Four University of Texas at Austin engineering students will receive scholarships this year
from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation.
Aerospace engineering sophomore Miguel Cruz and civil engineering seniors Frederico Lozano and Denise Trevino won for the first time this year. Electrical engineering senior Carlos Silva will receive the scholarship for the third year in a row.
The students can use the money for tuition, books or living expenses. They also won trips
to the 2007 HENAAC Conference in San Diego, California. The conference package includes airfare, hotel and registration expenses.
Winners were required to maintain minimum 3.0 grade point averages and had to be of
Hispanic descent or had to have exhibited leadership and service on campus and in the
Hispanic community.
HENAAC is a nonprofit organization that promotes the achievements of Hispanics
in engineering, science, technology, and math. The organization attempts to help
Hispanics in technology by encouraging, enabling, and increasing the number of Hispanic
students pursuing technical degrees. They have been awarding scholarships since 2001.
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About UT's Cockrell School of Engineering:
The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering ranks among the top six public engineering schools in the United States. With the nation's fourth highest number of faculty elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, the School's more than 7,000 students gain exposure to the nation's finest engineering practitioners. Appropriately, the School's logo, an embellished checkmark used by the first UT engineering dean to denote high quality student work, is the nation's oldest quality symbol. The School maintains a Web site at http://www.engr.utexas.edu