AREMA, RSI, RSSI offer scholarships

Railway Age, Feb, 2005

The AREMA Educational Foundation, RSI, and RSSI are offering college scholarships for the 2005-2006 academic year.

Several $1,000 AREMA scholarships are available to full-time students enrolled in four- or five-year bachelor's degree programs in engineering or engineering technology. The association also will award two specialized scholarships: a $5,000 Freeman Scholarship for a Carnegie Mellon University student pursuing an electrical engineering degree, and a $2,000 Michael W. and Jean D. Franke Family Foundation Scholarship for a civil engineering student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne. Applications must be submitted by March 4. For details, contact AREMA at (301) 459-3200 or www.arema.org.

RSI is offering four $3,000 scholarships to qualified dependents of the employees of RSI-member companies or Air Brake Association, Locomotive Maintenance Officers Association, International Association of Railway Operating Officers, and Mechanical Association Railcar Technical Services companies. Eligible students must be sophomores in September 2005 and currently enrolled in a four- or five-year program leading to a bachelor's degree. Applications are due by March 15. For more information, visit www.rsiweb.org.

RSSI will provide scholarships of $2,000 per year for up to four years to the dependent children or grandchildren of employees of RSSI member companies in good standing that have at least four consecutive years of membership. Completed applications must be submitted by May 1. For details, contact RSSI at (502) 327-7774 or rssi@rssi.org.