Scholarship Winners

Spring 2021 Scholarship Winners

Zarina George

Field of Study: Architecture with a focus in Urban Planning at the University of the District of Columbia

Future Aspirations: As a professional pursuing a career in Architecture and Urban Sustainability, I aspire to design and develop sustainable, net-zero low to medium-income communities that encourage inclusion and togetherness. With the goal of providing sustainable housing for every socioeconomic level, micro-housing, amenity walkability, and urban farming will be just a few of the features I plan to focus on.

Favorite Quote: Design is where science and art break even. - Mieke Gerritzen

Gustavo Gutierrez

Field of Study: Construction Management at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Future Aspirations: I aim to become a leader in construction who creates sustainable solutions in the industry. I also want to effectively teach others technical skills necessary for their success. By implementing the skills I learn, I can improve the infrastructure in buildings to help businesses grow and lead better lives.

Favorite Quote: "If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories." - Richard M. Nixon

Adriana Diaz

Field of Study: Construction Management with a Minor in Business Administration at Bradley University

Future Aspirations: I am passionate to strive and become a professional woman in the construction industry. I look forward to develop my knowledge in the construction industry and become a project engineer/project manager and leader in the construction industry. I look forward everday to graduate and become a professional in my career and one day help the next generation of students have the same passion for construction as I do.

Favorite Quote: "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton.

Fall 2020 Scholarship Winners

Joel Hernandez

Field of Study: Civil Engineering with a focus on Construction, University of Arizona

Future Aspirations: I want to be a project manager while having the technical aptitude to be able to exceed expectations.

Favorite Quote: "The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it." - John C. Maxwell

Hope Huang

Field of Study: Civil Engineering at University of California, Berkeley

Future Aspirations: Eventually becoming a project manager in the transportation engineering field

Favorite Quote: "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -William James

Spring 2020 Scholarship Winners

Elsa A. Moreno Rangel

Field of Study: B.S. Construction Engineering Management at Oregon State University

Future Aspirations: As a future professional in the construction industry, I want to develop social and economic infrastructure for low-income and rural communities, and innovate the way in which public spaces, nursing homes, mental health, and medical facilities are designed and built. My top interests in construction are: accessibility, wellness, and sustainability. By implementing these practices, I want to ensure that anyone regardless of age or disability has the same opportunity of moving freely and comfortably around spaces that provide them with comfort and emotional well-being. I want to use construction as a path to equity and community development, and I am positive that my education in construction engineering management will allow me to turn my vision into a reality.

Favorite Quote: "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." - Joel A. Barker

Nedda Yazdani

Field of Study: Construction Management; Environmental Studies; Geographic Information Systems at Texas A&M University

Future Aspirations: Project management in construction & community development

Favorite Quote: "We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions." - Shoghi Effendi

Allie Stephens

Field of Study: Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Future Aspirations: I plan to work for the Peace Corps or another volunteer organization abroad for a few years, hopefully overseeing structural or sanitation/public health projects. After this, I would like to work in project controls or construction management.

Favorite Quote: “This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

Fall 2019 Scholarship Winners

Natalie Moore

Field of Study: Civil Engineering with a minor in Sustainability, Energy and the Environment

Future Aspirations: To work in planning and development or project management, specifically in cost engineering

Favorite Quote: "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." -John Steinback

Michael Roshel

Field of Study: Civil Engineering at University of Kentucky

Future Aspirations: To become a project manager, get my PE and then eventually start my own firm.

Favorite Quote: "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bailey Rouse

Field of Study: Civil Engineering at University of Kentucky

Future Aspirations: Working in construction management back in my home state of Colorado

Favorite Quote: “When times are tough, be tougher." - C.M. Stunich

Spring 2019 Scholarship Winners

Eric Beason

Field of Study: Construction Management at John Brown University

Future Aspirations: I want to become a construction manager and oversee commercial building projects such as schools and businesses. More importantly, I want to use my work as an opportunity to spread God’s love, grace, and forgiveness to the world.

Favorite Quote: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” -Isaiah 41:10

Esther Daramola

Field of Study: Civil Engineering with Business Minor at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Future Aspirations: I want to lead a team engineers in a company and make my own lip gloss line.

Favorite Quote: "If you don't love yourself how the h*** you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen!" -RuPaul

Grace Stackowitz

Field of Study: Civil Engineering at Manhattan College

Future Aspirations: I am interested in the field of construction and hope to become a Project Engineer working on site.

Favorite Quote: "What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create." –Buddha

Fall 2018 Scholarship Winners

Ryan Cole

Field of Study: Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison

Future Aspirations: I hope to find a career in either construction management or transportation engineering.

Favorite Quote: "I don't know anybody so old he can't do something useful. Just give them a chance and see." -Henry Ford

Jesse Mallard

Field of Study: Construction Management, with an emphasis in Applied Energy & Sustainable Systems, at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Future Aspirations: I plan to start my career with a well established, innovative company to gain experience in the industry. I also hope to have my own Construction Management firm in the future.

Nguyen Le

Field of Study: Ph.D. candidate in Construction Management at Arizona State University.

Future Aspirations: I want to become a Construction faculty to bring innovative ideas developed from the U.S. to leverage construction practices and education in developing countries.

Favorite Quote: “The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence” - Philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti

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