The Student Scholarship Essay Competition is an annual event held in the spring and hosted in turns by San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University. Students from all three schools participate each year and contest winners receive scholarship money generously provided by a variety of local companies and ASCE members.

 

This year the awards banquet was hosted by Santa Clara University on April 23, 2019. The 2019 essay prompt included two possible topics: Discuss innovations in civil engineering or answer how civil engineers can best help society utilize dwindling natural resources.

                                            

 


Congratulations to the 2019 First Place Winner, Monique Hansen from Santa Clara University!

Read the winning essay

 

Congratulations to the Additional Scholarship Winners: 

Jeffrey Meier, Julia Carroll, Jennifer Yin, Ashton Politz, Rafael Ruvalcaba-Herrera, Marieli Rubio, John O'Hagan, Catherine Moore, Spencer Saito, Claire Russon, Megan Sauter, Patrick Hagerty, Isamar Rosa, Noah Rapadas, & Cindy Diaz

 

THANK YOU TO THE COMPANY SPONSORS OF THE 2019 ESSAY CONTEST

ACEC (American Council of Engineering Companies, California)

APWA (American Public Works Association)

ASCE General Membership 

Biggs Cardosa Associates, Inc.

Schaaf & Wheeler

Carroll Engineering

Ruggeri - Jensen - Azar

Cotton Shires

Mott MacDonald

Ruth & Going

Cal Engineering and Geology

Cleary Consultants, Inc.

Cornerstone Earth Group

Devcon Construction

ENGEO, Inc.

HMH Engineering

 

THANK YOU TO OUR PUBLIC SECTOR SUPPORTER

Valley Water - Formerly the Santa Clara Valley Water District

 

THANK YOU TO THE PAST PRESIDENT DONORS

Deric Weis (2019)

Karl Neuman (2014)

Janet Kan (2013)

Steve Sherman (1997)

Jim Schaaf (1996)

John Richardson (1974)

 

THANK YOU TO INDIVIDUAL DONORS

Bill Zehrbach

Chuck Anderson

Katherine Oven

Liang Xu

Lise Shannon

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