Contact: Bob Ratliff
A Hinds County senior at Mississippi State University is receiving a Global Engineering Education Exchange scholarship for overseas study.
Chemical engineering major Cindy M. Williams of Jackson will use the $2,000 ABB-Global E3 scholarship this fall at the University College of Swansea in Wales. In addition to taking chemical engineering courses, Williams said she plans to spend time "learning about another culture."
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Williams and a 1999 Jackson Academy graduate, she is one of only three selected for the first round of ABB-Global E3 scholarships this year. The other recipients attend the universities of Iowa and Wisconsin.
At MSU, she maintains a perfect 4.0 grade point average and is receiving both the Barrier Engineering Excellence and Swalm Chemical Engineering scholarships.
ABB is a Zurich, Switzerland-based business providing a variety of products and services to manufacturing, process and consumer industries, utilities, and other customers. The company, which has more than 160,000 employees worldwide, established the scholarships earlier this year to assist young engineers, especially women, in simultaneously expanding their educational training and knowledge of world affairs.
The Global Engineering Education Exchange is an international program providing academic credit and internship opportunities for undergraduate engineering and computer science majors. MSU is among its 74 member institutions in the United States and overseas.