Architectural engineering student awarded top scholarship
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
MANHATTAN — Owen Lutz, Kansas State University sophomore in architectural engineering, Garnett, was named recipient of the 2019-2020 Freshman Engineering Scholarship at the ASHRAE annual conference June 22-26 in Kansas City, Missouri.
The one-year, $5,000 scholarship is available annually to an engineering or pre-engineering student entering his or her sophomore year of college and pursuing a Bachelor of Science in engineering.
Lutz has served as the ASHRAE freshman representative for the Kansas State University chapter of ASHRAE this past year and has been elected to serve as the activities chair for 2019-2020. He also volunteered to be the student consultant to ASHRAE's society-level student activities committee at the annual conference.
His sponsoring faculty member through the university student chapter of ASHRAE is Julia Keen, professor and Bob and Betty Tointon engineering chair in the GE Johnson Department of Architectural Engineering and Construction Science in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering.
Founded in 1894, ASHRAE is a global leader in the advancement of human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment.
