Beamex donates $10,000 to a scholarship fund for industrial automation professionals

Staff Writer | October 13, 2022 | 3:31 am Careers Education 
Beamex donates $10,000 to a scholarship fund for industrial automation professionals
Greg Sumners, North America President, Beamex and Joseph Zwiercan, Department Chair Petrochemical & Energy at the LyondellBasell Center for Petrochemical & Energy at San Jacinto College Image: Beamex.

A scholarship totaling $10,000 was created for the San Jacinto College, LyondellBasell Center for Petrochemical, Energy, & Technology, funded by proceeds from the Beamex Annual Calibration Exchange (ACE), 2022.

This donation will generate a perpetual need-based scholarship award to a deserving student studying in the field of Instrumentation Technology, Associate of Applied Science, at San Jacinto College annually.

“It is truly companies such as Beamex that are investing in today’s students for tomorrow’s future,” Joseph Zwiercan, Department Chair of Petrochemical & Energy at the LyondellBasell Center for Petrochemical & Energy at San Jacinto College said in a media statement.

The 2022 Beamex Annual Calibration Exchange was hosted at the NASA Space Center in Houston, TX on September 28th and 29th.  

This two-day event featured expert speakers within the industrial automation space from industries including power and energy, pharmaceutical, water and wastewater, and more.  This was the 12th Annual Calibration Exchange hosted by Beamex.