Huffington Post (Canada, Nov. 14) -- Engineering schools are enjoying a remarkable boom at a time when belts are tightening across the post-secondary education sector as a whole. Barely a month goes by in North America without another mega-donation. Earlier this year the University of Illinois received $100 million for engineering programs. A $133 million gift is creating the centrepiece of the new Cornell NYC Tech campus, and only last month the University of Calgary was awarded a government grant of $142.5 million.