Citadel Cadet Daniel J. McCullough receives 2014 Gilbert H. Rowe Transportation Engineering Scholarship

2014 Dec 15

Cadet Daniel J. McCullough, a senior civil engineering student at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., recently received the 2014 Gilbert H. Rowe Transportation Engineering Scholarship presented by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, South Carolina Section. He applied, and was awarded, the scholarship when it was recommended to him by his two transportation engineering teachers because of his past experience and leadership as a student of engineering.

McCullough, who is from Greenville, SC and in Sierra Company (Fifth Battalion), is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and serves as an assistant captain for the organization's concrete canoe competition to be held at the Carolina's Conference in Georgia in 2015. He is also a Supplemental Instruction Leader for calculus at The Citadel. Additionally, McCullough has worked as an intern at Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc. for the past two summers, where he assisted in different transportation and civil designs for industrial and commercial projects, including working with the BMW plant in Spartanburg, S.C.

The scholarship was named after the late Gilbert Rowe was a mechanical engineer who worked in Charleston and had a legendary career with the S.C. Department of Transportation. His career involved numerous bridge projects in the region, including the restoration of the Ben Sawyer Bridge leading to Sullivan's Island after it was destroyed by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. McCullough is the 14th Citadel student to receive this prestigious recognition since it was first awarded in 2001.