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Scholarship Information

Llewellyn Hewett Jr. Engineering Scholarship

Type

Scholarship / Fellowship

Year Established

1998

Purpose

Scholarships for deserving students within the College of Engineering. (GF000048)

Description

This scholarship is administered by the Office of Financial Aid. Recipients must be from the College of Engineering.

History

Llewellyn L. Hewett was born in 1930 and grew up in Shallotte, North Carolina. He graduated from the Milwaukee School of Engineering with his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1955. Using his degree, Hewett moved to participate at NASA. He was involved in the creation of the 1981 shuttle, Columbia. While at NASA, he held many jobs but his main position was in Planning Research Corporation to keep communications with the transportation system in space.

If you would like to contribute to this fund, please go to Panther Fund and use the "other" designation to identify that you wish to give to this named endowment fund.