engineers and leaders who will help solve urgent global challenges
of the 21st century. This will require resources to attract the brightest students and the most talented faculty, ensure
state-of-the-art facilities for teaching and learning, and provide programs that stimulate collaboration and speed
research and discovery.
We are committed to becoming one of the world’s premier engineering schools. With the continued dedication, hard work,
and generous support of our engineering alumni, friends, and partners, we will achieve our vision to serve society — to
improve the quality of life for the greater good. Together, we will lead to ensure a bright, secure future for generations to
come. We invite you to join us.
“Washington University has given
me the tools to succeed and discover
new things on my own. It’s difficult
to experience the practical side of
engineering in a classroom setting.
Through my internships with the Federal
Highway Administration and Paric
Corporation, I learned what is right for
me. I enjoy being on-site every day.”
— Kristen Cardenas, EN12

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For more information or to make a gift, please contact us
Aaron Bobick
Dean and James M. McKelvey Professor
School of Engineering & Applied Science
afb@wustl.edu
(314) 935-6350
Abe L. Cross
Senior Director of Development
School of Engineering & Applied Science
abecross@wustl.edu
(314) 935-9379
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