The official Tumblr of Virginia Tech's Office of University Development, located at the Gateway Center on the corner of University City Blvd., and Prices Fork Rd., in Blacksburg, Va.
This website is maintained by the Development Communications team headed by Albert Raboteau, Gary Cope, and Chuck George.
Congratulations to the students in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering on being chosen as the most philanthropic in the country in 2012. They were also cited as having the nation’s best student engineers’ council, according to the results of the recent annual competition hosted by the National Association of Engineering Student Councils (NAESC) at Purdue University.
In the Winter 2012 issue of Impact Magazine (p. 13) we highlighted the philanthropic efforts of the engineering students at Virginia Tech. Since establishing the Paul E. Torgersen Leadership Scholarship in 1986, the Student Engineers’ Council has donated more than $1 million to the college’s students and faculty.
This money was used for various engineering projects, including partially funding more than 30 engineering organizations such as the internationally award-winning hybrid electric vehicle team, the outdoor-terrain motorsport team, and the Baja and Formula Society of Automotive Engineers’ teams.
Click on the photo to learn more about how the engineering students are raising money, and how they are using it to support the college.