Graduate Aid
College of Engineering
Contact: Dr. Tim Anderson 300 Weil Hall, P. O. Box 116550; www.eng.ufl.edu
The College of Engineering offers approximately 750 research and teaching assistantships requiring one-fourth to three-fourths-time workloads with stipends of $150 to $500 every two weeks. For more information about these positions, contact the office of the graduate coordinator of your department or the Office of the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering.
UF Endowed Scholarships and Fellowships
The following endowed scholarships and fellowships are administered by the UF Foundation. For information, check with the departmental contact person or the Foundation Web site.
- Robert David Adamson Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: full-time materials science and engineering students, minimum 3.0 GPA, U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Value: $500 each - McNair Bostick Scholarship
Eligibility: Ph.D. student in agricultural and biological engineering who is working on modeling/analysis of agricultural systems and natural resources; scholarship, leadership, dedication to career; high quality research related to sustainable management of agricultural/natural resources.
Value: $500 - Bill and Bryon Bushnell Graduate
Fellowship in Civil Engineering
Eligibility: deserving CE graduate students. Value: one $5,000 award or five $1,000 awards - Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering
Fellowship Fund
Eligibility: coastal and oceanographic students.
Value: varies - Wilson and Marie Collins Graduate
Fellowship
Eligibility: meritorious graduate students in electrical and computer engineering.
Value: $5,000 - Carl Mercer Dow Alumni Fellowship
Fund in Chemistry
Eligibility: outstanding graduate chemical engineering and chemistry students.
Value: varies - Dow Chemical Graduate Fellowship in
Materials Science and Engineering
Eligibility: meritorious graduate materials
science and engineering students.
Value: varies - Fahien Endowed Teaching Scholarship
Fund
Eligibility: students pursuing careers in teaching chemical engineering.
Value: varies - Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship
Eligibility: meritorious computer and information science and engineering students.
Value: varies - Gartner Group Information
Technology Fund
Eligibility: computer science students pursuing studies in information technology.
Value: varies - Harold, Mills, Hawkins Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: chemical engineering students. Value: varies - David Howell, Jr., and Dan Howell
Endowment in Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Eligibility: electrical and computer engineering students.
Value: varies - Dr. Ralph Alexander Morgen Endowed
Fellowship in Chemical Engineering
Eligibility: chemical engineering students.
Value: varies Arnold J. "Red" Morway Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Award will not support activities that include experimentation with animals.
Eligibility: master's level chemical engineering graduate students.
Value: varies - Motorola Named Endowed Graduate
Fellowship in Electrical Engineering Fund Eligibility: qualified electrical engineering students with interests related to telecommunications.
Value: $5,000 - H. T. Odum Graduate Fellowship Fund
Eligibility: environmental engineering sciences and Center for Wetlands students who are undergraduates in environmental engineering sciences; Florida residents.
Value: varies - Patterson Graduate Fellowship
Eligibility: applicant should be MS candidates with a 3.5 GPA or better; renewable on an annual basis; preference to U.S. citizens if possible.
Value: varies - Robert C. Pittman Fellowship
Endowment in the College of Engineering
Eligibility: graduate students in electrical and materials science engineering.
Value: $10,000 plus tuition - Margaret A. Ross Fellowship
Eligibility: deserving graduate students with financial need whose area of concentration is in semi-conductor research.
Value: varies - Ralph Sias Scholarship
Eligibility: electrical and computer engineering students; award is based on a 1000-word essay on a selected topic.
Value: $1,000 - Charles A. and Constance C. Stokes
Chemical Engineering Graduate
Fellowship Fund
Eligibility: chemical engineering students.
Value: varies - James E. Swander Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: outstanding nuclear and radiological engineering students; scholarship, leadership, and character.
Value: variesNon-Endowed Scholarships
- CDM Endowment
Eligibility: prospective graduate student; used as a recruiting tool for a top incoming graduate student.
Value: $8,000 plus a teaching assistantship - Costello Awards
Eligibility: exceptional second-year biomedical engineering students; academics, leadership, and character.
Value: $1,250, several awards - Barry Douglas Memorial Fellowship
Eligibility: coastal engineering students, 3.0 GPA, financial need. Value: $2,000 per year - Ebaugh Graduate Fellowship Eligibility: full-time mechanical engineering students; outstanding record of academic experience. Value: $12,000 per year
- Kevin Scott Frank Scholarship
Eligibility: civil engineering students in
hydraulics; Florida residents; good moral
character; 3.0 GPA.
Value: $1,000 - General Electric Foundation Forgivable
Loan Program
Eligibility: Ph.D. students intending academic teaching careers in engineering or computer and information sciences; U.S. citizens or permanent residents; at least one year of graduate work. Value: $5,000 per year, renewable -
Sally and William Glick Graduate
Research Award
Eligibility: research award for students in environmental engineering sciences. Value: $1,000, start-up funds for a new project - Greiner Professional Scholarship
Eligibility: CE students in "design" areas of structures, soils, or transportation engineering; U.S. citizens active in professional societies; preference to MA in civil engineering students.
Value: $1,000, includes summer employment before or during scholarship period - Harris Communications Graduate
Fellowship
Eligibility: Ph.D. students in computer and information science and engineering.
Value: varies -
Albert Holloway Graduate Fellowship
Eligibility: full-time electrical and computer engineering student.
Value: $5,000 - Herbert Hudson, Jr., Scholarship
Eligibility: environmental engineering students whose research/training areas are potable water treatment/wastewater treatment.
Value: approximately $500 - Industrial and Systems Engineering
Graduate Award
Eligibility: entering graduate students in industrial and systems engineering with undergraduate degrees from UF; U.S. citizens; academic records.
Value: $6,000 - Jones-Edmunds Fellowship
Eligibility: CE students with an interest in water resources/hydraulics; academic performance; U.S. citizens; financial need.
Value: $2,000, non-renewable - Kimley-Horn Scholarship
Eligibility: entering CE graduate students who are U.S. citizens with an interest in transportation and/or structural engineering; academic performance and leadership activities.
Value: $1,000, nonrenewable - Mechanical Engineering Teaching
Assistant Awards
Eligibility: full-time graduate students proficient in English; outstanding record of academic experience.
Value: varies - Knox Millsaps Graduate Fellowships
Eligibility: Ph.D. students in aerospace engineering, mechanics, and engineering science.
Value: varies - Knox Millsaps Outstanding Graduate
Teaching Assistant Award
Eligibility: graduate teaching assistants in aerospace engineering, mechanics, and engineering science.
Value: varies - Dallas Montgomery Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: upper-division computer engineering students from Polk County area; 2.0 GPA; financial need.
Value: $1,000 - National Academy for Nuclear
Training Fellowship
Eligibility: master's candidates in nuclear and radiological engineering or environmental engineering sciences.
Value: $13,000 - Texas Instruments Fellowship
Eligibility: electrical and computer engineering students in mixed analog and digital integrated circuit design.
Value: $14,000 per year, plus fee waiver - Joel Tyner Scholarship
Eligibility: CE hydraulics students with serious interest in hydraulics career; Florida residents; good moral character; 3.0 GPA; no international students.
Value: $1,000 - University Women's Club Award
Eligibility: full-time, first-year graduate students in industrial and systems engineering; U.S. citizens or permanent residents; based on academic performance, character, and financial need.
Value: $500, nonrenewable - Stephen M. Varosi Memorial Fellowship
in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Eligibility: electrical engineering students who study RF circuits and/or MRI technology and plan for a related career; 3.0 or higher in electrical engineering courses; nomination by an electrical engineering professor; preference to students who show creativity and unconventional problem-solving skills.
Value: varies; opportunity for internships at Invivo Corporation