Lee and Shirley Stockton of Troy, Ohio, have made a major gift to the proposed engineering college building. Thus far, $12.3 million of the $15 million goal has been raised or pledged by donors.

The 105,000-square-foot facility will be nearly twice the size of the current Biggs Engineering Building and will feature space for collaboration, class projects and community-building,

Lee Stockton graduated in engineering from ONU in 1961. He spent 43 years working for Price Brothers (now Hanson Pipe and Precast) in Dayton, a company that manufactures concrete products for bridges, pipelines, culverts, sanitary sewers, and floor and roof systems. He retired in 2004 as the senior vice president.