ACEC NY awards scholarships to 24 New York engineering students; Zou and Appelle receive ACEC NY Merit Scholarships

Pictured above are the New York metropolitan-area ACEC New York scholarship recipients at the Metro Region luncheon on May 23rd.

New York, NY Twenty-four engineering students attending colleges and universities in NYS will receive $67,500 collectively in scholarships from member firms of the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC NY). Individual awards range from $2,500 to $5,000 and are given based on the students’ cumulative grade-point average, college activities, work experience and essays on consulting engineering.

Since the program’s launch in 2002, ACEC NY has awarded 261 scholarships totaling $708,000. The scholarship program was implemented to support up-and-coming engineers, thereby guaranteeing a strong future for the profession in NYS.

Students attending N.Y. metropolitan-area colleges will be honored at ACEC NY’s membership luncheon on May 23rd at the Union League Club. Students attending upstate colleges will be recognized at the council’s winter conference in Albany on January 28th, 2018. 

Two students were honored with ACEC NY Merit Scholarships, each in the amount of $5,000, at the ACEC NY Engineering Excellence Awards Gala at the Hilton Midtown N.Y. on April 1st. Joanna Zou was given an Award of Merit Scholarship in recognition of the Army Corps of Engineers, N.Y. division, and Aaron Appelle was given an Award of Merit Scholarship in recognition of the New York Building Congress. Awards of Merit are given by ACEC NY to recognize agencies and authorities for outstanding achievements in service to N.Y. communities. In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Engineering Excellence Awards and past Award of Merit winners, a special $5,000 scholarship, underwritten by WSP USA was given to Amanda Harrold. 

Following is a complete list of the 2017 scholarship winners:

• ACEC NY Engineering Excellence 50th Anniversary Scholarship, underwritten by WSP USA - $5,000: Amanda Harrold (Environmental Engineering), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy.

• ACEC NY Merit Scholarship in recognition of the Army Corps of Engineers, New York Division- $5,000: Joanna Zou (Civil Engineering),Columbia University.

• ACEC NY Merit Scholarship in recognition of the New York Building Congress- $5,000: Aaron Appelle (Civil Engineering), Columbia University.

• ACEC NY Eastern Region Scholarship - $2,500: Emily Mahana (Civil Engineering), Syracuse University, Syracuse.

• ACEC NY L.I. Region Scholarship - $2,500 (in memory of Charles Vachris): Ahsan Sandhu (Civil Engineering), Hofstra University, Hempstead.

• ACEC NY Mid-Hudson Region Scholarship - $2,500: Natalie Mottl (Civil Engineering), Cornell University, Ithaca.

• ACEC NY Western Region Scholarship - $2,500: Tyler Langbein (Mechanical Engineering), University at Buffalo, Buffalo.

• AECOM Scholarship - $2,500: Mark Perelmuter (Civil Engineering), The Cooper Union.

• AKF Group LLC Scholarship - $2,500: Maxum Smith (Mechanical Engineering), Columbia University.

• AKRF, Inc. Scholarship - $2,500: Mazen Elashrafi (Civil Engineering, City University of New York.

• Dagher Engineering, PLLC Scholarship - $2,500: Winnie Wong (Mechanical Engineering), SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook.

• HAKS Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors, P.C. Scholarship - $2,500: Stephanie Berrios (Civil Engineering), Columbia University.

• Hazen and Sawyer Scholarship - $2,500: John-Michael D’Andrea (Civil Engineering), Columbia University.

• HDR Scholarship - $2,500: Samantha LoVerme (Civil Engineering), Manhattan College, Riverdale.

• Jaros, Baum & Bolles Scholarship - $2,500: Ariel Golshan (Mechanical Engineering), Hofstra University, Hempstead.

• Langan Engineering, Environmental, Surveying and Landscape Architecture, DPC - $2,500 (In memory of Maria Isabel Ramirez  - 09-11-01): Monte Cardenas-Metal (Civil Engineering), Columbia University.

• Loring Consulting Engineers, Inc. - $2,500: Daniel Sampong (Electrical Engineering), City University of New York.

• Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers Scholarship - $2,500: Arielle Mayourian (Civil Engineering), The Cooper Union, New York.

• Pennoni Engineering and Surveying of New York, LLC Scholarship - $2,500: Jaclyn Marchetta (Chemical Engineering), Manhattan College, Riverdale.

• Sam Schwartz Engineering, D.P.C. Scholarship - $2,500: Kseniya Davydova (Civil Engineering), The City College of New York.

• Stantec Consulting Services Inc. Scholarship - $2,500: Adam Perlmutter (Civil Engineering), Hofstra University, Hempstead.

• STV Group Scholarship - $2,500: LisaMarie Nilaj (Civil Engineering), Manhattan College, Riverdale.

• Syska Hennessy Group, Inc. Scholarship - $2,500: Alexandra Kawecki (Mechanical Engineering), New York Institute of Technology, New York.

Thornton Tomasetti Scholarship - $2,500: Miles Barber (Civil Engineering), The Cooper Union, New York.

ACEC New York is a proactive coalition of 280 firms representing every discipline of engineering related to the built environment—civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, environmental, geotechnical—and affiliated companies. Our shared goals are to further the business interests of our membership, enhance the quality and safety of the environment we live and work in, and help ensure the vitality of our communities. For more information, visit www.acecny.org.