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February 20, 2008
Purdue creates new instrumentation engineering professorship
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue's College of Engineering will announce Wednesday (Feb. 20) a $2 million gift from an anonymous donor that will create a new endowed professorship to assist instrumentation research.The announcement is being made in conjunction with Purdue's celebration of National Engineers Week, which was created to raise public understanding and appreciation of engineers' contributions to society.
"The gift also provides support for a technician to work with the professor," said Purdue President France A. Córdova. "This complement is rare and will strengthen the professorship. It would not have been possible without those individuals who support our efforts and goals."
The professorship can be affiliated with several schools in the College of Engineering, providing valued flexibility, said Leah H. Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering.
"Instrumentation is the technology of creating, constructing and maintaining the measuring and control devices and systems that equip the manufacturing plants and research institutions so vital to today's expanding economy," Jamieson said. "Variables such as temperature, pressure, flow, velocity and density can be measured through instrumentation, so research in this field is always in great demand."
The National Engineers Week Foundation is a formal coalition of more than 75 professional societies, major corporations and government agencies. It was formed to ensure a diverse and well-educated future engineering work force by increasing the understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers among young students and by promoting precollege literacy in math and science.
Purdue's College of Engineering is made up of 11 schools and departments: aeronautics and astronautics, agricultural and biological, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical and computer, engineering education, industrial, materials, mechanical, and nuclear. The college also includes the divisions of construction engineering and management, engineering professional practice, environmental and ecological engineering and programs such as Engineering Projects in Community Service, Minority Engineering Program, Professional Practice Program and the Women in Engineering Program.
In addition to the more than 6,379 undergraduate students, the college enrolls 2,277 graduate students.
Writer: Clyde Hughes, (765) 494-2073, jchughes@purdue.edu
Source: Leah H. Jamieson, (765) 494-5346, ljh@purdue.edu
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