SPE Foundation Announces 2022 Scholarship Recipients
Each student has demonstrated or expressed an interest in the plastics industry. They are all majoring in or taking courses that would be beneficial to a career in the plastics industry, including, but not limited to, plastics engineering, polymer science, chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, journalism or communications.
Altogether, the SPE Foundation helped award 77 scholarships totaling $191,875 to 51 students for 2022.
Winner | Amount | Scholarship | University | Degree Program | Class Level |
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$8,000 | Recycling Division Scholarship, Western Plastics Pioneers George Epstein Scholarship, PPA Neward Scholarship | Western Washington University | Plastics & Composites Engineering | Senior |
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$1,500 | Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship | Rutgers University | Mechanical Engineering | 5th Year Bachelor's/ Masters |
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$2,500 | Extrusion Division Ed Steward Scholarship | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Chemical Engineering | Freshman |
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$2,500 | Flexible Packaging Division Scholarship | Pittsburg State University | Plastics Engineering | Senior |
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$1,500 | Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship | University of Akron | Polymer Chemistry | Graduate Student |
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$5,000 | Extrusion Division Lew Erwin Scholarship | Queens University | Chemical Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$6,750 | Injection Molding Division Scholarship, Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship, PPA Knaus Family Scholarship | Ferris State University | Plastics Engineering Technology | Junior |
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$1,000 | SPE Foundation Fleming-Blaszcak Scholarship | Ferris State University | Plastics Engineering Technology | Senior |
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$7,000 | Extrusion Division Lew Erwin Scholarship, Salvatore J. Monte Thermoplastic Material & Foams Division Scholarship | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Plastics Engineering | Masters |
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$5,000 | SPE Foundation General Scholarship, PPA Scholarship | Northeastern University | Mechanical Engineering | Senior |
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$2,500 | Flexible Packaging Division Scholarship | Michigan State University | Packaging Science | Senior |
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$5,500 | Extrusion Division Russell Gould Scholarship, PPA M. Holland Company Scholarship | Drexel University | Materials Science & Engineering | Senior |
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$1,500 | Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship | University of Akron | Polymer Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$3,500 | Composites Division Harold Giles Scholarship | Winona State University | Chemistry/Composites Engineering | Freshman |
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$2,000 | Automotive & Composites Division ACCE Scholarship | University of Tennessee-Knoxville | Materials Science & Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$8,000 | Extrusion Division Russell Gould Scholarship, Flexible Packaging Division Scholarship, PPA Plastics411 Scholarship | University of Wisconsin-Stout | Plastics Engineering | Senior |
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$5,000 | SPE Foundation General Scholarship, Western Plastics Pioneers Mike Friend Scholarship | Western Washington University | Plastics & Composites Engineering | Senior |
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$2,125 | SPE Foundation Art Haas Scholarship | University of Michigan | Materials Science & Engineering | Junior |
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$1,000 | Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship | Ferris State University | Plastics Engineering Technology | Senior |
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$3,000 | PPA Scholarship | South Dakota State University | Mechanical Engineering | Senior |
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$5,000 | Salvatore J. Monte Thermoplastic Materials & Foams Division Scholarship, PPA Scholarship | Pennsylvania College of Technology | Plastics & Polymer Engineering | Junior |
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$5,000 | Extrusion Division Lew Erwin Scholarship | Queens University | Chemical Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$2,000 | SPE Foundation Detroit Section Irv Poston | Case Western Reserve University | Macromolecular Science & Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$2,000 | SPE Foundation General Scholarship | University of Utah | Materials Science & Engineering | Junior |
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$2,000 | Automotive & Composites Division ACCE Scholarship | University of Akron | Polymer Science | Graduate Student |
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$1,000 | Thermoplastics Elastomers Technical Interest Group Scholarship | Case Western Reserve University | Macromolecular Science & Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$1,000 | Thermoplastics Elastomers Technical Interest Group Scholarship | University of Michigan | Materials Science & Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$6,000 | Thermoplastics Elastomers Technical Interest Group Scholarship, SPE Foundation Gail Bristol Scholarship, PPA Clare Goldsberry Scholarship | Case Western Reserve University | Macromolecular Science & Engineering | 5th Year Bachelor's/Masters |
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$2,500 | Automotive & Composites Division Jackie Rehkopf Scholarship | Clemson University | Mechanical Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$4,000 | Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship, PPA Lone Star Scholarship | Baylor University | Mechanical Engineering | Junior |
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$3,000 | Robert Cramer Product Design & Development Division Scholarship, Pittsburgh Section Scholarship | Penn State Erie | Plastics Engineering Technology | Senior |
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$1,000 | SPE Foundation Gulf Coast Hurricane Scholarship | Auburn University | Mechanical Engineering | Senior |
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$5,000 | SPE Foundation General Scholarship, PPA Don Family Scholarship | Colorado School of Mines | Metallurgical & Materials Engineering | Freshman |
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$8,500 | Flexible Packaging Division Scholarship, PPA W. Muller Scholarship, Blow Molding Division Willi Muller Scholarship | Shawnee State University | Plastics Engineering Technology | Senior |
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$5,000 | Extrusion Division Lew Erwin Scholarship | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Mechanical Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$5,125 | SPE Foundation Detroit Section Tom Powers Scholarship, PPA Richard Hoeske Family Scholarship | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Mechanical Engineering | Senior |
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$2,000 | SPE Foundation Crain Communications Bill Bregar Memorial Scholarship | Pittsburg State University | Communications | Senior |
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$6,500 | Extrusion Division Russell Gould Scholarship, Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship, PPA Daniel Mohs Family/Placon Corporation Scholarship | University of Notre Dame | Chemical Engineering | Senior |
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$5,125 | SPE Foundation Detroit Section Norm Kakarala Scholarship, PPA Donald Williams Scholarship | University of Akron | Chemical Engineering | Senior |
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$10,000 | Donald McCoy Chicago SPE Scholarship | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Mechanical Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$2,000 | SPE Foundation General Scholarship | Shawnee State University | Plastics Engineering Technology | Senior |
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$5,000 | SPE Foundation Charles Carlson Scholarship, PPA Wylie Royce Scholarship | Ferris State University | Plastics Engineering Technology | Senior |
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$1,500 | Cleveland Section Scholarship | Case Western Reserve University | Macromolecular Science & Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$8,125 | SPE Foundation Detroit Section Robert Dailey Scholarship, Western Plastics Pioneers Modified Plastics, Inc. Scholarship, PPA Scholarship | Western Washington University | Plastics & Composites Engineering | Senior |
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$1,500 | Polymer Modifier & Additives Division Scholarship | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Plastics Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$2,000 | SPE Foundation Detroit Section Irv Poston Scholarship | University of Akron | Polymer Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$3,000 | PPA Swain Scholarship | Rose Hulman Institute of Technology | Chemical Engineering | Junior |
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$2,125 | SPE Foundation Carl Haas Scholarship | Kettering University | Industrial Engineering | Junior |
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$6,000 | Automotive & Composites Division Jackie Rehkopf Scholarship, Composites Division Harold Giles Scholarship | University of Tennessee-Knoxville | Mechanical Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$2,000 | Recycling Division Scholarship | Nanyang Technological University | Materials Science & Engineering | Graduate Student |
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$2,000 | Automotive & Composites Division ACCE Scholarship | Clemson University | Automotive Engineering | Graduate Student |