Ways of Giving

Giving to CAEE may be fulfilled through gifts such as the following:

  • Cash
  • Securities
  • Estate Plans (UT Gift Planning)
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement Plan Assets
  • Real Estate

For more information or for other ways to get involved, please contact Kelsey Evans at (512) 471-6151 or via email.

Matching Gifts

Increase the value of your gift! Use your company’s matching gift program. To see if your company has this policy, see Cockrell School of Engineering.

Giving Opportunities

Donors may choose to allocate their gift in one of the following three ways (click to jump to a specific section):

1) NAMED ENDOWMENT OPPORTUNITIES

  • Established Faculty Endowments ~ open gift size
    Over the years, generous alumni, friends and faculty members themselves, have established named Faculty Endowments to perpetuate their legacy of excellence for future generations. Distributions from these endowments, are typically used to support and sponsor excellence within the department, or the faculty member’s academic area. You may chose to designate your gift to one or more of the following established funds in honor of any of the following:

    • Jack Breen, established 1986
    Phil Ferguson, established 1980
    John A. Focht, established 1982
    Earnest F. Gloyna, established 1985
    Ron Hudson, established 2003
    Clyde Lee, established 1995
    Hudson Matlock, established 2001
    Walter L. Moore, established 1988
    Carl Morgan, established 2004
    Roy Olson, established 2003
    Lymon Reese, established 1999
    Richard Tucker, established 2003

  • Undergraduate Scholarship ~ From $25,000
  • Endowed Presidential Scholarship ~ From $50,000
  • Endowed Graduate Fellowship ~ From $100,000
  • Endowed Faculty Fellowship ~ From $300,000
  • Endowed Professorship ~ From $500,000
  • Endowed Faculty Chair ~ From $2,000,000
  • Naming of the CE Department ~ $25,000,000

All named endowments may be set up to recognize the donor or a designee. For more information on a named endowment, please visit the Cockrell School of Engineering endowment page.

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2) PROGRAM SUPPORT

The Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering boasts a number of programs whose breadth allows for both comprehensive research across the field and for a first rate education. Accomplishing these tasks requires modern facilities and state-of-the-art equipment. To help us achieve our goal of providing the best possible education to our students, donors may direct their gift to one of the following program areas:

Structural Engineering and Materials

Structural Engineering and Materials encompasses education and research in wide-ranging areas of great importance to the built environment and human welfare: structural behavior, construction materials, structural reliability, offshore structures, harnessing of non-conventional energy resources, and computational mechanics. Experimental activities are spearheaded by the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory, which is dedicated to large-scale studies of structural behavior, and by the Construction Materials Research Group. To respond to the evolving challenges of the 21st century, the Structural Engineering Program is expanding its experimental facilities to provide new capabilities for studying both improved durability of the civil infrastructure and structural response under combined multiple hazards, such as fire and blast or impact loads. New designs, new materials, and new computational and analytical procedures are needed to meet the engineering challenges that lie ahead. Funds designated to Structural Engineering and Materials will allow our program to maintain and enhance its leadership position in shaping the future of structural engineering.

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (EWRE)

EWRE is the primary leader in environmental and water resources research at UT Austin, carrying out advanced research, education, design, and planning in water resources, treatment processes, and waste management for Texas, the United States, and the world. Gifts designated to EWRE will count toward a matching gift drive to obtain environmental and analytical instrumentation. A seed gift of $500,000 will be used to match donor’s gifts 1:1, thereby doubling the value of an individual gift. The raised funds will greatly enhance our students’ opportunities to study emerging environmental problems and to seek advances in the areas of complex environmental systems, sustainability, and practical applications of molecular sciences. State-of-the-art instrumentation is the key to producing cutting-edge solutions to these environmental challenges that both protect the environment and sustain industrial productivity.

Geotechnical Engineering

Geotechnical Engineering at UT Austin is an internationally-recognized leader in producing graduates and conducting research in all aspects of the discipline, ranging from foundations to slopes, to waste containment systems. The University of Texas at Austin has a strong tradition of providing a well-balanced graduate program, involving experimental, numerical, and field studies. A critical challenge today is the maintenance of modern, integrated geotechnical and geo-environmental experimental laboratories. Gifts designated to Geotechnical Engineering will be used to support state-of-the-art laboratory instrumentation—a key element in continuing the strong tradition of our program.

Transportation Engineering

Transportation Engineering covers the full spectrum of activities pertaining to the analysis, planning, design, construction, operation, and management of integrated transportation systems. The program combines a long tradition of innovation in highway and traffic engineering with a cutting-edge research and academic effort in the rapidly evolving transportation systems area. Gifts designated to Transportation Engineering will be used to enhance our facilities and strengthen our leadership in transportation education and research.

Construction Engineering and Project Management (CEPM)

In the last decade, UT’s CEPM progam has become one of the top programs in the United States, thanks to the leadership of Richard Tucker and the establishment of the Construction Industry Institute. Focus areas for the program include knowledge management, construction project delivery strategies and value concepts, green design and environmental sustainability, integrated and automated project processes, human resource management systems, and construction methods automation. Gifts designated to CEPM will be used to improve facilities and to expand the educational opportunities available to our students.

Architectural Engineering

Architectural Engineering focuses on integrating the many component disciplines necessary for successful building construction and operation. Longstanding strengths in structural engineering and construction engineering and project management are being supplemented with increased emphasis on building environmental systems and integrated project design. Gifts designated to Architectural Engineering will be used to improve teaching and research facilities in building environmental systems and computer-aided design.

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3) FRIENDS OF ALEC

Friends of Alec funds support both ongoing programs and special initiatives that promote excellence within the department. Donated funds that are designated to Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering will be used in the following ways:

  • Upgrade our classrooms and laboratories to provide the best learning environments possible
  • Support outstanding students through scholarship funding
  • Support engineering student organization activities
  • Provide resources for enhanced alumni relations programming and outreach
  • Recruit outstanding students and faculty to the department

For more information on any of the ways to give, please contact Kelsey Evans at (512) 471-6151 or by email.

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