United Rentals to Sponsor Boise State College of Engineering’s Construction Management Program
United Rentals has announced a five-year sponsorship agreement with Boise State’s College of Engineering to support the Construction Management program as the “Official Equipment Rental Partner of Boise State Construction Management,” the Boise State News reported.
The sponsorship will provide essential construction equipment for the program’s new facility, including access to commercial trucks and warehouse forklifts.
“I couldn’t be more excited about what this partnership means for our students,” Anthony Perrenoud, the William H. McMurren Endowed Chair of Construction Management, said in the Boise State News. “United Rentals’ equipment support will directly enhance our hands-on lab curriculum and allow us to expand the community projects our program has become so well known for. This is industry and education working together to build something great: the next generation of construction professionals.”
This new agreement, formalized in June by Ryan Eaton, vice president of United Rentals’ Midwest Region, and the Boise State University Foundation, includes co-branding opportunities on university-loaned equipment and internal signage in the equipment building, the News said. United Rentals will also provide educational collaborations and training opportunities for Construction Management students.
“Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with many great leaders who came through Boise State’s Construction Management program,” said United Rentals’ Midwest Region vice president Ryan Eaton in a quote by the Boise State News. “Seeing the impact these graduates have made across our industry makes this partnership especially meaningful. We are proud to support the construction management program and help provide students with the hands-on experience, equipment and connections that will prepare them to lead the future of construction.”
To read the entire story, visit: https://www.boisestate.edu/news/2026/07/07/united-rentals-partners-with-boise-state-to-support-thriving-construction-management-program/
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.