Houston Couple Gives $6 Million to Engineering, Football

There are fewer chemical engineering programs in the U. S. than other engineering disciplines, Hopper said. Very few “have the distinction of being named due to very generous philanthropic endowments of their graduates.”

Lamar’s chemical engineering department is home to the university’s first Ph.D. program and its growth has generated new construction on campus, a $7.8 million project adjacent to the Cherry Engineering Building that will begin construction this summer.