National Society Awards $10,000 Scholarship to UB Engineering Graduate

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo graduate Andres Eduardo Losada, a native of Bogota, Colombia, now living in Elma, has been awarded a $10,000 graduate fellowship from Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society.

Losada, who graduated on May 12 with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will use the fellowship to attend graduate school at Purdue University, where he will pursue a master's degree in operations research.

He was a member of UB's Honors Program, and a recipient of the Lockheed Martin Engineering Scholarship, the Fredrick H. Thomas Industrial Engineering Scholarship and the Western New York Society of Manufacturing Engineers Scholarship.

Tau Beta Pi awarded 35 fellowships this year out of a pool of 204 applicants. The fellowships are awarded on the competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.