![Jan van den Top in the newly renamed Jan van den Top Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Lab in the EIB.](/academics/college-of-engineering/_images/Jan-van-den-Top.jpg)
Just warming up: Engineering alum reinvests in UAA's future
February 9, 2022
At a small, masked ceremony on the third floor of the Engineering and Industry Building
in December 2021, UAA’s chancellor, the College of Engineering’s (CoEng) dean and
others gathered to rename the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Lab
in honor of Jan van den Top, a 1973 Master of Science in engineering alumnus, whose
generous endowment will enable UAA’s mechanical engineering program to remain on the
cutting edge of teaching and research. In fact, this endowment is the latest in a
long line of investments he has made in UAA, and is an example of a philosophy that
has been one of van den Top’s guiding principles.