Student in New UA-Yuma Program Awarded Boeing Scholarship
Aaron Remmy, an undergraduate student studying systems engineering, is one of four students awarded this year's Boeing Company Scholarship. The scholarships have been awarded annually since 2003 by Boeing to students in engineering degree programs with a 3.0 grade point average (GPA) or higher.
Remmy is currently part of a unique distance learning program where engineering students spend their first three years studying at the Arizona Western College/UA - Yuma Learning Center. Students then attend classes at the UA main campus their final year to finish their bachelor's degree in engineering. The Yuma/SIE partnership is in its first year as a distance learning program, and Remmy is part of a group of six engineering students currently participating in upper level engineering courses in Yuma, said Larry Head, head of the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the UA.
"Aaron is very much a leader in that group, and that's why he was an easy choice as a scholarship recipient," Head said.
Approximately 60 students are currently taking entry level college engineering courses in Yuma, says Tanya Hodges, the UA coordinator for academic programs at the Yuma.
Other students awarded the Boeing Company Scholarship this year include electrical engineering undergraduate Cheyne Harvey, aerospace engineering senior Ryan Crompton and civil engineering undergraduate Sonia Sarmiento, all currently at the UA College of Engineering.