Electrical Engineering Scholarship Honors Colorado State Alumnus Gordon Skinner
Monday, January 6, 1997
FORT COLLINS--A scholarship honoring the memory of Colorado
State alumnus Gordon Skinner was recently established in the
university's department of electrical engineering.
Applications for the Gordon Skinner scholarship will be
accepted after Jan. 1 for the fall 1997 semester. The Gordon
Skinner scholarship is one of about 100 awarded by the College of
Engineering and administered through the associate dean for
undergraduate programs in the college.
Skinner, a 1985 electrical engineering graduate of Colorado
State, was killed in a climbing accident in 1995. He graduated
with valedictorian honors in 1981 from Canon City High School and
received a bachelor's degree at Colorado State. Skinner graduated
magna cum laude from the university.
Skinner received a National Science Foundation Fellowship
for graduate studies and went on to complete a master's degree in
physics in 1989 from the University of Texas in Austin. Skinner
lived in Lyons, Colo., and helped establish QUALCOMM Inc. in
Boulder. He served as engineering manager in the company at the
time of his death. He frequently returned to the College of
Engineering to recruit top graduates as QUALCOMM employees.
The $2,000 Gordon Skinner Scholarship is awarded to an
outstanding junior or senior electrical engineering student with
financial need. It covers approximately 80 percent of tuition and
fees at Colorado State. Preference will be given to students who
are also involved with music. Skinner was drummer for the jazz
band at Colorado State.
The scholarship was first awarded for the 1997 spring
semester to Tam-Trang Tran. Tam-Trang Tran has a 3.9 grade point
average and graduates in May.
For information on scholarships in the College of
Engineering, call (970) 491-1058.
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