Tech Rail Transportation Students Sweep Scholarships
Michigan Tech students won 11 of 23 scholarships awarded this year by the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA).
"Tech students were beyond successful," said Pasi Lautala, director of Michigan Tech's Rail Transportation Program, part of the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute. "Eleven of 14 applicants from Tech received scholarships totaling $17,500. This was almost 50 percent of all AREMA scholarship winners. That is quite beyond imagination," Lautala added.
AREMA is committed to the development and advancement of technical and practical knowledge and recommended practices in the design, construction and maintenance of railway infrastructure. Each year the AREMA Educational Foundation awards scholarships to engineering students who are specializing in the railway industry.
Tech's winners are Shane Ferrell, Daryl Babbitt Jr., Steffanie Pepin, Charles Hoppesch, David Keleher, Gordon Book, Andrew Manty, Matthew Haapala, Brent Marsh, Michael Neuville and Patrick Scheider.
Other universities with 2008 AREMA scholarship winners include Virginia Tech, the University of Illinois, Cornell University, Penn State and Northeastern University.
