Corporate Executive Donates $40-Million to Spur Engineering

Bernard M. Gordon, founder of the Analogic Corporation, and his wife, Sophia, have announced that they will give $20-million to the Museum of Science, in Boston, and to Northeastern University to support engineering education and research, reports The Boston Globe.

The museum grant will pay for an effort to remodel a wing of the institution, in the hopes that it can do more to inspire potential engineers and inventors, while the Northeastern grant will support an engineering center. Mr. Gordon, who graduated from MIT and is a trustee at Tufts University, has no personal connection to Northeastern.

In explaining the motivation for the grants, Mr. Gordon told the newspaper, “How could it be that the Romans built aqueducts 2,000 years ago that are still standing today, while the ceiling on the Big Dig tunnel came down in two years?”