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Bucky and Bryce Vieth scholarship night
October 27, 2022

Record $789,620 in scholarships awarded to Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students

Written By: Caitlin Scott

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In fall 2022, the Mechanical Engineering department and the College of Engineering awarded a combined 234 students a total of $789,620 in scholarship funding. These awards came from 116 different scholarship funds and the amount is a $300,000 increase over recent years. This is the most our department has given out in the history of our program.

At our Scholarship Night event on October 13, we were joined by Mechanical Engineering students, their families and friends, and some of the donors who made this historic moment possible.

  • Sally Ferguson representing the Richard T. and Kathryn S. Voelz Scholarship
  • Sue and Tim Lebrun representing the Evelyn Knoke Kullerstrand Women and Diversity Scholarship
  • Emi Uyehara and Alan and Kathy Muirhead representing the Uyehara-Myers Scholarship Fund
  • Alan and Kathy Muirhead representing the Gary and Marlene Borman Scholarship
  • Fred Elder representing the Douglas T. Reindl Scholarship
  • William Holmberg representing the William Holmberg Fund for Mechanical Engineering
  • Amelia Cosgrove Thomas representing the Robert J. Troller and Amelia Cosgrove Thomas Scholarship Fund
  • Burzoe Ghandhi and Jaal Ghandhi representing the Nancy F. Ghandhi Women in Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
  • Kris and Leslie Dressler representing the Kris Dressler STAR Scholarship

We’re grateful to everyone involved in our scholarship processes, especially the many donors, past and present, who were unable to be with us in person. It’s especially exciting that the College of Engineering has focused $20 million of funding from the 2020 Grainger Foundation pledge on the Strategic Targeted Achievement Recognition (STAR) scholarship program. Additional thanks to our academic specialist Kassi Sprecher, our communications specialist Caitlin Scott and the Undergraduate Program Committee reviewed the many scholarship applications: Tom Krupenkin, Peter Adamczyk, Franklin Miller, and Sage Kokjohn.

Prof. Kris Dressler with the inaugural Dressler STAR scholarship recipient Jude Stephenson.
Prof. Kris Dressler with the inaugural Dressler STAR scholarship recipient Jude Stephenson.
Read about the Dressler STAR fund, announced in April 2022.

Women in mechanical engineering scholarship recipients
Women in Mechanical Engineering scholarship honorees
Troller and Amelia Cosgrove Thomas Scholarship 2022
Amelia Cosgrove Thomas with the Robert J. Troller and Amelia Cosgrove Thomas Scholarship recipient Elle Cooper.
Uyehara-Myers Scholarship 2022
Kathy Muirhead and Emi Uyehara with one of the Myers-Uyehara scholarship recipients, Joseph Stoa.
Kullerstrand scholarship 2022
Sue and Tim Lebrun with the Evelyn Kullerstrand Women and Diversity Scholarship recipient Molly Teske.
Ghandhi scholarship
Burzoe and Jaal Ghandhi with the recipients of the Nancy F. Ghandhi Women in Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
Borman scholarship recipient 2022
Kathy and Allan Muirhead with Gary and Marlene Borman Scholarship recipient Jinglun Qu.
Douglas T. Reindl Scholarship, Fred Elder
Prof. Fred Elder with the Douglas T. Reindl Scholarship recipients Henry Huth and Antone Posselt
Uyehara-Myers family
Kathy Muirhead and Emi Uyehara share remarks about their fathers, Profs. Myers and Uyehara.
Bryce Vieth non traditional scholarship
Bryce Vieth (& son!) received the Jared W. DeBruin Non-Traditional Scholarship.
ME Faustin Prinz recipients
Darryl Thelen with Faustin-Prinz Research Fellowship recipients: William Dong, Griffin Radtke, Jon Carlson, and Tyler Lee.
ME development directors with Bucky

Anyone interested in contributing to our scholarship programs can reach out to our Directors of Development Caroline Sullivan and Brad Green.

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