About Mina (Prakash) Kapadia

Mina Kapadia was born Mina Colaco in January 12, 1937. She married B. A. Prakash in 1963 and had two children Sunil Prakash (deceased 2011) and Nandika (Prakash) D’Souza (faculty in the College of Engineering). She was widowed in 1973 and married Mukesh Kapadia in 1979. She began work as an administrative assistant in 1953 and worked in a number of companies till 2002.

As a staff member, she epitomized the qualities of facilitative support of needs, high organizational efficiency, clear communication and engagement of all stakeholders.

In her personal life she exhibits the qualities of resilience, gratitude, personal faith and open heartedness. She loves bringing people together and recognizing people for all they do to enable others.

Deadline

Nominations requested by March 1st annually.

Requirements

To be eligible for consideration, an applicant for the Scholarship must meet the following criteria:

1. Meet the minimum entrance and continuing academic performance standards of the College of Engineering in effect at the time of any award;
2. Maintain full-time enrollment as established by the University, unless the student is nearing completion of their degree program and does not need full-time enrollment;
3. Enroll as a full-time student in any degree-granting program in the College of Engineering at the University;
4. Have a grade point average of at least a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale; and
5. Be an active member or officer of the Society of Women Engineers, the National Society of Black Engineers, or the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at the University.

Recipients

2018   Samantha Zellner
2017   Edward Escamilla
2016   Tyseanah Spell

Nomination form