2026 Scholarship Recipients
Meet our 2026 scholarship recipients, embodying academic excellence and representing engineering's future leaders.
Shazia Alladin
University of Connecticut
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Vinicio Alvarez
Arizona State University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Arizona
Ava Aube
Hofstra University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - New York
Antonio Avila
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona $10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Giovanni Benevides
University Of Rhode Island
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Rhode Island
Kettja Bennett
University of Nevada Reno
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
$2,000 GeoEngineers, Inc. Scholarship
Truett Berglund
South Dakota State University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - South Dakota
Noah Brobst
University of Pittsburgh
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Pennsylvania
Chase Brown
University of Colorado Boulder
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Colorado
Olivia Cain
Wayne State University $10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Jake Cappelletti
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Wilmer Reyes Ceballo
University of Miami
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Nikolas Chevalier
University Of Mississippi
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Mississippi
Anna Chuchmuch
Texas Tech University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Brayden Clark
Tennessee Tech University
$5,000 The Rob Barrick Impact Scholarship
Angelina Coker
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Nevada
Grady Cox
Tennessee Technological University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Adriana Daroch
Florida Atlantic University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Tyler Davis
University of South Carolina Upstate
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - South Carolina
Maurice Elkhoury
University of Central Florida
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Blake Ferguson
Ferris State University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Hayden Foskett
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
$5,000 WSP Empower Scholarship
Samantha Gable
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Massachusetts
Adam Gadd
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Ada Gauthier
University of Connecticut
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Connecticut
Mark Genest
University of New Hampshire
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - New Hampshire
Lillian George
Brigham Young University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Utah
Sam Gold
University of Southern California
$7,500 Lee Rice LRE Water Scholarship
Tom Goldberg
University of Vermont
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Vermont
Rafael Figueroa Gomez
University of Washington
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Maddy Gorri
Stevens Institute of Technology
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - New Jersey
Glenn Graves
Harding University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Arkansas
Alexander Guajardo
Texas A&M at Galveston
$5,000 The Rob Barrick Impact Scholarship
Sabah Haji
SUNY Polytechnic Institute
$5,000 a/e ProNet ACEC Engineering Scholarship
Beatrice Hardacre
Duke University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - North Carolina
Carina Henneman
Old Dominion University
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Itzel Hernandez
College of Southern Idaho
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Emmerson Hewett
Michigan Technological University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Michigan
Corbin Hibler
Ohio Northern University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Emily Ho
University of Maryland, College Park
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Maryland
Mersaideiz Howard
Howard University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - District of Columbia
Robert Huber
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Tennessee
Justys Hurt
University of Nebraska Lincoln
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Nebraska
Sheimberg Issac
University of Massachusetts Lowell
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Mya Jarvis
Mid Michigan College
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
$5,000 Wade Trim Engineering Scholarship
$2,000 GeoEngineers, Inc. Scholarship
Jonas Junquera
University of Miami
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Molly Keagle
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Alabama
Jacob Kong
University of Hawaii at Manoa
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Hawaii
Joseph Kowall
University of Wisconsin Platteville
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Wisconsin
Jordan Kramer
Kansas State University
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Violeta Krossler
Georgia Institute of Technology
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Ivan Kwong
University of Washington
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Washington
Marichristine Le
Arizona State University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Collin Ledsinger
University of Alabama
$5,000 The Rob Barrick Impact Scholarship
Jaymori Leonard
University of Rhode Island
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
$5,000 WSP Resiliency Scholarship
Sunnie Lin
Drexel University
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Daniel Locarnini
West Virginia University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - West Virginia
Reed Loeffel
Stevens Institute of Technology
$5,000 The Rob Barrick Impact Scholarship
Lydia Lynskey
Colorado School of the Mines
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Maxwell Mamishev
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Illinois
Kael Margraf
Ohio Northern University
$10,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Ohio
Melayna Marshman
Minnesota State University, Mankato
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Minnesota
Yiarely Munoz-Martinez
Virginia Tech
$15,000 Morrissey Goodale Future Leaders Scholarship
Ameya Matele
University of Texas at Austin
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Texas
Ava McKinney
Ohio Northern University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
David McKnight III
University of Wyoming
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Wyoming
Aden Melton
University of Virginia
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Isaac Mendoza
University of California, Berkeley
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Rylee Mogalian
University of Kansas
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Kansas
Amber Murphy
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Vaughan Nagy
University of Anchorage Alaska
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Alaska
Augustus Nedved
St. Ambrose University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Iowa
Jordan Niggemyer
Montana Technological University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Montana
Marcellus Odum
Georgia Institute of Technology
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Georgia
Erik Papp
University of Delaware
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
$5,000 Stanley Consultants, Inc. Helping Hand Scholarship
Emily Petersen
California State University, Fresno
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship
Alex Pokorny
Colorado State University
$5,000 The Rob Barrick Impact Scholarship
Juan Rea
Rutgers University
$2,000 GeoEngineers, Inc. Scholarship
Jacob Rippon
University of Delaware
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Delaware
Kodiak Robinson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Michael Russell
University of North Dakota
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - North Dakota
Evan Segura
University of Texas at Austin
$15,000 Morrissey Goodale STEM Impact Scholarship
Elinor Sinn
University of Kentucky
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Kentucky
Jordan Six
Oklahoma State University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Oklahoma
Aiden Smith
Florida State University
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Samuel Steele
Missouri University of Science and Technology
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Missouri
Mason Storm
University of Idaho
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Idaho
Paisley Tabor
Stanford University
$5,000 J.A. Watts Diversity in Engineering Scholarship
Merrick Tambio
Oregon Institute of Technology
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Owen Tannehill
University of Central Florida
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Kyle Thompson Jr.
Randolph-Macon College
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Virginia
Truong Tran
University of Oklahoma
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Natalie Tremblay
University of Cincinnati
$5,000 alliant Engineering Scholarship
Regina Trifaro
North Carolina State University
$5,000 Stanley Consultants, Inc. Helping Hand Scholarship
Kwabena Tyus
Louisiana State University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Louisiana
Grafton Urbatsch
New Mexico State University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - New Mexico
Grace Vaughan
The University of Alabama
$13,000 College of Fellows Scholar of the Year
Victor Vega
University of the Pacific
$5,000 Kimley-Horn STEM Scholarship (Need-Based)
Sean Hobbs-Waters
Illinois Institute of Technology
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Nathaniel Wigger
Purdue University
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Indiana
Yasmine Wildman
Oregon Institute of Technology
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Oregon
Lucas Kay-Wong
Oregon Institute of Technology
$10,000 IMEG Engineering Scholarship
Justin Woychowski
University of Maine
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Maine
Ashlyn Young
University of Florida
$5,000 NCEES Professional Licensure Scholarship - Florida
Zenia Zipp
California State University, Fresno
$5,000 ACEC Land Surveyors True North Scholarship
Scholarship Fund
The ACEC Research Institute is committed to helping solve our industry’s workforce challenges through scholarships for students pursing engineering degrees. Your monetary support is vital in helping the Institute provide grants to qualified students around the country who are interested in becoming engineers. by sponsoring a scholarship or contributing to the scholarship fund.
Please join us in this mission by contributing to the scholarship fund online or using the donation form to forward a check. If you are interested in creating a named scholarship, please let us know.
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Scholarship Recipient Testimonials
Hear from our past scholarship recipients as they share their transformative experiences and aspirations in engineering.
