Wright Engineers sponsors two scholarships each academic year to senior or graduate-level students whose focus is structural engineering. We would like to thank the dozens of applicants who represented numerous universities and wish them the very best in their future career. We’re please to announce the winners for the 2024 – 2025 school year.
EMILY KRISTENSEN
Emily Kristensen recently graduated with a BS degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M-College Station where she was president of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Ambassador program, was a statics tutor, and has been on the Dean’s Honor Roll five times. Emily will begin her master’s program at the University of Texas-Austin this fall.
LIONICIO MATA
Lionicio (Leo) Mata recently graduated from Cal Poly Pomona and has been working as a summer intern at Wright Engineers’ Las Vegas office. While at Cal Poly, Leo was a member of the Chi Epsilon Honor Society and participated in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute club where he made and tested a 5-foot-tall structure made of balsa wood as part of a competition with other schools. Leo will be pursuing a master’s degree at the University of California San Diego this fall.