The University of Arkansas Division of Advancement’s Online Giving website has been temporarily redirected to a new site. In order to donate, please follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to the Online Giving temporary website.
2. Select “one time” and choose the amount you would like to contribute.
3. In the “Fund Designation” drop-down menu, select “Other.”
4. In the “please designate gift below” field, type “Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering Bryan Webb Scholarship Foundation.”
5. Fill out the rest of the form accordingly.

OR

1. Email Sharon Brasko, a member of the EECS department’s fiscal team, with a request to contribute to the Bryan Webb Scholarship Foundation. Sharon will direct you from that point. sbrasko@uark.edu

Professor Bryan Webb Memorial Award

The purpose of the Professor Bryan Webb Memorial Award is to honor the memory of Professor Bryan Webb by providing financial assistance to undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

2024 Awardees:

· Traveon Colbert

· Nicholas Devilliers

· Aidan Donoho

· Lucas Durnhofer

· Gage Epperson

· Carson Gregory

· Benjamin Gunderman

2023 Awardees:

· Yen Pham

· Roberto Quezada

· Connor Whitlow

Biography

Bryan Webb graduated from Van Buren High School in 1941 and attended Fort Smith Junior College for two years prior to serving in the U.S. Navy for three years during World War II. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1949 and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1950. He was on the faculty of the University of Florida for two years and worked as a design engineer for Westinghouse in Pennsylvania for three years prior to joining the faculty at the University of Arkansas in 1955.

His work at Westinghouse resulted in three U.S. patents plus other foreign patents. He received a National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship for advanced study and research at Northwestern University for the academic year 1960-61. Participation in other National Science Foundation programs included a design engineering workshop at Case Western Reserve University and workshop on the use of case methods in teaching engineering design at Stanford University. In addition to 35 years of teaching at the

University of Arkansas, he was a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Theta Tau.

Mr. Webb passed away in January of 2010.