DornerWorks, Inc.

This scholarship was established by DornerWorks, Ltd. DornerWorks (http://www.dornerworks.com) is an electronics engineering consulting firm, founded in 2000 by David Dorner, and based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. DornerWorks helps clients develop products faster, with high quality, and in safety-critical markets, using expertise in electronic hardware, embedded software, and custom logic design. The four principals of the company (David Dorner, Jeffrey Dorner, Todd Burghgraef, and Steven VanderLeest) wish to use this scholarship to encourage students to pursue their calling using their technical gifts and talents. Their goal is to encourage and support prospective and current students interested in pursuing a career in computer/software engineering –especially embedded systems, which is the design of computer hardware and software “behind the scenes” because it is embedded within a larger machine or system. These systems respond to events in real time (e.g., avionics systems in aircraft and electronics in medical devices.