Giving Stories

"DREAM" - Will help Engineering Students Achieve Goals

Rick Brown (BS Mechanical Engineering '71) recently established the DREAM Endowed Scholarship in Engineering (Dedicated to Recruiting Engineers for America and Michigan). He says that he has merely planted the seed; his intent is that the endowment will grow into a substantial scholarship as other alumni contribute, thus nurturing the project. For the complete story, see pages 28-29 in Currents, Fall 2007.

Maibach Gift Leads to New Engineering Career Center

Ben Maibach and his wife, Barbara, chose to get involved with helping launch a new career services center in the College of Engineering. Ben (BS Civil Engineering '69) and Barbara (BA Mathematics '68) made a generous gift that served as the catalyst in the development of the center. "You have to do things at a different level today. You can't just provide classroom education to students. You need partnership with business," said Ben. For the complete story see page 6 of Currents, Spring 2008.