Abraham “Abe” Francis of Sacramento, California, is one of the first SME Education Foundation scholarship recipients to benefit from the SME Bright Minds Student Mentorship Program.
Multiple scholarships from the SME Education Foundation have been instrumental in the postsecondary education of Benjamin Martin Lipper, a manufacturing engineering student at California Polytechnic State University.
Caitlyn Ulinski, a cybersecurity engineer at General Motors’ Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant, says her SME Education Foundation scholarship was instrumental in helping her get through college and start her career.
A 19-year-old environmental engineering student at Jackson State University
in Mississippi, has been able to attend school debt-free since receiving SME’s $10,000 IQAir
North America Scholarship in Fall 2022.
A recent scholarship from the SME Education Foundation is helping Suraju Lawal, a
41-year-old aircraft mechanic, pursue his dream of being an aviation design engineer.
As one of the first recipients of SME’s new Irving P. McPhail Scholarship, Brayden Miller is pursuing an associate degree in electrical and mechanical engineering at Rose State College. From there, he plans to transfer to a four-year university to get a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.