Scholarship

 Background of Program

AAFAME was founded to promote the professionalism of member maintenance engineers.  To this end, the Board of Directors of AAFAME have determined that providing financial assistance to members in BOMA SMA courses would be a major contribution to this goal.  Therefore, the Board of Directors has determined that AAFAME will provide such assistance when finances permit.  Scholarship recipients will be eligible for financial assistance for only one course per year unless no other qualified applications have been made for subsequent courses.

Criteria for Scholarship Assistance Eligibility

• Be currently employed as a maintenance engineer in the Austin metropolitan area.
• Be a current member of AAFAME.
• Must have long-term career plans in the field.
• Applicants must submit a new, fully completed application for each scholarship. (This includes personal letter, reference letters, and application.)
• If recipient is enrolling in first SMA course, an enrollment fee is levied by BOMA.  Recipient will be expected to personally pay the enrollment fee.
• Must satisfactorily complete course for which assistance was provided or recipient shall repay cost of financial assistance.  Application procedures will include a personal note for the amount of the course.  Said note will be returned to the applicant upon presentation of a passing score in the course for which assistance was provided.

Criteria for Scholarship Assistance Selection by AAFAME Board of Directors

The board of directors shall meet and discuss each scholarship applicant.  In the event that more applicants apply than available number of scholarships, the following criteria will be used to select recipients.

• Successful completion of scholarship application.
• Past AAFAME involvement and intent for future involvement.
• References as listed in application.
• Number of applicants per engineer’s employing company.
• Number of times applicant has applied for scholarship and amount of total AAFAME scholarships received.

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The following members have received scholarships:
David Shott - Two Self Study courses - Sept 2007
Vincent Tamayo - August 2007, January & May 2008
Kellyn Prior - April 2007, January 2008, September 2008, April 2009
Omar Heras - January, May & September 2008, January, April, September 2009
Monty Moke - September 2008 & January 2009
Kenny King - January & April 2009