2008 - 2009 Scholarship Winners

The Board of Directors of the Material Handling Education Foundation Inc. (MHEFI) announces its 2008-2009 Scholarship Winners. This year, thirty-one students at nineteen universities will receive a total of $82,500 in scholarship funds. This continued MHEFI's thirty-two-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.

Paul Lynch Ray Gibson Memorial Scholarship $9,000	Kevin Rahardja Tompkins Associates Honor Scholarship $6,000	Jennifer Pazour Frazier Industrial Honor Scholarship $5,000	Letitia Pohl Tiffin Metal Honor Scholarship $5,000
Rebecca McCardle RMI Honor Scholarship $5,000	Gabriel Burnett MHIA AS/RS Product Section Honor Scholarship $4,000	Mario Cornejo MHIA ISC Product Section Honor $4,000	James Chason MHEDA Honor Scholarship $4,000
Soondo Hong MHIA Order Fullfillment Council $4,000	Jeremy Spencer MHEDA Honor Scholarship $4,000	Brad Blackman MHEFI Industry Leaders Honor Scholarship $3,000	Seth Hostetler MHIA SMA Honor Scholarship $3,000
Nichole Hillstrom MHEFI Honor Scholarship $2,500	Mingshu Deng MMH Magazine Honor Scholarship $2,500	Sharethram Hariharan Demag Cranes & Components Honor Scholarship $2,500	Jared Ray Townsley Unarco Material Handling Honor Scholarship $2,500
Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan Aly HMI & MMA Honor Scholarship $2,100	Kelly Lynn Delpome MHIA CSS Product Section Honor Scholarship $2,000	Michelle Marie Woeste MHIA AGVS Product Section Honor Scholarship $2,000	Bradley Warren Fouse Ridg-U-Rak Honor Scholarship $2,000
Alexander Hagedorn MHIA LODEM Product Section Honor Scholarship $1,500	Annaji Sharma Ammu HK Systems Honor Scholarship $1,500	Zohar Mala Aliya Chicagoland Chapter of MHMS Honor Scholarship $1,500	Erin Lynn Jackson Hanel Storage Systems Honor Scholarship $1,500
Zeynep Kirkizoglu Southworth International Group Honor Scholarship $1,500	Katherine Gatz Steel King Industries Honor Scholarship $1,500	Brook Rucinski Bushman Equipment Honor Scholarship $1,500	Ryan Rygiel Hytrol Honor Scholarship $1,500
Brittany Marie Wingfield Lee Wood Honor Scholarship $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.