WEST LAFAYETTE — The Purdue Board of Trustees approved naming the School of Civil Engineering for the Lyles family in recognition of a $15 million gift from the Lyles Foundation.
The school will be known as the Lyles School of Civil Engineering. The gift will be used to broaden the school's capacities for learning and discovery and for generating solutions to critical global problems.
“The Lyles family has deep ties to Purdue and a long history of generous support for the university,” said President Mitch Daniels. “This latest of so many gifts fits uniquely into the university's action plan to increase the number of engineers we supply to our state and nation.”
