Purpose -The ABMA Tedric A. Harris Scholarship will be given annually to support the advanced education of a deserving young engineer toward a bearing related career. Support will be a one-year, non-renewable $1,000 grant payable to the successful applicant. The award also includes an internship opportunity at an ABMA member company.
Eligibility -Applicants must be an undergraduate student, having completed at least two years of college or university (electro) mechanical or production engineering courses with an overall GPA of 3.0.
Application Format -Applicants should submit an official university transcript, a curriculum vitae, a description of interest in the bearing industry (no more than two to three pages), and two letters of recommendation: one from a mentor and one additional reference letter.
Review Criteria -Submissions will be reviewed by the ABMA Engineering Education Committee and rated according to the academic achievement of the candidate and the recommendations of the candidate’s professors. Preference will be given to applications demonstrating an interest in the bearing industry. The final decision will be made by the ABMA Executive Committee.
About Tedric A. Harris
Throughout his productive career, Professor Tedric A. Harris made outstanding contributions to the bearing industry both as a professor in Mechanical Engineering and in private industry. Professor Harris has been a role model and mentor for numerous young engineers in the bearing field and many of these have become leaders in the field through their work with their companies and the American Bearing Manufacturing Association.
As an employee for SKF USA Inc. and AB SKF, Professor Harris’s key positions included Managing Director the of SKF Engineering & Research Center in the Netherlands and in the United States, Vice President Product Technology and Quality, President of SKF Tribonetics and Vice President of Engineering and Research for MRC Bearings.
Professor Harris received both his B.S and M.S. in Mechanical engineering from Penn State University and where he was appointed as a professor of mechanical engineering following his retirement from private industry in 1991. In addition to holding three U.S. patent, Professor Harris has authored 60 technical publications, including the industry standard Roller Bearing Analysis, now in its fifth edition.