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Â鶹ÊÓƵ alumni Andrew and Joyce Moore Green established a new academic chair in Â鶹ÊÓƵ's College of Engineering with a $1.2 million gift from the Green Foundation. A native of Southeast Texas, Andrew Green graduated from Â鶹ÊÓƵ in 1954 with a bachelor science degree in civil engineering.

He received a master's degree from Southern Methodist University in 1958 and worked for Bethlehem Steel in Beaumont, Texas, and for General Dynamics in Fort Worth before founding Composite Technology, Inc., in the 1960s. An engineering and manufacturing company, Composite Technology made all-composite buildings, composite structures for industrial applications including bridges, roofing, siding, decking, purlins, grids, cooling towers, and wireline service units. Green's talents with composites also extended to his creation of the world-dominating Chaparral race car of the 1960s and to racing sailboats. A registered professional engineer, Green holds several patents for composite structures.