Student Awards

IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Scholarship Plus Initiative

THE IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative provides multiyear scholarships and career experience opportunities to qualifying electrical engineering undergraduate students. As long as the scholar continues to meet renewal standards, he or she will receive up to three years of funding—$2,000 the first year, $2,000 the second year and $3,000 the third year—interspersed with up to two years of valuable, hands-on career experience.

For the 2025 – 2026 year, the IEEE PES selected five Pitt engineering students to receive the PES Scholarship Plus

Past Winners

"The IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative is one of the most recognized and sought-after programs, and I couldn’t be more proud of our three Power and Energy recipients,” noted Dr. Greg Reed. “All of our students who have applied for this scholarship since its inception have won, and so this is a testament to their academic excellence and research."

 

Year Pitt Scholar Receipient
2025 Alexis Shafer; Anthony Spadafore; Joaquin Tristan; Jack Wasco; Jillian Zitcovich
2024 Kaye Baron (John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar)
2023 Ben Carnovale (John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar); Abby Miller
2022 Jack Carnovale (John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar); Ben Carnovale; Daniel Rodgers; Carter Leatherman; Kamden Sarkey
2021 Eli Brock (John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar); Jack Carnovale; Kamden Sarkey; Maurice Sturdivant; Patrick Connor; Todd Marzec; Carter Leatherman
2020 Eli Brock; Sabrina Helbig; Anthony Popovski; Maurice Sturdivant
2019 Nathan Carnovale (John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar); Eli Brock; Sabrina Nguyen; Anthony Popovski; Elizabeth Rager; Nolan Scanlon
2018 Shamus O'Haire; Nathan Carnovale
2017 Corey Weimann (John W. Estey Outstanding Scholar);Nathan Carnovale

Graduate Student Awards

Todd Marzec and Pete Hammond in a group of lecturers

Innomotics and the University of Pittsburgh award prestigious engineering scholarship to ECE's Todd Marzek

Innomotics, a globally leading provider of electric motors and large drives systems, and the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, a university innovating processes and designs shaping the world, have awarded this year’s $10,000 Innomotics Peter Hammond Scholarship to Todd Marzec, a graduate student in the Swanson School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

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