University of Portland engineering student Jarrett Okita has received the 2014 Samuel Fletcher Tapman American Society of Civil Engineering Student Chapter Scholarship, according to Mark Kennedy, engineering. Kennedy serves as the ASCE Student Chapter faaculty advisor. The $3,000 scholarship is highly competitive, according to Kennedy, and is limited to 12 undergraduate civil engineering students annually. The scholarship was established through the bequest of Samuel Fletcher Tapman, M.ASCE, in 1961, with the first awards in 1962-1963.
For more information contact Kennedy at 8070 or kennedy@up.edu.