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 - Bill and Byron 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 - Dow Alumni Fellowship Fund
Eligibility: outstanding graduate students in the chemical engineering and chemistry.
Value: varies - Dow Chemical Graduate Fellowship in Materials Science and Engineering
Eligibility: meritorious graduate students materials science and engineering.
Value: varies - Fahien Endowed Teaching Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: students pursuing careers in teaching chemical engineering.
Value: varies - Gartner Group Information Technology Fund
Eligibility: computer science students pursuing studies in information technology.
Value: varies - Gartner Group Graduate Fellowship
Eligibility: meritorious computer and information science and engineering students.
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 graduate students.
Value: varies - Arnold J. "Red" Morway Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Award will not support activities that include experimentation with animals.
Eligibility: chemical engineering graduate master's level 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 - 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 - H. T. Odum Graduate Fellowship Fund
Eligibility: environmental engineering sciences and Center for Wetlands students who are undergraduates in environmental engineering sciences; must be Florida residents.
Value: varies - Robert C. Pittman Fellowship Endowment in the College of Engineering
Eligibility: graduate students in electrical and material 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 students in nuclear and radiological engineering; based on scholarship, leadership, and character.
Value: varies
Non-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 resident, 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 studentsin 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: civil engineering 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 graduate students in civil engineering 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 - John E. Morton Memorial Fellowship
Eligibility: graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Value: varies - 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 students in hydraulics 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: undergraduate or graduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering who study RF circuits and/or MRI technology and plan for a related career; opportunity for available internships at Invivo Corporation; 3.0 or higher in Electrical Engineering courses; requires nomination by an Electrical Engineering professor; preference to students who show evidence of creativity and unconventional problem solving skills.
Value: varies