Marshall Scholarship Eric Chen, a 1998 summa cum laude graduate in mechanical engineering from Portland, Oregon, has been awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for postgraduate study and plans to attend Oxford University and continue his research on fuel cells for electric vehicles. I'm very grateful for all of my experiences at Vanderbilt and am looking forward to being one of our ambassadors to Oxford. My career goal is to play a part in a successful electric vehicle program.
Fuel cells are a very viable technology for automobiles.
The main concern is to get the costs down and make sure it's competitive in terms of fuel economy and performance. The Marshall Scholarships were established as Britain's national gesture of thanks to the people of the United States for the assistance received in the Marshall Plan. About 800 college students apply for the 40 new scholarships each year, which are awarded on the basis of academic distinction and leadership potential. Chen attended Vanderbilt on a Chancellor's Scholarship for Outstanding Minority Students and received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship his senior year. An active member of the National Society of Black Engineers, he served as the group's president in the spring of 1997.