Thursday 9 April 2020

Industrial Engineering Seniors Earn Scholarship From National Honor Society

Two industrial engineering seniors have earned scholarships form Alpha Pi Mu, the industrial engineering honor society. The society provides only five scholarships nationally each year.

Lexxy Gentile received the 2019-20 Robert and Jean Dryden Service Scholarship. The scholarship, was established in memory of Robert D. Dryden, former head of the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. The scholarship is given in recognition of exceptional commitment to service.

Gentile is involved in several student what jobs can you get with a computer science degree including Tau Beta Pi, the Society for Women Engineers, Engineering World Health, Greek Life Facilitators, the Red Cross Student Organization, and Alpha Lambda Delta Honors Society, where she holds the position of treasurer.

Gentile is president of the student chapter of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, in addition to being an active member of Alpha Pi Mu. She helped start, and serves on, the department's technology committee, and has worked as a technical assistant for the Introduction to Operations Research course under direction of Associate Professor Kelly Sullivan.

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