2009 - 2010 Scholarship Winners

The Board of Directors of the Material Handling Education Foundation Inc. (MHEFI) announces its 2009-2010 Scholarship Winners. This year, thirty-two students will receive a total of $95,100 in scholarship funds. This continued MHEFI's thirty-three-year tradition of support to enterprising students at universities instructing in material handling and logistics sciences.

For more information about these outstanding students or how your company can sponsor a scholarship grant, please contact Victoria Wheeler, MHEFI Executive Director, at 704/676-1190 or email vwheeler@mhia.org.

Jennifer Bolton Demag Cranes & Components Honor $2,500	Kyle Bowen Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA) Honor $3,000	Patrick Brunese Tompkins Associates Honor $6,000	Wade Foster Lift Manufacturers Product Section (LIFT) Honor $1,500
Russell Glahn Toyota Material Handling, USA, Inc. Honor $2,500	Terrence Goeldner Automatic Guided Vehicle Systems Product Section (AGVS) Honor $2,000	Scott Groh Integrated Systems & Contols Council Honor $4,000	Xiaoyan Guo Steel King Industries Honor $2,000
Ahmed Hassan Aly Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) Honor $3,000	Steven Heim Hoist Manufacturers Institute (HMI) & Monorail Manufacturers Association (MMA) Honor $2,100	Seth Hostetler Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA) Honor $3,000	Daniel Jeng Hanel Storage Systems Honor $2,000
Aditya Joshi Loading Dock Equipment Manufacturers (LODEM) Honor $1,500	Zeynep Kirkizoglu Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) Honor $3,000	Jayson Kolb Frazier Industrial Honor $5,000	Kirsten Lacksonen Order Fulfillment Council Honor $4,000
Amanda Laney Southworth International Honor $1,500	Aisyah Larasati Conveyor & Sortation Systems Product Section Honor $2,000	Kerry Melton Storage Equipment Manufacturers Association (SMA) Honor $3,000	Daniel Miner Tiffin Metal Products Honor $5,000
Jennifer Pazour Ray Gibson Memorial $9,000	Brad Peot Material Handling Education Foundation Honor $2,500	Jonathan Proule Material Handling Education Foundation Honor $2,500	Debjit Roy Automated Storage & Retrieval Product Section (AS/RS) Honor $4,000
Ryan Rygiel Hytrol Conveyor Honor $1,500	Akkarapol Sa-ngasoongsong St. Onge Company Honor $2,500	Bryan Smith Chicagoland Chapter of the Materials Handling Management Society $1,500	Patrice Stalvig Don Schrader Memorial $1,500
Michael Stroka Spanco Honor $5,000	Katherine Tepper HK Systems Honor $2,500	Lisa Thomas Ridg-U-Rak Honor $2,500	Ellyn Weston Gorbel Honor $1,500

MHEFI scholarships, sponsored by Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA) member companies, are awarded each year to students dedicated to entering the material handling and logistics field, either within our member companies or the user community.

Awardees are pursuing educational goals that will enable them to enter the industry as engineers, project managers, management and professors in material handling and logistics. Many will be employed by end-users, by manufacturers or in MHIA member companies.

The Material Handling Education Foundation, Inc. was established in 1976 as an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging and supporting material handling education.

The Foundation offers a variety of scholarships to students pursuing an education in material handling. These scholarships are grouped into three types of funds: Company Funds, Named Scholarship Funds and Material Handling Industry Product Section/Trade Association Funds. Contributors can choose a particular fund or an individual scholarship. The affairs of the Foundation are administered at the offices of Material Handling Industry of America.

For more information on how you can participate in the efforts of the Foundation, please contact Victoria Wheeler, Executive Director at 704-676-1190 or vwheeler@mhia.org.