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At Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, every cent, including the $1.3 million of stock that was bought back by the company in 2022, of the Dolese funds has benefited students. The Dolese money has made scholarship aid possible and has been a primary factor behind helping more students attend OSU and eventually walk across the graduation stage.

Since 2012, the amount of undergraduate engineering degrees given out each year has more than doubled. During this period of a little over a decade, degree production for mechanical and aerospace engineering has increased 151%, a number exponentially higher than the university average at 28.6%.

Industrial engineering and electrical and computer engineering have also seen large increases in degree produc- tion with 207% and 84% increases, respectively.

The Dolese fund has reached many other areas at OSU as well, including funding tutoring and discussion sessions, College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology preparatory pro grams, K-12 summer camps and student work at the Bert Cooper Structures and Materials Lab, which ironically is focused on concrete research.

“Our engineering programs have grown at a remarkable rate over the past decade,” OSU President Kayse Shrum said. “These peaks would not have been achievable without Dolese’s aid, which has funded so many scholarships and other life-changing programs for our students.” news.ed@ocolly.com

All three of the universities involved predict their engineering departments to continue to grow and strengthen. With the fund agreement anticipated to last concretely, the Dolese impact will continue to reach lives for years to come.