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July 5, 2000 Contact: WSU Vancouver Manufacturing Engineering Program Receives $367,000 Grant from M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded a $367,000 grant to Washington State University Vancouver’s manufacturing engineering program to purchase sophisticated scientific microscopes. Timothy McLaren, project leader and engineering professor, submitted the grant proposal to the Trust last summer for the equipment purchase that will provide essential imaging capabilities for a university microelectronics learning laboratory. Located in the new 60,000-square-foot Engineering Life Sciences building, the laboratory will allow for education and research related to microelectronics manufacturing. The grant provides funding for a compound optical microscope, including a high-resolution video camera, monitor and computer interface for image processing; a scanning electron microscope; a stereo zoom optical microscope and an x-ray microscope. The diagnostic equipment and the microelectronics lab, along with a new faculty position funded by the state of Washington through the Advanced Technology Initiative, will be the nucleus for further development of a regional center for semiconductor research at WSU Vancouver. This grant is Murdock’s largest gift to WSU Vancouver. Murdock last gave $46,800 to the WSU Vancouver education program for the development of a multimedia science curriculum in local schools in 1993. The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust was established in 1975 by the will of the late Melvin J. (Jack) Murdock, a co-founder of Tektronix, Inc. in Beaverton, Ore., and resident of Vancouver. The mission of the Trust is "to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest by providing grants to organizations that seek to strengthen the region’s education and cultural base in creative and sustainable ways." ah 134-00
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