A $100,000 check was donated to Iowa State by the Takano Company.

The money was given in support of an endowed fellowship for students pursuing graduate work in the electrical and computer engineering department.

The check was presented to ISU President Martin Jischke during a reception at the Durham Center. Asakazu Horii, president of Takano Co. Ltd., Nagano, Japan, awarded the gift.

Robert Harris, acting director of Iowa State’s Center for Advanced Technology Development (CATD), said Horii’s interest in ISU began in 1991 when Takano visited the campus and was impressed with the non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques used at the university.

The latest check brings the company’s total fellowship support over the last five years to $500,000 and will make it possible to award the first fellowship this fall, Harris said.

“We wanted to fund scholarships off of the interest of the $500,000,” Harris said. “The purpose of this scholarship is to make it as prestigious as possible and sufficiently large and internationally open.”