John J. McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship
2007 Recipient:
Jessica Weaver Castillo, West Virginia University
Sponsor:
The Dekker Foundation
Description:
Awarded to a chemical engineering undergraduate student (incoming junior or senior only), planning a career in the chemical engineering process industries (CPI.) Selection criteria includes:
1) Minimum 3.0/4.0 GPA; 2) Nominee must be in junior or senior year of a 4-year program in Chemical Engineering or equivalent for a 5-year co-op program; 3) Student must submit a maximum two-page essay outlining career goals in the chemical engineering process industries; 4) The nominee should be a national student member of AIChE; 5) It is preferred/strongly encouraged that the nominee show leadership or activity in either the school’s AIChE Student Chapter or other university sponsored campus activity; 6) Only students attending ABET accredited schools in the US, Canada, and Mexico are eligible; 7) Nomination must be accompanied by a minimum of two letters of recommendation (in English.) One nomination letter must be from the AIChE student chapter advisor. Another letter must be from either a departmental faculty member or a technical work supervisor (internship or REU supervisor). 8) Limited to one nomination per student chapter per year.
Deadline:
May 30, 2008. Print an MS-Word nomination form. If you have additional questions, contact AIChE Awards Administrator, 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016; Ph./Fax: 646-495-1348/646-495-1503; Email: awards@aiche.org
Award:
A certificate and $5,000
Presentation:
The scholarship will be formally presented during the Student Awards Brunch at the Annual Student Conference.
A special recognition to the Cameron family for their contribution to the John J. McKetta Scholarship