Kevin will be a senior at the University of
Wisconsin –
Platteville, where he is pursuing a
B.S. in Industrial Technology Management,
with minors in metals and plastics processing. A serious speed-skater, Kevin is a member of the United States Speedskating Association and the Badger Speedskating club. He is also an active member of the SPE Student Chapter at UWP. Kevin is putting his classroom experience in thermoforming to good use. He is currently working on a package design to hold items to promote UWP’s plastics program to area high schools. The mold is being made by a local company, and will run on the new roll-fed thermoformer the school obtained with help from the Thermoforming Division Equipment Grant. |
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 Kory will be a
senior at Penn State - Erie this
fall, working on his B.S. in Plastics
Engineering
Technology. A Dean’s List student, he
maintains a 3.84 gpa. He was accepted into the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State, which allows him to research any aspect of the plastics industry he chooses. Kory credits being an active member of SPE for the many opportunities he has had at Penn State. Last summer, he was selected
to participate in a Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Southern Mississippi in the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials. While there, he researched a monomer that would provide a drug eluting coating for coronary artery stents, conducted various chemical experiments, and co- authored a paper that was presented at the ACS meeting earlier this year. He presently works for Beaumont Technologies in the R&D department, where he conducts studies on various aspects of runner and gating design.
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7,500 GRIEP MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
TIMOTHY D. MCMASTER
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
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$7,500 DIVISION MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP
LUCAS D. STALLBAUMER
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY |
 Tim McMaster
will be a junior at Pittsburg State this fall, working on his B.S. in Plastics Engineering
Technology. Married and the father of two children, this scholarship will help ease the challenge of supporting a family and getting a degree. Tim works at a custom fiberglass shop that manufactures corrosion
resistant air handling equipment. He has also worked on projects for a thermoforming company in the area, designing molds and selecting materials for the production of various parts. He modified a planter tray that is used to hold soil and grow grass on the roofs of buildings in large inner city areas, and is currently working on a thermoformed LDPE allweather enclosure for industrial wireless networking routers and switches used in warehouse inventory tracking. This replaces a thermoset product that failed, and provides a substantial savings to the customer. Working and attending school full time has required cooperation by Tim’s family and employer – and his desire to succeed shows. He is maintaining a 4.0 gpa in his major!
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 This is the
second year Lucas has received a
scholarship from the Thermoforming
Division. He was also a recipient in
2006. He received
his B.S. in Plastics Engineering
Technology last May from Pittsburg
State University and is a graduate
student at Pittsburg State University, working on his MBA. Lucas had an internship with Joe Peters at Universal Plastics in 2005, where he experienced all kinds of applications from thin gauge to thick gauge, and from drape forming to trap forming. Lucas said he learned all aspects of thermoforming that summer. He works as a plastics lab assistant at Pittsburg, and teaches new students how to use the thermoforming machine. He helped a few seniors with their senior thermoforming projects, and uses thermoforming to make simple prototypes in his part design classes. Lucas plans to get his MBA to make him a more well-rounded job candidate when he graduates in 2008.
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