A subset of the GELC students is selected as Boyd Scholars who are given a financial award to complete 7 credits of summer classes on campus at Clemson. Funding for their tuition, room, and board are provided by a generous gift from the Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Foundation. Our third cohort of Boyd Scholars started their summer classes in May 2022. With this third cohort, the program has financially supported over 125 students in completing the first-year curriculum “on-time”, allowing these students to change their major form General Engineering to a degree-granting engineering major prior to the start of fall courses and saving them an extra semester of full tuition.
CECAS IDEAS Magazine Spring 2021 Cover Story: Update
Two of our Boyd Scholars from the first cohort in 2019-2020 were featured in a cover story describing the impact of the Boyd Scholars Program in the Spring 2021 issue of our college’s magazine, IDEAS. We reached back out to both of these students to check in and see how their studies have been progressing over the last year.
Daniel Graves is currently majoring in industrial engineering and has been actively involved in several student organizations: Beta Upsilon Chi (Treasurer), Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society, Clemson Reformed University Fellowship, and Clemson Believers for Racial Unity. Daniel has also been gaining hands-on industry experience with work at the US1 facility in Greenville, SC, and as an Industrial Progress Engineering Co-Op student at Michelin, North America. His career goals are to use experience and expertise to make improvements wherever his feet are planted, but he specifically aspires to build a strong foundation for his career in the upstate South Carolina area given his positive experience working here as a co-op student.
AJ Sanders is also majoring in industrial engineering and is also active in several student organizations: National Society of Black Engineers (Vice President of Clemson’s chapter), Clemson Engineers for Developing Countries (Marketing & Branding Director), and Collegiate Curls. AJ is currently working as a Co-Op student with BMW’s Launch & Change group, where he was part of the team that helped conduct the official checks and handover of the Bill of Materials for the BMW G09 to Plant Spartanburg. He aspires to complete an MBA after finishing his undergraduate engineering degree and is also interested in pursuing a career in engineering consulting.
