Manufacturing engineering student awarded SME scholarship

Aaron Mader, a manufacturing engineering major from Medford, Wis., is the recipient of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Directors’ Scholarship for 2006.

Mader will receive the award, worth $5,000, at a black-tie gala at the SME Annual Meeting in Los Angeles March 28.

“I am thrilled to be awarded such a scholarship and am looking forward to the convention in Los Angeles,” said Mader. “It is an honor to attend a university with such a large and reputable manufacturing engineering program that it is recognized by SME through these scholarships.”

Of the many scholarships provided by the professional organization, the Directors’ Scholarship is one of only two awards presented at its annual meeting. Since the Directors’ Scholarship was initiated in 2000, Stout students have won four of the 10 awards presented to date. No other institution has had a student recipient more than once.

“Having taught Aaron in my Engineering Mechanics course, I am not surprised he was awarded the SME Directors’ Scholarship. He is a top-notch student and extremely active in professional activities outside of the classroom,” said Pete Heimdahl, associate dean of the College of Technology, Engineering and Management. “He is maintaining the Stout tradition by winning one of the two most prestigious scholarships offered by SME. Aaron is the fourth Stout manufacturing engineering student to have won it in its seven-year existence. This speaks volumes about the quality of Stout’s students and its programs.”

The second scholarship awarded at the SME Annual Meeting is the SME Family Scholarship, which was won by a Stout student in 2004.

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