The Office of Professional Practice (OPP) has announced that Chemical Engineering Senior, Jorge Ordonez-Cordova, is a recipient of a 2015-2016 Leonard Wood Memorial Scholarship. 

The Leonard E. Wood Scholarship for Cooperative Education is awarded to deserving Co-Op students based on academic merit and life-changing experiences brought about by the Co-Op program. This year 59 scholarship applicants were evaluated through the submission of academic credentials, as well as a short essay.

After reviewing all applications and thoroughly vetting 10 finalists, the selection committee awarded four scholarships for 2015-2016 academic year, two each in the fall and spring semesters. Ordonez-Cordova received a scholarship for the Fall Semester.

The scholarship includes $500, to be used as the applicant desires. Recipient names also are added to a plaque which hangs outside the OPP offices in the A.A. Potter Engineering Center on campus.

Established in 2007, the scholarships honor the memory of the late Leonard E. Wood. Wood received his PhD from Purdue University in 1956 and subsequently joined the faculty as a Professor of Civil Engineering. He then became the School of Civil Engineering Faculty Coordinator for Purdue's Cooperative Education Program in 1989, a role he continued in until his death in 2004. The scholarship fund exists thanks to a generous donation from Wood's widow, Margaret, who sought to honor his dedication to the Co-Op program, while enabling the achievement of today's Co-Op students.