Marquette Engineering gets $5 mil for endowed chair.

[Wareagle]

Cool story.  I never knew that a MU alum created the UPS logistics system.

http://www.jsonline.com/business/couple-donates-5-million-to-mu-engineering-school-130977873.html

An alumni couple living in Minneapolis has donated $5 million to Marquette University's College of Engineering to establish an endowed chair in electrical engineering, the school announced Monday.

V. Clayton and Beverly Lafferty are 1950 graduates of the school's College of Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences, respectively.

Lafferty, now 85, spent much of his career as the head of research and development at United Parcel Service, and is the creator of the system used to support the company's package delivery and logistics business.

The couple has also endowed the Lafferty Professorship in Engineering and the Elizabeth and Ray Lafferty Scholarship Fund, named in honor of Clay Lafferty's parents. They also contributed to the building fund for the school's new Engineering Hall.

A search for a person to take the Lafferty Chair is under way.

[Skatastrophy]

This is very exciting.  The best universities have professors paid for by endowments and MU's College of Engineering has been steadily moving that direction.

With stuff like this and the building of the 1st half of the Discovery Learning Complex we'll continue to have one of the best Engineering schools in the country!

[21Jumpstreet]

Very exciting.  Engineering Hall (name changed, awaiting a donor) will up the level of the entire program.  Proud of my wife, her company is building it.  Check out the grand opening Friday.

[Skatastrophy]

Very exciting.  Engineering Hall (name changed, awaiting a donor) will up the level of the entire program.  Proud of my wife, her company is building it.  Check out the grand opening Friday.

I'll be there (and at the happy hour afterwards at Caffrey's)!

Info:

Join us October 7 for the Opening Celebration of Phase I of Engineering Hall. A short program will begin at 3 p.m. followed by an open house and tours of the new, 115,000 square-foot engineering building located at 1637 W. Wisconsin Avenue. Come see how our students and faculty will learn, discover and be the difference as they tackle global challenges in a setting that will educate and inspire.

Limited parking will be available in the North 16th Street Parking Structure located between West Wisconsin Avenue and West Wells Street.

Post-event Reception: Join the College of Engineering Alumni Association at 4:30 p.m. at Caffrey's Pub, 717 North 16th St. (directly across from McCormick Hall).

[WellsstreetWanderer]

Congratulations to the entire MU Engineering family