IEEE-USA recognizes winners of online engineering video scholarship competition for undergraduates

$6,000 in scholarship awards given

Undergraduate engineering students from three universities have been recognized by IEEE-USA for their winning entries in the organization's first "How Engineers Make a World of Difference" online engineering video scholarship competition.

On February 21, during National Engineers Week, IEEE-USA Communications Vice President Paul Kostek announced the winners of $6,000 in scholarship awards: first prize ($2,500) to Ben Toler and Emile Frey of Louisiana Tech University, Ruston; second prize ($2,000) to Yilin Pei of the University of Florida, Gainesville; and third prize ($1,500) to Samuel Chanjaplammootil, Kevin Hooper and Michael Jaco of Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

The three winning entries were deemed most effective in reinforcing for an 11-to-13-year-old audience how engineers are "cool" and improve the quality of life. The three-judge panel included: Andrew Quecan and Suzette Presas, electrical engineering graduate students and IEEE student members at the University of South Florida, Tampa; and Nate Ball, a mechanical engineer and host of PBS' "Design Squad."

IEEE-USA will launch its '08-'09 online engineering video scholarship competition in September.

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To view the winning entries, go to http://www.ieeeusa.org/communications/video_competition/.

IEEE-USA advances the public good and promotes the careers and public-policy interests of more than 215,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE. IEEE-USA is part of the IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society with 370,000 members in 160 countries. See http://www.ieeeusa.org.