Two Boston institutions, the Museum of Science and Northeastern University, will each receive $20 million from the Gordon Foundation in Peabody, Massachusetts, created by Analogic Corporation founder Bernard Gordon and his wife Sophia, the Boston Globe reports.

At the museum, the gift will be used to expand the engineering focus in exhibits and educational programs and to remodel a wing that will house its National Center for Technological Literacy, which seeks to boost engineering curricula in schools. At Northeastern, the funding will support an engineering center, to be renamed the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, and establish a master's program affiliated with the center.

According to Gordon, engineering education has become too specialized, leading to fewer graduates who can see the big picture, and American students have turned toward higher-paying fields. "I've been outspoken about improving our competitive engineering capability, the ability to turn out a project on time, meeting specifications. How could it be that the Romans built aqueducts two thousand years ago that are still standing today, while the ceiling on the Big Dig tunnel came down in two years?"