Geotech, Environmental Students Awarded with Scholarships
Awards were Presented at College of Civil and Environmental Engineering Scholarship Ceremony
The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust has awarded several scholarships to civil engineering students focusing on geotechnical and/or environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The scholarships were awarded during the annual scholarship ceremony of the College of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The 2017 recipients of the Charles J. Berkel Memorial Scholarship were University of Illinois students Tomasz Rutkowski, Emiliano Alvarez and Joseph Binkowski. The awards were presented by DFI Educational Trust board member Rudy Frizzi of Langan Engineering and Environmental Services. The scholarship is named in memory of Charles J. Berkel, chairman of the board of Berkel & Company Contractors Inc., and a graduate of the University of Illinois. Berkel generously committed $1 million to the DFI Educational Trust to create the scholarship endowment fund. Currently four universities receive $12,500 annually from the Scholarship Fund: University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois, Auburn University in Alabama and the University of Houston.