On September 19th, the Houston Chapter of ASHRAE recognized the 2018-2019 recipient of the ASHRAE Region VIII Scholarship. Victoria Joshi, an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student at Rice University and was selected for the $3,000 scholarship at the 2018 ASHRAE Winter Conference in Chicago. The photo below shows Victoria Joshi (left) with ASHRAE Houston President Kenneth Shifflet (right). The funds for the scholarship are sourced from ASHRAE's Research Promotion fundraising activities. Donors to ASHRAE can opt for their dollars to go directly to scholarship programs, and can even select to fund the Region VIII scholarship directly on the donation form. Donate today!
Our chapter was founded in 1958 so we are celebrating our 50th anniversary (this does not include the one year we were an ASHAE chapter prior to this) Noted people include our founding president Tom Romine, Art Giesler, Emil Friberg, Al Utesch, James R. Blanke, and Golden Gavel Award winners Joe Romine, W.O. Kelly III, D.W. Gipson, Charles Wedemeyer, L.R. “Rush” Klein, Jr., Jay Martin, and Ian Bost. RECENT AWARDS/KUDOS: Our Fort Worth Chapter members have won a wide range of awards over the past 5 years. Some of the members and their awards are as follow; Dr. Zahid Ayub, PE – 2013 – Exceptional Service Award and 2017 – Louise & Bill Holladay Dist. Fellow Award, Ian Bost, PE – 2016 Chapter Se
