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Scholarships
2003
Scholarship Winners
Ken
Griep, Chair of the Student Activities Committee, announces
the following winners of the Thermoforming Division Scholarships.
These will be presented to the winners at the annual Thermoforming
Conference in Indianapolis.
$5,000 GRIEP
MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
RONALD G. EGRES, JR.,
UNIVERSITY OF DELWARE
Ronald
G.Egres, Jr., the son of Ronald and Diann Egres of Loudon,
TN, is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering at the University
of Delaware. He and his wife Taihi reside in Newark, DE.
He obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan
State University and his M.S. in Chemical Engineering, with
a specialization in polymer engineering, from the University
of Delaware.
As an undergraduate, Ron accepted a co-op position in DuPont's
Telfon Fluroropolymers Division in Parkersburg, WV, where
his research led to a PTFE resin purification technique that
is now patented. While working for his Masters degree at
the University of Delaware, Ron was employed by W.L. Gore
and Associates, Inc. as a product development engineer. He
spent three years developing novel methods for thermoforming
expanded PTFE and melt-preocessable PFA films into large,
high strength products such as flexible connectors, expansion
joints and pinch value liners. Ron hopes to one day start
his own company dedicated to providing unique products to
the medical, chemical, pharmaceutical and microelectronics
industries. He is a member of the SPE. AIChE, and ACS. |
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$5,000
SEGEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
AKASH TULSIAN,
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, LOWELL
Akash
Tulsian, the son of Rajkumar Tulsian of Surat, Gujrat, India,
is enrolled in the Masters of Science in Plastics Engineering
program at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. He obtained
his B.S. from Pune University in India.
Akash's graduate research is an investigation of the effect
of friction and the interaction between the coefficient of
friction and thermoforming quality. The design of experiment
that he has planned investigates the effect of sheet temperature,
plug temperature, and material used to construct the plug-assist
mold. A cricket player at Pune University, Akash currently
mentor undergraduate students in the U-Mass Lowell plastics
engineering program, aids in recruiting new students to the
program and is a member of SPE. |
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The
SPE Foundation annually presents 15-20 scholarships to
full-time undergraduate or graduate students in science,
engineering and related disciplines who show interest
in pursuing a career in the plastics industry. |
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