Educational awards announced

The winners of the 2013 ISA Educational Foundation Scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to college and university students who demonstrate outstanding potential to make lasting contributions in the fields of automation, instrumentation and control. The scholarship awards support tuition, related expenses, research activities and initiatives.

The scholorships awarded in District 12 were all to students of St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation. The awardees were.

Mikhail Vaganov — $524
Rusian Khansuvarov — $524
Vadim Nenashev — $524

Congratulations to all on this achievement.

ISA awarded a total of $67,267, which was distributed among undergraduate students in two-year and four-year colleges and universities, and to graduate students. 

The other awardees from throughout the world are as follows:

Paul McVay
Colorado School of Mines
Total Scholarship — $4,400
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $4,000; District 9 — $440)

Adam Lennartz
University of Cincinnati
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $3,316; Executive Board — $879; Daris & Gerald Willbanks Endowment — $805)

Elisabeth Spires
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(General Education Endowment Fund — $3,350; Huston Endowment — $398; FPID Endowment — $252)

Neel Shah
Northeastern University
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $2,491; General Education Endowment Fund — $405; Bob & Mary Ives Endowment — $104)

Jake Schmidt
University of Toledo
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $4,127; ChemPID Endowment Fund — $873)

Jayant Bhatia
Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology (SCET)
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(Para-Digiquartz Endowment — $2,000; Life Members Endowment Fund — $1,000)

Lawrence Norris
Lee College
Total Scholarship — $3,405
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $3,405)

Troy Riddle
Lee College
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $4,000)

Sandie Gilliland
Kenai Peninsula College
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $3,960; Life Members Endowment Fund — $40)

Chin Gian Hooi
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)
Total Scholarship — $5,011
(FPID Endowment — $3,000; District 11 — $1,011; Student Activities Endowment Fund — $1,000)

John Pritchard
Iowa State University
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(Bob & Mary Ives Endowment — $2,000; Life Members Endowment Fund — $1,000)

Matthew Sheen
Cornell University
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(General Education Endowment Fund — $2,000; Student Activities Endowment Fund — $2,000; Huston Endowment — $1,000)

Jiabiao Ruan
University of Houston
Total Scholarship — $2,705
(District 7 — $2,705)

Anand Govindarajan
Oklahoma State University
Total Scholarship — $3,000
(ChemPID Endowment Fund — $3,000)

Upasana Manimegalai
Oklahoma State University
Total Scholarship — $5,000
(Student Activities Endowment Fund — $5,000)

Aditya Tulsyan
University of Alberta
Total Scholarship — $4,000
(Huston Endowment — $4,000)

• Awards by District

District 3 scholarship
Raymond Perez — $630
Palm Beach State University

District 5 scholarships
Emanuel Jones — $431
Lawrence Technological University
Stephen Maloney — $431
University of Dayton

District 7 scholarship
Jiabiao Ruan — $2,705 (included above)
University of Houston

District 8 scholarship
Suresh Jayaraman — $642
Oklahoma State University

District 9 scholarship
Paul McVay — $440 (included above)
Colorado School of Mines

District 11 scholarship
Chin Gian Hooi — $1,011 (included above)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)

District 12 scholarships
Mikhail Vaganov — $524
Rusian Khansuvarov — $524
Vadim Nenashev — $524
St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation