Throughout the previous 13 years, the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) has awarded US $4.6 million in scholarships to undergraduate college students in North America finding out energy engineering as a part of its Scholarship Plus Initiative.
PES has elevated the scholarship quantity this 12 months to $10,000, up from $7,000. Recipients, who wouldn’t have to be IEEE pupil members, are eligible to obtain as much as three years of monetary help however should reapply every year. They will apply for the scholarship as early as their freshman 12 months.
The scholarship is funded by donors. The rise is thanks partly to a $1 million donation from the Hoveida Family Foundation, a philanthropic group based mostly in Bainbridge Island, Wash.
If recipients proceed to satisfy the necessities, they obtain $2,000 for every of the primary two years and $3,000 for the third.
PES students are supplied mentorship by main professionals within the energy and engineering business. In addition they obtain a free one-year pupil membership to IEEE and the society.
“The quantity had not modified for the reason that program was established [in 2011], however the price of schooling has elevated, so we needed to make sure recipients obtained extra monetary help,” says Daniel Toland, director of PES operations.
Scholarship eligibility expanded
The society additionally made different adjustments to this system based mostly on suggestions from supporters and donors. Beforehand, recipients had been required to pursue a level in energy and vitality, however the business wants engineers with backgrounds in all IEEE fields of curiosity—not simply energy and vitality—to satisfy its staffing wants, in response to survey respondents.
This system is now open to college students pursuing bachelor’s levels in different IEEE-designated fields of curiosity associated to energy and vitality. They embody electrical, civil, pc, environmental, and mechanical engineering; pc science; knowledge analytics; renewable energy; and sustainability research.
“This system’s essential goal has all the time been to get as many undergraduate college students as attainable concerned and engaged within the energy and vitality business,” Toland says.
College students can apply on-line from 20 January to 30 April. To study extra, e mail pes-scholarship-info@ieee.org.
