French profiled for national magazine
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Jesse French was featured in a special edition of student profiles in the U. S. News & World Report published on April 4.
The profile about the 35-yearold former Siloam Springs resident said that engineering had run in his family for four generations.
In 1996, during his studies towards a master's in mechanical engineering, he entered the U. S. Army and became a helicopter pilot.
After discharge, he was an "engineering missionary"for two years in South Korea, Mongolia and China and taught techniques such as harnessing wind power.
Since 2005, he's been working in a graduate research position in composite materials at the University of Tulsa and expects to finish his Ph. D in 2009.
French graduated from Siloam Springs High School in 1991 and accepted a ROTC Army scholarship to attend Rose-Hulman Institute in Indiana, where he received a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering.
He is the son of Ruth and Kenneth French of Siloam Springs.
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