The Western Electrical Contractors Education Foundation (WECEF) is now accepting applications for its next round of scholarship awards. Scholarships are awarded in amounts ranging from $500 to $1,250 per year to be used toward the cost of books, tools, and/or tuition. Applications for the current round of scholarship awards must be postmarked by  September 17, 2010 and recipients will be notified of award decisions by October 8^th, 2010.  Click here to download an application.

New to this year's aplication is the addition of new WECEF Scholarship Essay Topics for applicants to choose from: 
 

(1) Describe the leadership and management capabilities and traits you feel are needed to be an effective field supervisor in the electrical construction field and why.

 

(2) Explain what job site improvements that you think would help improve quality of work, increase productivity and/or reduce rework or improve safety issues you have experienced and state your recommended solutions and how they might be implemented. 

 

(3) Choose a cost saving idea you might have for your employer. Describe the situation, what your cost saving ideas are and list the steps for implementation of the idea and state whether it will most impact personnel, material or indirect costs.

 

(4) Share your thoughts/ideas/suggestions on how alternative green technologies and “green” products, procedures and processes will impact the electrical industries scope of work and what you feel you need to learn and have more knowledge about in order to be more effective on the job.

For more information on the WECEF Scholarship program, visit www.wecef.org or contact WECEF by e-mail at tseabury@weca-iec.org.