The scholarship was created by a gift from Ken and Kitty Decker, who are both Purdue alums. Their two daughters both graduated from Purdue and married Purdue graduates. The Deckers decided to establish the scholarship to honor family members, while rewarding deserving undergraduate BME students.

Megan Bosley, the first recipient of the scholarship, is originally from Paoli, Indiana. She has been active at Purdue as a Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering Ambassador, hosting outreach activities for prospective students and their parents and other campus visitors. She is still developing her career goals, but is interested in working on implantable electrical devices that improve the condition and health of the heart. After graduation, she is considering attending graduate school, perhaps working toward an MBA, with the ultimate goal of working in a nursing home or hospital administration. She is interning this summer at Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (CSI) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.