Samuel Owusu, PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering was awarded a second scholarship from ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society.  

 ISA is a practitioners organization of over 30,000 engineers and technicians world-wide, and is known for its standards and training in the practice of control systems.  Don Zee, ISA President writes, "ISA's mission is to maximize the effectiveness of practitioners and organizations worldwide to advance the science and technology of instrumentation, systems, and automation for the benefit of industry and humanity. The Society is proud to support your educational efforts in an area relating to this mission.  You were awarded this scholarship because you show outstanding potential for long-range contributions to the field."

 The ISA Educational Foundation scholarship award of $2,000 is for tuition and related educational expenses for the 2005-2006 academic year.  Samuel also won the ISA scholarship for the 2004-05 academic year.  

 Samuel obtained his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ghana, and an MS ChE from North Carolina A&T University after 4 years of industrial employment.  For his PhD research at OSU he is exploring and analyzing approaches to automatically monitoring the goodness of a process controller. The work is partially funded by an industrial consortium (the Measurement and Control Engineering Center) and partly by an endowment from the Edward E. and Helen Turner Bartlett Foundation, and has led to several publications.

 Shown in the photo are Samuel, wife Millicent and daughter Kimberley.  Millicent is enrolled in the MS program in chemistry at OSU.