Endowed Professorships:

There is no better tool for recruiting and retaining the very best faculty than a named professorship endowed in perpetuity. Endowed chairs enable Penn Engineering to attract senior-level professors, providing prestige and guaranteed support for research activities. Only faculty who have demonstrated preeminence in their fields receive this honor.

$3,000,000 endows a tenured engineering faculty position.

Endowed Term Assistant Professorships:

Intermediate level professors must have a widely recognized research record before they are granted the senior-level tenure status of a full professor. An Assistant Term Professorship, funded for five years, can help put a talented junior researcher on a senior level track by making available the financial resources for key career-enhancing opportunities.

$500,000 will endow a term faculty position.

Faculty Recruitment Fund:

A School is only as good as its faculty, and Penn Engineering must have resources available to hire the very best; no other asset has a larger impact on the student experience. When recruiting new faculty, the School must be prepared to offer a highly competitive package that may persuade faculty to choose Penn over other top-tier schools.

Gifts range from $10,000 to $500,000.

Graduate Fellowships:

The excitement and discovery of research is open to all students and is the keystone of Penn Engineering’s world-class Ph.D. programs. These programs are augmented by diverse Master's degree offerings. Penn Engineering offers a stimulating environment where collaborative research between students and their faculty mentors flourishes. An endowed named fellowship fund would partially support one of Penn Engineering’s graduate students for a full academic year.

$250,000 creates a named endowed fellowship at Penn Engineering.

Undergraduate Scholarships:

Scholarship donors find it extremely rewarding to know that they are making it possible for deserving students to receive a Penn Engineering education. Endowed scholarships make a tremendous difference in our ability to enroll the very best students regardless of their families’ financial resources.

$1,000,000 creates an endowed scholarship fund that will support four students—one per class—in perpetuity, or if used for matching funds, will help 30 students receive named scholarships.

$750,000 creates an endowed scholarship fund that will support three students—four years each—in perpetuity, or if used for matching funds, will help 22 students receive named scholarships.

$500,000 creates an endowed scholarship fund that will support two students—four years each—in perpetuity, or if used for matching funds, will help 15 students receive named scholarships.

$300,000 creates an endowed scholarship fund that will support one student’s four-year education in perpetuity.

$100,000 creates an endowed scholarship fund that will partially support one student’s four-year education in perpetuity.

$67,000 creates an endowed scholarship fund for first time major gift donors that will partially support one student’s four-year education in perpetuity. For a limited time, gifts of $67,000 will be matched with $33,000 from a Challenge Fund at Penn.

Pledges for all of the above are payable over five years. For more information about making a gift to support these Engineering priorities, please contact George Hain at ghain@seas.upenn.edu or 215-898-6564.