Attracting and Retaining Leading Innovators
Goal: $40 Million

The Clark School has established an array of professorships to attract and retain leading professors, and is honored to have among its faculty people who match this high level of attainment. But to achieve greatness — to become the source of outstanding innovation in engineering research, education and entrepreneurship — we need many more.

One measure of faculty achievement is membership in the National Academy of Engineers or National Academy of Sciences. Compared to the mean of the top five public engineering schools in this category, we have attracted NAE/NAS faculty at only 30% of their levels. With funding from the Great Expectations campaign, we will create new professorships to double our number of nationally recognized faculty members, offer financial support to retain existing faculty and reward faculty achievement in research and teaching.

More information about professorships

Keystone: A National Model for Engineering Education
In entry-level engineering courses across the country, the fates of beginning engineers are being determined. Will these students maintain their interest in engineering? Will they persevere in the face of tough higher level courses? Will they remain confident that engineering is their proper calling and continue onward?

The answers to these questions are all influenced by one key factor: the quality of the teaching these students experience in their most fundamental classes.

Keystone: The Clark School Academy of Distinguished Professors is a new program that encourages the school's best faculty to teach our most fundamental courses, and thereby enhance the undergraduate student experience and increase the school?s student retention and graduation rates. By giving to the Keystone program, donors help to ensure that we give each student the greatest chances for long-term success and produce more engineers to keep the nation competitive.

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How You Can Help
To learn more about opportunities to advance the work of the Clark School, and to discuss your own ideas and plans, please contact Stu Stabley at 301-405-8289 or support-clarkschool@umd.edu.