Scholarship Winners – SAE Detroit Section

This annual scholarship is to encourage children and grandchildren of current SAE Detroit Section members to pursue careers in engineering or science. SAE Detroit Section is pleased to announce that Joseph Morelli and Brian Zhang were selected to receive the 2025 SAE Detroit Section Scholarship in the amount of $20,000.

Year	Student	School	Major	SAE Member
2024	Jaden Bachrach	Walled Lake Central High School	Information Science	Elizabeth Simon
2024	Isaac Song	Northville High School	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Guangtian Song
2023	Laura Hull	Bishop Foley Catholic High School	Mechanical Engineering	Rosana Hull
2023	Nicole Majors	Hartland High School	Chemical Engineering	Steven Majors
2022	Aidan Cellarius	Hartland High School	Robotics Engineering	Jeremy Cellarius
2022	Ryan Hociota	International Academy West	Electrical Engineering	Ioan Hociota
2021	Julia Desormeaux	The United States Air Force Academy	Chemistry	Joe Desormeaux
2021	Calliope Saban	Lake Forest College	Biology	Dale Benedict
2020	Bianca Pol	University of Chicago	Physics	Amalia Batori
2020	Timothy Sullivan IV	University of Alabama	Materials and Metallurgical Engineering	Timothy Sullivan III
2019	Delace Jia	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Sharon Li
2019	Colin Wang	Columbia University	Computer Science	Zhenwen Wang
2018	Annalese Lohr	University of Michigan	Mathematics	Wylie E. Groves
2018	Gretta Kissell	Columbia University	Chemistry and Spanish	Eric R. Kissell
2017	Nathan Li	University of Michigan	Engineering	Jianguo Li
2017	Everhett Biland	Michigan Technological University	Civil Engineering	Catherine Biland
2016	Elizabeth Sullivan	University of Oklahoma	Engineering	Timothy Sullivan III
2016	Kevin Cremonesi	Kettering University	Mechanical Engineering	James Cremonesi
2015	Michael Arwashan	University of Michigan	Mechanical Engineering	Naji Arwashan
2015	Michelle Kearney	University of Michigan	Chemical Engineering	William Kearney
2014	R. Mark Dewald	University of Michigan	Bio-medical Engineering	Richard E. Dewald
2014	Isabelle Salley	University of Michigan	Mechanical Engineering	Donald Patterson
2013	Vishal Amin	University of Michigan	Chemical Engineering	Atul Amin
2013	Angela Sun	Michigan State University	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Pu Sun
2012	Michelle Liu	University of Pennsylvania	Science in Engineering	Chia-Hsiang Liu
2012	Meghan Furton	Cornell University	Environmental Engineering	Lisa Furton
2011	Brian Daniels	University of Michigan	Computer Engineering	Roger Struck
2011	Hannah Cheriyan	University of Michigan	Biomedical Engineering	Jacob Cheriyan
2010	Akshay Amin	University of Pennsylvania	Bioengineering	Atul Amin
2010	Brandi Frisbie	Florida State University	Engineering	Walter Frisbie
2009	Sterling Field	The Ohio State University	Biochemistry	Susan Collet
2009	Eva Robert	University of Michigan	Engineering	Kevin Robert
2008	Anoop Gopal	University of Michigan	Biomedical Engineering	Ram Gopal
2008	Cody Grebe	Kettering University	Mechanical Engineering	Sam Grebe
2008	Michael J. Hand III	University of Michigan	Computer Engineering	Michael Hand
2007	David Cardelli	University of Michigan	Aerospace Engineering	Paul Blinkilde
2007	Anne Thiel	University of Michigan	Chemical Engineering	Kent Thiel
2006	Nathan Luibrand	Vanderbilt University	Biomedical Engineering	Ed Luibrand
2006	Nicholas Luibrand	Vanderbilt University	Biomedical Engineering	Ed Luibrand
2005	Scott Bartkowiak	University of Michigan	Mechanical Engineering	Walter Bartkowiak
2004	Douglas Carmichael	University of Michigan	Marine Engineering	Charles Goodyear
2003	Alex Popescu	University of Detroit Mercy	Mechanical Engineering	Lucian Popescu
2002	Ryan Squier	Loyola University of Chicago	Chemistry/Biology	William Squier
2001	Justin Fink	Kettering University
2001	Leonard Nieman	Kettering University

	Joseph Morelli, son of SAE member Anthony Morelli, is a recent graduate of Troy Athens High School and plans to study Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Michigan.
	Brian Zhang, son of SAE member Yilu Zhang, is a recent graduate of Northville High School and plans to study Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.