2014-2015 PES Scholars

One hundred and eighty-four (184) PES Scholarship recipients were selected from the 590 individuals who applied for the scholarship. These undergraduate students are majoring in electrical engineering, are high achievers with strong GPAs with distinctive extracurricular commitments and are committed to exploring the power and energy field. These scholarships were distributed through the IEEE Foundation, IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Fund, which is used to support the IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative.

Below is a list of the 2014-2015 recipients by IEEE region, including their names, schools and expected graduation year.

* These students are third-year scholars, having been selected to receive the scholarship for a third time.

Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.)

• Rose Abramson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
• Ali Akhtar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2015*
• Farjad Alam, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 2016
• Alyssa Bezreh, Northeastern University, 2016
• Arnold Chang, Northeastern University, 2017
• Truman Chojnowski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2017
• Adriana Cisco, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 2016
• Kevin Conroy, University of Maine, 2016
• Fabio Dallorto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015
• Matthew Dore, Western New England College, 2015
• Benjamin Franco, Wentworth Institute of Technology, 2016
• Jeremy Giguere, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2015*
• Theodore Graves, Stony Brook University, 2016
• Drew HasBrouck, Northeastern University, 2018
• Matthew Hildreth, Clarkson University, 2015
• Ian Jacobsen, Stony Brook University, 2016
• Aaron Lim, University of Rochester, 2017
• Stanly Mathew, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2016
• Michael McCann, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2017
• Diego Mendoza, Suffolk University, 2016
• Sydnee Mizuno, Northeastern University, 2018
• Albner Molina, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, 2015
• Martin Myszynski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2015
• Emily Pankosky, Northeastern University, 2017
• Marissa Petersile, Boston University, 2015
• Jorge Rodriguez, Suffolk University, 2016
• Joshua Ryan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015
• Ryan Thorne State University of New York at Buffalo, 2015*
• Julia Truong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2016
• Jeremy Warner, University of Rochester, 2015
• Jeffrey Wood, Suffolk University, 2017
• David Ye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015*
• Mariya Zagalskaya, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2017

Region 2 (Eastern U.S.)

• Tim Androwick, Drexel University, 2016
• Jamison Arline, Ohio State University, 2015
• Christine Bocci, Cleveland State University, 2016
• Jeffrey Eker, Rowan University, 2016
• Kelly Fernandez, University of Maryland, College Park, 2016
• Reid Flasinski, Drexel University, 2015*
• Nicholas Gangi, Drexel University, 2016
• Zachary Geesey, Drexel University, 2015
• Stephen Hebenstreit, Drexel University, 2017
• Jamie Howard, Drexel University, 2015*
• Matt Marcou, Drexel University, 2017
• Benjamin McCray, Ohio State University, 2015
• Matt McPhail, University of Pennsylvania, 2015*
• Redle Michael, University of Akron, 2015*
• Jared Newman, Cedarville University, 2016
• Herve Nyirinkwaya, University of Pittsburgh, 2015
• David Scherer, Ohio State University, 2015
• Mary Scherer, Ohio State University, 2017
• Jacob Simon, Temple University, 2015
• Mario Squicciarini, Drexel University, 2017
• Jacob Tyo, West Virginia University, 2015*
• Shauna Walters, Drexel University, 2015
• Matthew Wolfe, Ohio State University, 2016
• Gregory Yeutter, Drexel University, 2015*
• Emmeline Zhu, University of Maryland, College Park, 2015*

Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.)

• Jordan Adams, North Carolina State University, 2016
• Allan Bartlett, University of Kentucky, 2016
• William Bledsoe, University of South Carolina, 2015*
• Oceane Boulais, Florida Atlantic University, 2017
• Sokrat Bufi, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015*
• Daniel Cambron, University of Kentucky, 2015*
• Summer Church, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2017
• Turner Cotterman, Clemson University, 2015
• Cara DeCoste, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2015
• Jordan Ehren, University of Florida, 2015*
• Heinrich Enslin, North Carolina State University, 2015*
• Wesley Johnson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2015
• James Kirkpatrick, University of Kentucky, 2016
• Habeeb Kotun Jr., Tennessee Technological University, 2016
• Gregory Lewis, University of South Alabama, 2015
• Shawn Lynch, North Carolina State University, 2016
• Patrick McAuliff, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014
• Samantha McPeak, University of Alabama, 2015
• Steven Moore, University of Virginia, 2015*
• Jimmy Nguyen, Tennessee Technological University, 2015*
• Kevin Quave, Mississippi State University, 2015*
• Nicholas Ray, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 2015
• Steven Rosen, Clemson University, 2016
• Thomas Ryan, Clemson University, 2014
• Derek Schulte, Mississippi State University, May 2017
• Jacob Spracher, Old Dominion University, 2015*
• Travis Tippens, North Carolina State University, 2016
• Andrew Wunderlich, University of South Carolina, 2017

Region 4 (Central U.S.)

• Matthew Backes, Iowa State University, 2015*
• Jacob Bluem, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, 2015
• Nicholas Buchanan, Minnesota State University, Mankato 2016
• Patrick Burgess, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015
• Derek Burling, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2016
• Lance Byers, Kettering University, 2015
• Robert Erickson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2015
• Tyler Fletcher, South Dakota State University, 2016
• Michael Goodlow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
• Carl Haken, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
• Keith Hand, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015*
• Joseph Hartwig, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2015
• Jonathan Herzog, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2017
• Andrew Hora, South Dakota State University, 2017
• Evan Klepitsch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
• Zachary Langbartels, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2016
• Dennis Latyshev, Michigan Technological University, 2016
• Evan Laursen, South Dakota State University, 2016
• Andre Marin, North Dakota State University, 2014*
• Thomas Myres, University of Iowa, 2015*
• Thomas Navidi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016
• Derek Neiman, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2016
• James Redinger, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2015
• Kevin Schoenknecht, Michigan Technological University, 2016
• Maxwell Schweiner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2015*
• Fansheng Shi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015*
• Adam Sumner, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2016
• Aijaz Syed, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014
• Matthew Szilard, Purdue University, 2015
• Andri Teneqexhi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
• Myder Vang, Michigan Technological University, 2015
• Drew Wiseman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2017
• Mitchell Young, South Dakota State University, 2016

Region 5 (Southwestern U.S.)

• Lance Baum, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2016*
• Bryan Buxton, Oklahoma Christian University, 2016
• William Duren, Kansas State University, 2015*
• Anthony Gaskill, Oklahoma State University, 2014
• John George, University of Arkansas, 2016
• Dany Haddad, University of Texas at Austin, 2015
• Aulia Hill, University of Oklahoma, 2016
• Benjamin Jack, Texas A&M University, 2017
• Andrew Jennings, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2015
• Kristopher Johnson, University of Arkansas, 2015*
• Zachary Lee, John Brown University, 2016
• David Leppo, University of Texas at Austin, 2015*
• Joshua Loyd, Kansas State University, 2015*
• Lindsey Miller, Texas A&M University, 2015
• Uchenna Ndusorouwa, University of Texas at Austin, 2015*
• Brian Pabst, Texas A&M University, 2016
• Michael Pahl, University of Oklahoma, 2017
• John Peters, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017
• David Sehloff, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016
• Ashlee Sherman, Prairie View Aand~M University, 2015*
• Adam Shreck, Colorado School of Mines, 2017
• Brett Siegrist, University of Kansas, 2016
• Henry Wegehaupt, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 2017
• Gregory Williamson, University of New Orleans, 2015*

Region 6 (Western U.S.)

• Carl Barcroft, Boise State University, 2016
• Mark Berg, Seattle University, 2015
• Cody Breckenridge, Boise State University, 2016*
• Zachary Burrows, Eastern Washington University, 2015
• Jennifer Carr, Portland State University, 2015
• Matthew Cato, Washington State University, 2016
• Steven Christmas, Oregon State University, 2016
• David Dearing, Washington State University, 2015
• Tim Dukhnovskiy, Seattle University, 2015
• Ryan Fraser, Gonzaga University, 2017
• Frank Garcia, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, 2016
• Phoebe Henson, Arizona State University, 2015*
• Sanel Hirkic, Washington State University, 2014
• John Hofman, Washington State University, 2015*
• Samar Ijaz, University of Nevada, Reno, 2016*
• Mark Ikerd, Washington State University, 2015
• Jessica Johnston, Brigham Young University, 2015
• Shyla Keays, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015
• Nial Khodra, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 2017
• Travis Kinney, Washington State University, 2015
• Christopher Knox, Washington State University, 2017
• Philip Lenox, Oregon State University, 2015
• John Martinsen, Washington State University, 2016
• Charles Miller, Montana State University, 2015
• Joshua Monson, University of Washington, 2015
• Sean Murphy, Portland State University, 2016
• Jonathan Nyhuis, Seattle Pacific University, 2015
• Phillippe Phanivong, University of Washington, 2015
• Douglas Rapier, Washington State University, 2014
• Suzanne Rieseberg, Eastern Washington University, 2016
• David Ritter, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2016
• Andres Rodriguez, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, 2017
• Chris Rusnak, Washington State University, 2014*
• Dmitriy Sayenko, Washington State University, 2015
• Shaun Stevens, Boise State University, 2016
• Jocelyn Tan, Santa Clara University, 2015
• Thomas Teisberg, Stanford University, 2017
• Taylor VanderKley, University of Washington, 2015

Region 7 (Canada)

• Andrew Bonnell, Memorial University, 2016
• Stephanie Gerbeau, McGill University, 2015
• William Skinner, The University of Calgary, 2017