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[quote=Anonymous]While effort and need could lead to a fine scholarship recipient, and would most likely end up being some of the criteria, I wonder if you can go further.

My first thought was something like, each semester to give the scholarship to the student whose grades improved the most from the previous semester.
That would cut out the straight A students because they can never improve.

Another idea would be to put the names of the middle 50% or from the 10 th to 50 th percentile in a hat and draw the winner.
I like the random idea because I wouldn't want the winner to be chosen just because they are outgoing and so all the professors know their name.

I think there are several ways you could run the scholarship to help the winner round out their college experience in ways the middle of the class usually don't get to do.
I know I benefited as an undergraduate from winning a summer research experience budget.  I got a $1k stipend and $1k to spend for the lab back when grad students were getting $1k to teach a summer lab section.
As part of the scholarship/summer research, you could require the student to give a presentation to the department in late August to help them practice showing off.  Something often neglected in the middle ranks of engineering.

Another possibility would be to have the scholarship recipient win free tutoring the next semester.  That might allow you to have two winners because you could pick a grad student winner who was paid to tutor as well.
I think if you had the tutoring set up for 30 minutes every day it could reinforce the idea of not falling behind and would help the middle of the road grad student review as well.  
I'm sure you would need a prof to oversee this, but it could be relatively low budget and scaled to include several pairs without breaking the bank.

Good luck, I really hope you can get this to happen.

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