VSPE’s Scholarship Programs a Huge Success!
About 5 years ago, VSPE initiated an EIT / PE Scholarship program that reimbursed PE’s and EIT’s for the fee to take the exam through an application process. The process garnered only two (2) recipients. Last summer, the VSPE Board approved a more streamlined process using our web site, whereby the scholarship recipients could be approved for reimbursement after becoming NSPE members. Since most EIT’s were students, they could enjoy free membership as student members. The VSPE Board awarded over $20,000 in scholarships to over 100 recipients. Our student membership of VSPE grew by this amount as well! We had donations in the VSPE Educational Fund from these programs that contributed.
The Educational Fund Scholarship Program, managed by Richard “Dick” Bidwell, the VSPE Educational Fund Scholarship in Memory of Anthony R. “Tony” Buscemi, PE, and the VSPE Educational Fund Scholarship in Memory of Jack Liedl, PE. In going through our archives, we found that VSPE is part of the Wall of Honor at Old Dominion University through a Tidewater Chapter Endowed Academic Scholarship.
The Eric H “Rick” Bartsch PE Exam Fund received donations and awarded scholarships to PE’s working for the Virginia Department of Health, to encourage licensure among our state Office of Drinking Water staff, and we’ll be reactivating this scholarship program with help from Dixon Tucker, a long-standing member and champion of this sector of PE’s.
Many of our readers know about the Educational Fund’s robust Mathcounts program, and the chapter events and donors are now listed on our web site, in addition to all of the recipients and donors of the above programs. Members have donated to the Virginia Engineers Political Action Committee (VEPAC) and to VSPE, and we have honored those donors, as well as members who donate to various programs during their NSPE dues renewal.
The Board has listed reinstitution of this program a Top Priority for Fiscal year 2020. We need to replenish the scholarship fund in order to accomplish this and keep this dream alive.
Congratulations to our PE Exam Fund and Scholarship recipients – and best of luck in their engineering careers!
Eric H “Rick” Bartsch PE Exam Fund Recipients
Kendra Hardy, Office of Drinking Water
Ernest Johnson, Division of Drinking Water
Satgur Klar, Office of Drinking Water
Mohsen Shahramfar, Office of Drinking Water
VSPE Scholarship Recipients
Dwayne Blai, Old Dominion University
Justin Dominic, Virginia Tech
Christopher Dosier, Virginia Commonwealth University
Gary Gardner, George Mason University
Chase Jones, Virginia Tech
Jame Kim, University of Virginia
VSPE Educational Fund EIT / PE Scholarship Recipients
John Agnor, Virginia Tech
Sean Allen, University of Virginia
Jerome Austin Jr., Old Dominion University
Batzolboo Baatarkhuyag, University of Maryland
Mahdi bahrampouri, Virginia Tech
Jonathan Balderson, Virginia Tech
Stefany Baron, Virginia Tech
Alison Beisner, Virginia Tech
Katherine Bentrem, Virginia Tech
Santosh Bhattarai, Virginia Tech
Kevin Blacka, Virginia Tech
James Blevins, Virginia Tech
Drew Boland, University of Virginia
August Boschert, Duke University
Victoria Bossa, Virginia Tech
Rachel Brodsky, Virginia Tech
Megan Campbell, University of Virginia
Rachel Cannon, Virginia Tech
Jeremy Cates, Virginia Tech
Lucas Colon, Virginia Tech
Samuel Consolvo, Virginia Tech
Christian Contreras, Virginia Tech
Dante Coronado, Virginia Tech
Jessica DeCelie, Virginia Tech
Rachelle Del Rosario, Virginia Tech
Morgan DiCarlo, North Carolina State University
Daniel Dillon, Virginia Tech
Diana Doan, Virginia Tech
Dehua Feng
Emma Field
Emily Garbera, Virginia Tech
Jeffrey Garrison, Old Dominion University
Maddison Gasse, University of Virginia
Prakash Ghimire, Virginia Tech
Kylie Gish, Virginia Tech
Mariah Gnegy, Virginia Tech
Jacob Golub, Virginia Tech
Maxwell Gordon, Virginia Tech
Suraj Gupta Virginia Tech
Jeremy Hanson
Luis Hernandez, Virginia Tech
Zachary Herritt, Virginia Tech
Jason Hoyt, Old Dominion University
David Huff, Virginia Tech
Grace Hughes, Virginia Tech
Charles Jennings, Virginia Tech
Melissa Joye, Virginia Tech
Zachary Judy, Virginia Tech
Alex Juliano, Virginia Tech
August Kahsar, University of Virginia
Tanner Keen, Virginia Tech
Rachel Kizer, Virginia Tech
Roger Knittle, Virginia Tech
Joshua Kobayashi, Virginia Tech
Robert Krantz, Virginia Tech
Grace LaFrance, Virginia Tech
Danielle Lehman, Virginia Tech
Connor Leslie, Virginia Tech
Mia Li, Virginia Tech
Ruidong Li, Virginia Tech
Brian Maloney, Virginia Tech
Madeline Manning, Virginia Tech
Tyler Martin, Virginia Tech
Trent McCaffrey, Virginia Tech
Bryan McCoy, Virginia Tech
Allison McEntee, Virginia Tech
Ben Meseroll, Virginia Tech
Amir Mohammadian, Virginia Tech
Laura Nicaise, Virginia Tech
Palmer Peery, Virginia Tech
Ian Pierce, Virginia Tech
Trevor Pitt, University of Buffalo SUNY
Elisabeth Pittman, Virginia Tech
Andrew Plato, Virginia Tech
Sean Poling, Virginia Tech
Sadie Pope, Virginia Tech
Kathryn Printz, Virginia Tech
Sasha Redmon, Virginia Tech
Wendy Reyes, Virginia Tech
Manab Rijal, Virginia Tech
Jenna Ritchie, Virginia Tech
Jonathan Roach, Virginia Tech
Natalie Rupinski, Virginia Tech
Ahmad Salous, Virginia Tech
Zoe Schmitt, Virginia Tech
James Schrott, Virginia Tech
Jaimie Sheppard, Virginia Tech
Sanjaya Shrestha, Virginia Tech
Zachary Shugart, Virginia Tech
Taylor Sisti, Virginia Tech
Moses Smiroldo, Virginia Tech
Joseph Snead, Virginia Tech
Samantha Srinivasan, Virginia Tech
Kaila Stevens, Virginia Tech
August Stitzel, George Mason University
Grace Thiesse, Virginia Tech
Michael Thomas, Virginia Tech
Delaney Thompson, Virginia Tech
Caleb Wade, Virginia Tech
John Wadsworth, Virginia Tech
Gengrui Wei, Virginia Tech
Paige West, Virginia Tech
Devin Winslow, Old Dominion University
David Woolson, Virginia Tech
Emily Xu, University of Virginia
He Yang,Virginia Tech
Sudikshya Yogi, Virginia Tech