Engineering Student Wins National Scholarship

Emily Curtis, a junior in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, has been awarded the Institute of Industrial Engineers' (IIE) Benjamin Willard Niebel scholarship. A native of Auburn, Curtis expects to graduate in May 2006 from the industrial and systems engineering program.

The $1,000 scholarship is given each year to a student based on ability, character and leadership, and will be awarded at the IIE's annual conference in Atlanta in May.

Curtis was recently inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. She is the treasurer of AU's IIE student chapter and has been a member of the Student Alumni Association since 2001.

"Emily is very much deserving of this award," said faculty member Jerry Davis, who is president-elect of IIE's Society for Work Science. "She continually strives to deliver a caliber of work that far exceeds her junior class standing. Her pleasant and caring attitude is a great match for her superior quantitative and analytical abilities."