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SME Education Foundation (E. Wayne Kay Graduate Scholarship)
E. Wayne Kay Graduate Scholarship
History
E. Wayne Kay and his wife, Beulah, lived the American dream. They both attended Iowa State University and came to Detroit in the early 1940s, where they created and managed a successful chrome-plating business.
Wayne Kay was deeply committed to SME. He served as chair of Detroit Chapter 1 in 1945 and helped organize Macomb Chapter 142. Upon her death in 1991, Beulah Kay's living trust instructed the trustee of her estate to pay the SME Education Foundation $1.6 million to establish an endowed scholarship fund in memory of her late husband, E. Wayne Kay.
It is the single largest gift received by the SME Foundation to date.
Criteria
- Scholarship applicants must be full-time students and accepted in a graduate program for a Masters or Doctorate degree with a manufacturing or industrial engineering emphasis in the United States or Canada.
- Scholarship awards are made only to those students who have proven scholastic ability, exemplary character and leadership capability, and who have demonstrated their potential for future leadership in the profession.
- Graduate scholarship applicants must possess an overall minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
- The scholarship can be used only as a credit toward books, fees, tuition, or "supplemental expenses approved by the SME Education Foundation".
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