UA Engineering Student Awarded Scholarship

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – University of Alabama mechanical engineering student Ashley Erickson was recently awarded the Society of Women Engineers/Chevron Texaco Corp. Scholarship at the Society of Women Engineers National Conference in Birmingham.

Erickson, a Tuscaloosa resident, was one of 70 scholarship recipients chosen from 800 applicants nationwide for this $2,000 award.

Erickson served as co-chair for student programs at the 2003 SWE National Conference, and she served as editor for the SWE Southeast Region newsletter during the 2001-2002 academic year.

“Ashley is so involved with SWE that she deserved some recognition for all her hard work and time,” said Dr. Beth Todd, associate professor of mechanical engineering.

SWE was founded in 1950 and is the largest non-profit educational and service organization representing both student and professional women in engineering and technical fields.

In 1837, UA became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering, with about 1,900 students and more than 90 faculty, is one of the three oldest continuously operating engineering programs in the country and has been fully accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.