Physical Plant Endowed Scholarship

An opportunity to enhance relationships with business partners as we work together to ensure students become educated in fields of our common interests…
The Physical Plant Endowed Scholarship Fund was created by donations from Physical Plant employees to start a program that reflected the shared interests of our business partners while supporting our departmental mission.

Employees and friends of Florida Gulf Coast University established a scholarship fund to financially assist qualified students enrolled in environmental engineering, civil engineering, and environmental studies; annually, in perpetuity.

Scholarship Recipients 2010-2011
Keishla Negron-Acevedo

Brandon Frey

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Keishla Negron-Acevedo, Carolina, Puerto Rico; Senior
"This scholarship has definitely helped me continue my college education, and has helped me lessen some financial worries I am facing this year."

From Left: Director Physical Plant, Jim Hehl;

Senior, Keishla Negron-Acevedo,

Sophomore Brandon Frey,

Asst. Dir. Finance & Business Operations, Vikki McConnell

CIVIL ENGINEERING
Brandon Frey, Lehigh Acres, FL; Sophomore
"I am extremely grateful to have been offered the Physical Plant Scholarship. Your generous award will help me on my journey to become an engineer like many in my family have."

We are quite excited about the opportunity to select recipients that reflect our shared interests, such as engineering and sustainable development, and to have an impact on their academic and professional careers.

Our mission is to cultivate environmentally conscious and productive citizens to take us into this new millennium, with pride and promise, out of their responsibility to sustainable development.

Contributors to the Physical Plant Scholarship Fund

• B & I Contractors
• ATP Engineering South
• USSI
• Physical Plant Employees
• Simplex Grinnell
• Commercial Air Management
• Office Furniture and Design Concepts
• FGCU Foundation
• United Mechanical

B & I Contractors	ATP Engineering South
B&I Contractors has installed mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems in buildings on the FGCU campus.	ATP Engineering South retrofitted the chilled water system, wich resulted in energy savings throughout campus.
Simplex Grinnel Management	Commercial Air
Simplex Grinnell has installed an maintained fire alarms, sprinklers, panic devices and other safetly related systems since the FGCU Campus opened in 1997.	Commercial Air Management is a local family owned business that has provided heating, ventilation, and air conditioning services to FGCU since the university opened.
USSI
USSI has been the contrated custodial firm at FGCU since July 2003, and provides custodial services to campus facilities, including Housing, and for special events such as Basketball and Volleyball Games, and Commencement.

The potential to transform the lives of students is in the many hands of our community. Please join us in our commitment to student success.

Your contribution to the fund helps tremendously, please mail your tax deductible donation to:

Florida Gulf Coast University
Physical Plant, Attn: Vikki McConnell
10501 FGCU Blvd. South
Fort Myers, FL 33965
239-590-1314, vmcconne@fgcu.edu