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2009-10 Material Handling Education Foundation Scholarship Winner Announced

Monday, August 10, 2009

The Material Handling Education Foundation Inc. (MHEFI) recently announced 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.

2009-10 Scholarship Winners

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 & Controls 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.

MHEFI 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.

In addition to providing scholarships, funds also sponsor grants to faculty and students to attend off-campus industry conferences and seminars directly related to the field of material handling research, to colleges or universities for purchase of classroom instructional aids and lab materials and fellowships for special research.

Since 1976, the Foundation has awarded over $2,000,000 from contributions to fund hundreds of scholarships, faculty/student travel conference grants, instructional aid grants and fellowships. The affairs of the Foundation are administered at the offices of Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA).

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

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