{"id":45,"date":"2016-09-02T17:39:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=45"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:45:10","slug":"1-million-gift-from-alumnus-helps-university-of-detroit-mercy-create-innovative-engineering-center-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2016\/09\/02\/1-million-gift-from-alumnus-helps-university-of-detroit-mercy-create-innovative-engineering-center-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 million gift from alumnus helps create innovative engineering center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_img-right alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/community.udmercy.edu\/image\/alumni-awards\/2016\/kozyra.jpg?resize=160%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"William Kozyra\" width=\"160\" height=\"237\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>University of Detroit Mercy\u2019s new Center for Automotive Systems Engineering Education (CASEE) has received a major boost with a $1 million gift from William L. Kozyra &#8217;80 in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt in my mind that today I have a fabulous career and life as a result of the great education I received at University of Detroit Mercy,\u201d Kozyra said. \u201cI\u2019m lucky enough to be in a position where I can thank the school and help the school provide to other young adults the educational opportunities and the life opportunities I received.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kozyra is the chairman, chief executive officer and president of Auburn Hills-based TI Automotive, an automotive supplier with more than 125 locations in 28 countries.<\/p>\n<p>This gift is an important and significant investment in the future of the University and the type of education Kozyra believes the University will provide for tomorrow\u2019s engineers, said Dean of the College of Engineering &amp; Science Gary Kuleck. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/news_events\/news\/by-year\/2016\/articles\/07-22-million-dollar-gift-engineering-center.htm\" target=\"_new\"><em><strong>Read the News Release here.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Detroit Mercy\u2019s new Center for Automotive Systems Engineering Education (CASEE) has received a major boost with a $1 million gift from William L. Kozyra &#8217;80 in July. \u201cThere is no doubt in my mind that today I have a fabulous career and life as a result of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}