Kathy Stieler, NATE Director of Safety, Health & Compliance, presents Henry Hall with the Ernie Jones Memorial Scholarship certificate of acknowledgment.
NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association today announced that Henry Hall, a Junior Civil Engineering major from Columbus, Indiana has been named as the 2024 recipient of the Ernie Jones Memorial Civil Engineering Scholarship at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. The official announcement was made at the NATE Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, February 21 during the annual NATE UNITE 2024 Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hall is involved on campus through the UE Honors College and the student chapter of ASCE, where he currently serves as Treasurer. In class, Hall is a hardworking student who shows impressive leadership on group projects. Hall has had multiple internships, including one for his local water utility and one with Strand Associates. This upcoming summer, he will work on the Starship Infrastructure team for SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas. After graduation, Henry aspires to return to work at SpaceX in the field of structural design.
“Henry is a hardworking student who excels in his engineering courses,” stated Dr. Megan Voss-Warner, University of Evansville Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. “Henry is very worthy of the Ernie Jones Memorial Scholarship given his interest in structural engineering, which includes a planned internship in this discipline this summer,” added Voss-Warner.
Ernie Jones was a structural engineer who worked in the broadcast tower industry for 30 years. During his career, Jones served as a Professional Engineer and President of Consolidated Engineering, Inc. and a Vice-President of Structural Engineering at Electronics Research, Inc. Ernie was also a participating member of the TR-14.7 Committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association and Electronics Industry Association since 1986 where he assisted with writing and approving the ANSI-TIA/EIA 222 standard which is the American National Standard for Steel Antenna Towers and Antenna Supporting Structures.
The Ernie Jones Memorial Civil Engineering Scholarship awards a $2,500 NATE-funded scholarship annually to a junior or senior-level civil engineering student at the University of Evansville’s College of Engineering and Computer Science.
