ASCO Sponsors Engineering Scholarship Program

ASCO Sponsors Engineering Scholarship Program pexels.com In less than a decade, ASCO has awarded $80,000 in scholarships to deserving engineering students making a difference in their field and profession as well as $16,000 in grants to the scholarship recipient’s university engineering department. According to the recent press release, two worthy students in this field will have the opportunity to win a $5,000 scholarship, provide their college’s engineering departments with a $1,000 grant, and to attend “The Amazing Packaging Race” at PACK EXPO International in 2016. The ASCO scholarship will be awarded based on an applicant’s merit, budding leadership achievements, as well as the applicant’s contribution to the industrial automation engineering profession. The panel of ASCO executives and independent judges that will select the finalists are particularly interested in students involved in projects related to the application of fluid control and fluid power technologies. pexels.com Eligible students must be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate program in an instrumentation, systems, electrical, mechanical, or automation engineering discipline at an accredited U.S. educational institution for the 2016/2017 academic year while maintaining at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale. Applicants must also be a U.S. citizen or legal U.S. resident. The application deadline is almost here engineering students have until April 3, 2016 to apply. Details and forms for interested students are available at:  http://www.asco.com/en-us/Pages/scholarship.aspx.