The 22 year old arrives for a short spell training with the Iron, and the United manager Nigel Adkins believes he has the potential to follow fellow student Andrew Wright to professional terms at Glanford Park.
"As it stands, at the moment, we've got a player in the building now, who is in the same position as Andrew was last year" he said.
"He was at Portsmouth as an 18-year-old after coming through the system there.