Why Should I Support ECE?

Student study group in Keller Hall

Gifts from ECE alumni, friends, and industry alliances have been critical to our success in our academic and research missions. It has driven discovery, collaboration, education, and innovation by our students and faculty. With your support, we can continue on our journey of excellence, training future scientists, engineers, and educators. With your support, our faculty can continue to focus on discovery and innovation. 

Your generosity helps us:
Provide crucial support for our undergraduate students, alleviate their financial burden, and attract and train students from diverse backgrounds to be future engineers, scientists, and leaders.

Attract graduate students from a highly diverse pool who show extraordinary potential, support their outstanding research, and prepare them to be exceptional professionals, scientists, and leaders of the future.

Support our faculty to take the risks that advance discoveries, aid innovation, drive solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s challenges, and contribute to sharing their knowledge in the classroom and beyond.

Provide students access to the most up-to-date industry-appropriate instruction and experiential laboratories and collaborative learning spaces, and support hands-on learning oriented student groups such as the Solar Vehicle Project.

We encourage you to support our students and faculty by making a gift to one of the ECE Giving Categories

Our External Relations Officer Anastacia Quinn Davis can help you take the next step: 
Email: aqdavis@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-4509
Or you can take the next step directly Make a Gift Online

Learn about our donors and the scholarships, fellowships, professorships, and other endeavors their support