For many highly promising students, scholarship support is essential to their pursuit of an engineering degree. Ashok Sanghavi, and his wife, Kiran, have donated $26,000 to endow a scholarship to ensure that dream becomes a reality for students in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University.

Sanghavi, who graduated from WVU in 1970 with a master’s degree in civil engineering, is the president of S&S Engineers, Inc., of Charleston, W.Va. Founded in 1980, the company provides engineering and land surveying services.

The Ashok and Kiran Sanghavi Scholarship will be awarded to an undergraduate student with demonstrated financial need studying in the Statler College.

“The education I received from West Virginia University, along with a research assistantship, gave me the tools I needed for succeeding in business,” said Sanghavi. “It was time for me to give something back. It is my hope that this gift will allow others to succeed as I have.”

Sanghavi noted that his company has had “many interns and employees” who are graduates of WVU and WVU Tech, located in Montgomery, W.Va.

“Gifts of this kind are important and help the College in supporting high-quality students,” said Radhey Sharma, chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “We greatly appreciate the generous support of the Sanghavi family.”

The gift was made to the WVU Foundation as part of A State of Minds: The Campaign for West Virginia’s University, a $750 million fundraising effort the Foundation is conducting on behalf of the University.

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