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CEE GOLF OUTING
Please mark your calendar for
Monday, Sept. 17, 2007 for the 11th
annual CEE Golf Outing! This event will exceed your expectations.
We expect to fill two 18-hole golf courses with students, alumni,
and industry partners totaling close to 300 people. There will
be a live auction like you have never seen before with items
such as UW football, basketball, and hockey tickets; Green Bay
Packer tickets; and many other items of high value and interest.
Please consider donating something of value for the auction
or becoming an event sponsor.
Visit www.engr.wisc.edu/cee/CEEGolfOuting2007.pdf
for more detailed information. We hope to raise more than
$65,000 for the department at this event and need your help
to make it happen.
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR: Forward
Progress
 he spring semester once again has been marked
by a number of key events, including receptions for our alumni and industry
connections in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C.; the ASCE
student regional competition; James Schneider’s
offer and acceptance to join the faculty in August of 2008; our ranking
of 13th in the U.S. News and World Report;
the promotion of Associate Professor David
Noyce; 51 graduates this semester; the department’s focus
on strategic planning; the election of Professor Greg
Harrington as associate chair of undergraduate education and Professor
Larry
Bank as associate chair of graduate studies; and alumni events for
our 1947–1957 graduates during the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s
Alumni Weekend.
From the development perspective, we are visiting
with our alumni and industry partners to raise funds for faculty startup
packages because, for us to remain competitive in recruiting first-rate
faculty members, we must provide a startup package to kick-start their
teaching and research careers. The department must raise $100,000 for
each new faculty member; the majority of these funds are normally used
for laboratory equipment and supporting graduate students.
In addition, we are seeking funds to support programs
we have expanded over the last three years. The department invests approximately
$25,000 annually to support student-based competitions such as the Steel
Bridge and Concrete Canoe competitions. Another recent development in
education in the department is two pilot courses in architectural engineering
and construction collaborative design and in building information modeling.
Our investment in these two classes is $25,000 per year over a three-year
period.
Finally, faculty and staff professional development
is crucial to enhancing the effectiveness of our department, and demands
on faculty and staff have changed significantly over the last five years.
In response, we want to send faculty to the Center for Creative Leadership
and to fund staff professional development activities that enhance their
communication capabilities, technical literacy and operational efficiency.
We are investing about $25,000 per year in this initiative.
If you are interested and able to help us meet any
of these needs, please contact me or Deb Holt at the University of Wisconsin
Foundation at 608/263-0779 or
Deb.Holt@uwfoundation.wisc.edu.
Stop in and see us any time you are in Madison.
On Wisconsin!
Respectfully Yours,
Jeffrey
S. Russell, PhD, P.E., F., ASCE
2205 Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608/262-7244
Fax: 608/262-5199
E-mail:
russell@engr.wisc.edu
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