School of Engineering Announces President of its Foundation Board of Trustees

By Naomi Crown
School of Engineering

The Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering announces the election of Arthur D. Hurtado as president of the School of Engineering Foundation Board of Trustees.

Hurtado is the chairman, CEO and co-founder of the McLean, Va.-based Invertix Corp., a technology company that serves enterprises in research and development, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, security and cyber warfare.

Hurtado also serves on the VCU Board of Visitors, the Board of Advisors for the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University and for the Department of Chemistry at Missouri State University. Hurtado served with distinction as an officer in the U.S. Army, where he served in combat and managed a variety of communications systems programs. Among his medals, he holds the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Purple Heart.

“I am very excited to partner with Dean Russell Jamison, the university, our foundation members and the community to leverage past successes and accelerate our growing support for the dean’s aggressive vision for propelling the School of Engineering to national prominence,” Hurtado said.

The VCU School of Engineering opened in 1996 as the result of a public-private partnership and initially occupied a building funded entirely by the Engineering Foundation. The first class graduated in 2000, and the school opened a second building, collocated with the School of Business, in 2008.  The Engineering portion of this building was also privately funded by the Foundation. The school now occupies more than 300,000 square feet of classroom and laboratory space, including the recent addition to West Hall that houses the VCU Institute for Engineering and Medicine and the Center for Nanomaterials Characterization.