TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – University of Alabama aerospace engineering students Charles Mobley, Jonathan Muse and Karen Torres recently received scholarships from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Mobley and Muse were two of 11 juniors selected nationally to receive the AIAA scholarships. Mobley, a native of Andrews, S.C., is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Golden Key International Honour Society, Tau Beta Pi, the Honors Program Student Association and the Resident Hall Association. Muse, a resident of Louisville, Ky., is involved UA’s AIAA undergraduate research program.

Torres, a native of Arab, was one of five sophomores awarded by the AIAA. She is a member of the McNair Scholars program, Tau Beta Pi and the Blackburn Institute. She has received other awards including a presidential scholarship, an aerospace engineering and mechanics department scholarship from UA, and an Alabama Space Grant. Torres is also an Ambassador for the College of Engineering.

AIAA’s undergraduate scholarship program offers 30 scholarships of $2,000 – $2,500 to one or more college sophomores, juniors and seniors each year. For more than 65 years, the AIAA has been the principal society of aerospace engineering.

In 1837, UA became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering, with about 1,900 students and more than 90 faculty, is one of the three oldest continuously operating engineering programs in the country and has been fully accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.