USC College of Engineering gets new name after $30M donation

COLUMBIA — The University of South Carolina is naming its engineering college the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing after a $30 million donation from former Johnson Controls CEO Alex Molinaroli and his family. Molinaroli graduated from USC with a degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1983 and began working at Johnson Controls' Columbia office soon after. He worked his way up to serving as the company's CEO from 2013 to 2017. In South Carolina, he most notably oversaw the opening of a battery recycling plant in Florence. Then...