French profiled for national magazine
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
URL: http://www.nwanews.com/hl/News/24452/
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.