NCEES awards $245,000 in new scholarship initiative

NCEES is proud to announce that it has awarded $245,000 in scholarships to students in 48 states and the District of Columbia this year in partnership with the ACEC Research Institute. The NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship aims to make engineering and surveying careers and professional licensure more accessible to students and address workforce shortages facing the industries. 

The following are the 2024 recipients of the NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship:

• Grant Watson, Troy University (Alabama)
• James Baisden, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Alaska)
• Aiden Vital, Arizona State University (Arizona)
• Morgan Bates, University of the Pacific (California)
• Jennifer Kinch, Colorado School of Mines (Colorado)
• Sebastian Francis, University of Connecticut (Connecticut)
• Michael Bryant, University of Delaware (Delaware)
• Louis Nwuha, The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.)
• Randy Smith Jr., University of Florida (Florida)
• Roberto Montiel, University of Georgia (Georgia)
• Arron Pacheco, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (Hawaii)
• Clay Campbell, Idaho State University (Idaho)
• John Streck, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois)
• Benjamin Sherlow, Purdue University (Indiana)
• Matthew Flores, Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa)
• Eric Perez Galeana, Kansas State University (Kansas)
• Joel George, University of Louisville (Kentucky)
• Devin Walker, Louisiana State University (Louisiana)
• David Meacher, University of Maine (Maine)
• Glory Ogwu, University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland)
• Vincent Ramirez, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Massachusetts)
• Mason Powell, Ferris State University (Michigan)
• Jace Oldham, Minnesota State University, Mankato (Minnesota)
• Ja’Ree Myers, University of Mississippi (Mississippi)
• Mohammed Daghmoush, University of Missouri Kansas City (Missouri)
• Trevor Owens, Montana Technological University (Montana)
• Zachary McWilliams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Nebraska)
• Luis Llanes, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Nevada)
• Ana Rolfe, University of New Hampshire (New Hampshire)
• Hailey Achille, Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey)
• Christopher Cervantes, New Mexico State University (New Mexico)
• Emma Cesare, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York)
• Kalonji Futrell, North Carolina A&T State University (North Carolina)
• Anders Grimsgard, North Dakota State University (North Dakota)
• Caiden Guzman, University of Dayton (Ohio)
• Brent Bertaux, Oklahoma State University (Oklahoma)
• Emma Owen, Portland State University (Oregon)
• Matthew Griffiths, The Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania)
• Samuel Blume, University of Rhode Island (Rhode Island)
• Elisha Byron, The Citadel (South Carolina)
• Jason Albertson, South Dakota State University (South Dakota)
• Laura Smith, University of Tennessee Knoxville (Tennessee)
• Dion Ramirez, Texas A&M University (Texas)
• Jaxon Hansen, Weber State University (Utah)
• Josephine Alling, The University of Vermont (Vermont)
• Julia Larson, James Madison University (Virginia)
• Isabella Kwan, University of Washington (Washington)
• Connor Mitchell, West Virginia University (West Virginia)
• Raegan Merrill, University of Wyoming (Wyoming)

NCEES Chief Executive Officer David Cox stated, “Professional licensure at its core helps ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the public. By partnering with the ACEC Research Institute on this important scholarship program, we are committing to supporting deserving engineering and surveying students by helping them stay in their programs and on a path to professional licensure.”