Publication date:
2017/10/10
An extraordinary financial award has been received by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from a former student, Thomas Morel, a czechoamerican. The one million dollar donation obtained on 6 October is meant to support science, research and education.
The donor graduated from studies at the former Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1965. At the end of the 1960s, he went to the USA where he received a PhD at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and began his research career at General Motors' laboratories. In 1994, he founded his own company, Gamma Technologies, Inc. Among its most significant benefits is the development and application of a software model optimizing the drive unit of a vehicle from a thermodynamic, aerodynamic and mechanical point of view, which today accounts for almost 80% of the cars.
The funds received by the faculty will be used for completion of testing facilities for support of basic and applied research according to precisely specified activities contained in the financing agreement, signed by the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University, prof. Michael Valášek. This support also prepares the establishment of Thomas Morel Scholarship for students and teachers abroad and for purchasing of test equipment for student projects.
Interview of Thomas Morel for the Czech Radio can be heard here.
