On Campus Difference Makers, October 2011

Marquette University has announced a donation from an alumni couple to establish an endowed chair in electrical engineering at the College of Engineering.

V. Clayton Lafferty (WI B ’50) and his wife Beverly graduated from MU in 1950. Clayton “spent much of his professional career as the head of research and development at United Parcel Service.” Read the news release

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According to a report from the AP, the University of Illinois at Chicago has received a National Science Foundation grant to provide need-based scholarships in the chemical engineering department. The program will also focus on attracting first year women engineers and more engineers in general.

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Led by a retired associate professor, a student-designed electric car from Brigham Young University “has set a world land speed record for its weight class.”

The project involved 130 students over seven years working on the custom-built vehicle, “Electric Blue.” Click here to read more about the 155.8 mph average speed qualifying runs.

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