Giving Back

From its modest beginnings in 1889 with the first program in electrical engineering in the United States to being the home of the first electrical engineering faculty member to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, electrical engineering at Princeton has always focused on providing a dynamic educational experience.

Today, the department faces many challenges because the field of electrical engineering is constantly changing. Ubiquitous computing, optics, organic semiconductors, cellular communications, the Internet, and biotechnology are some of the emerging areas that impact our educational programs. We must regularly innovate by revising courses and laboratories, introducing new courses, and hiring new faculty in these and other emerging areas.

We count on alumni and friends to help us provide a high-quality and up-to-date educational experience. Two of the department’s most important initiatives are the creation of new endowed chairs and a plan to significantly increase the Electrical Engineering Endowment Fund.

Endowed Professorships

In recent years we have been very successful in recruiting and retaining top faculty. However, in this time of stiff national competition among the top electrical engineering departments, successful recruiting and retention could be better sustained by our ability to offer an endowed professorship to an accomplished senior teacher-scholar.

Each endowed professorship requires an endowment of $3,000,000.

Electrical Engineering Endowment Fund

Our efforts to maintain the vitality and relevance of the department's programs requires flexible funds that can used to the meet the on-going challenges and evolution of the field. The Department is making a serious effort to increase our department endowment so as to meet these needs. All gifts to the department endowment, no matter how modest, will assist us to meet this goal.

Endowment funds are sought to support:

• A new optics teaching laboratory.
• Revision and upgrading of the junior year design course.
• Additional support for student independent work and senior theses.
• An award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants.
• Start-up packages to help attract and support new junior faculty.

For more information about making a gift to the department, please contact:

Jane R. Maggard
Assistant Dean for Development
School of Engineering and Applied Science
phone: 609-258-6850
Email: jmaggard@princeton.edu