Paul and Phyllis Morton Endowed Electrical and Computer Engineering Scholarship

Fall 2026 & Spring 2027 Semester

• Recipient(s) must be enrolled full time as determined by the University and actively pursuing a degree in the Klesse College. An exception to full-time enrollment may be granted by the Dean of the College on a case-by-case basis when the student is not required to take a full course load to graduate, provided the student is enrolled a minimum of half-time. The number and amount of scholarships may vary depending on distributions from the endowment and the applicant pool in any given year.
• Recipients must be majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering, or successor program.
• Recipient(s) must have completed a minimum of 30 hours of coursework prior to the first disbursement of the scholarship.
• Preference will be given to applicants with minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 or above (on a 4.0 scale). If the applicant is an entering freshman, the high school GPA equivalent will be used for scholarship renewal/continuation purpose, the GPA requirement may be waived for one regular semester by the College, if in the opinion of the College Dean it is academically feasible for the student to raise his/her GPA to the required minimum level by the end of the waived regular semester.

Donor Biography
Dr. Paul Morton, MD, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Col USAF Retired is the unusual cross between an experienced physician and Ph.D. engineer.
Dr. Morton received his BS EE from Purdue in 1970, and then served in Viet Nam as an Airborne Ranger Infantry Officer, flying UH-lH Helicopters. After Viet Nam, he earned a MS EE in 1974, a MD and a PhD EH, both in 1981 from the University of Missouri, and completed residency in OB/GYN at Washington University in St Louis in 1985. He joined the Air Force and practiced at George AFB in California for two years and then went to the Armstrong Aeromedical Research Lab at Wright-Patterson APB for nine years. While there he did research in the Human Engineering Division, deployed around the world with the Test Wing, served on the National Aerospace Plane Program team, served as Chief Scientist of the Lab and military commander, and worked in the OB/GYN department of the Medical Center training residents in urodynamics and gynecologic surgery and teaching medical students. He then went to San Antonio and was chair of the OB/GYN Department for Brook Army Medical Center/ Wilford Hall for eight years, after which he retired and had a solo private practice for nine years. During this time, he also taught Logic Design in the evenings as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Closing his practice in 2013, Dr. Morton has been full time Non-Tenured Track faculty in the Electrical Engineering Department at UT San Antonio where he teaches Logic Design, Microprocessors and Digital Systems Design. He is active in his local church in marriage ministry and is the Medical Co-Chair of the Christian Medical and Dental Association in San Antonio advisory council.

Phyllis Morton has a BSN and MSN from the University of Missouri School of Nursing, is a trained Spiritual Director, and mother of three daughters.