Scholarship Awards

2025 Scholarship Awards Announced

 
The SPE Fort Worth Section is pleased to announce the 2025 Scholarship Award Recipients. 

Arav Sawhney

Arav Sawhney is a senior from Flower Mound High School in Flower Mound, TX, where he is graduating with a 3.89 GPA. He is a Sunlight Initiative Board of Directors member to support educational grants for the underserved communities. Arav has had prior internship opportunities, which include programming at Jetson and designing energy-efficient vehicle components with Shamrock. In his spare time, Arav coaches middle school students’ math, practices taekwondo, and plays pickleball and the piano.

Arav will be attending the University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering, where he will pursue his degree in Petroleum Engineering with a focus on machine learning and enhanced oil recovery, such as chemical flooding and CO2 injection.                                                         

Mitchell McLean

Mitchell McLean is a senior from Byron Nelson High School in Trophy Club, TX, where he is graduating with a 3.98 GPA. He is a member of the National Honor Society, Choir, Tennis Team, and Ping Pong Club. Mitchell enjoys playing piano, tennis, and running, having completed a half marathon.

Mitchell will be attending Texas A&M University, where he will pursue his degree in Petroleum Engineering. 

Previous Award Recipients

2024

  • Jakob Harrigan (North Richland Hills, TX). Jakob is pursuing a degree in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Oklahoma (Class of '26).
  • Uriel Vazquez Jr (Arlington, TX). Uriel is pursuing a degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (Class of '27).
  • Luke Peacock (Haskell, TX). Luke is pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Tarleton State University (Class of '28).

2023

  • Mason Matthews (Carroll, TX). Mason is pursuing a degree in Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering (Class of '27).
  • Sam Norwood (Ponder, TX). Sam is a PE major at Texas A&M University (Class of '25).
  • Eli Peacock (Haskell, TX). Eli is a PE major at Tarleton State (Class of '27).

2022

  • Ashton Morrow (Burleson, TX). Ashton is an Engineering major at Tarleton State (Class of '26)
  • Blake Sutherland (Bridgeport, TX). Blake attends Texas A&M University. He will be graduating with an Engineering degree in the Fall of 2025.
  • Mason Hodge (Keller, TX). Blake is a Petroleum Engineering major at LSU (Class of '24)

2021

  • Pierce Miller (Fort Worth, TX). Pierce majored in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University and graduated Fall ’23 with a Minor in Mathematics.
  • Sarah Qureshi (Lubbock, TX). Sarah is Petroleum Engineering major at Texas Tech University class of ‘24.

2020

  • Isabella Diaz (Fort Worth, TX). Isabella is a student at Texas A&M University class of '24 majoring in Petroleum Engineering
  • Ashlynn Tutter (Brock, TX). Ashlynn is a student at Texas A&M University class of '24 majoring in Ocean Engineering