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Armantrout founds ECE graduate fund

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
January 6, 2016
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Robert J. Armantrout (BSE EE ’76), Santa Rosa, California, has established the Robert J. Armantrout Endowed Fellowship Fund. The Fund will provide merit-based support to graduate students in the ECE Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “I’m grateful for the strong technical foundation provided by my time at Michigan. I hope my gift will help Michigan Engineering’s ECE department maintain its excellent standards.”

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