Supporting Current and Future Electrical Engineers

“We have a blessed life thanks to the education we received at Tech, and we want to pay it forward”

Laura and Dave both earned electrical engineering degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where Laura also earned a master's degree in the discipline. Dave, enrolled in a five-year, dual-degree program, completed both an electrical engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a physics degree from Georgetown College in Kentucky in 1980.

Laura and Dave have established a generous estate provision to benefit the Institute. "We hope to support amazing students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering," Dave says.

"We have a blessed life thanks to the education we received at Tech, and we want to pay it forward," Laura says.

Laura worked as director of product management at Lucent for several years before earning her J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 2008. Currently, she is a senior attorney with King & Spalding specializing in intellectual property. Dave was chief scientist with L3 Technologies Inc. until his retirement in 2010.

Another generation of Huffmans has also found an educational home at the Institute. Their son, Matthew D. Huffman, NE '19, was "a proud four-year member of the Yellow Jacket Marching Band who is now in graduate school at Tech," Laura says.

The combination of Matthew's graduation, Dave's retirement, and a big reunion year influenced the Huffmans' decision to establish the estate provision.

"This is our 40th reunion, and it was time to step up and increase our commitment to Tech," Dave says.

If you would like to commit to Georgia Tech with a gift for the future, please contact Gift Planning at 404.894.4678 or giftplanning@dev.gatech.edu to get started.