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Grainger College of Engineering Scholarship Application Now Open

Grainger Engineering Undergraduate Programs Office is accepting applications for available scholarships for the academic year Fall 2020 and Spring 2021. 

Engineering undergraduates with at least one semester of grades received in engineering at the University of Illinois.  Students should not be graduating in May or summer. Scholarships are for the next academic year (Fall 20-Spring 21).

Scholarships for engineering undergraduate students are merit-based but looking for well-rounded students, both academically and professionally.

Engineering undergraduates will fill out one application to be considered for all qualifying scholarships available. Engineering undergraduates will also have to provide a resume and two references - at least one from a University of Illinois faculty member or advisor.

 

Deadline is 5:00 PM on March 9, 2020.

See the Scholarships for Continuing Students website for more information and the link to the application. 

Please contact engr-scholarship@illinois.edu for more information.

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Roy A. Axford

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Roy A. Axford

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As the first person in the United States to earn a degree in nuclear engineering, Professor Axford's research interests include Mathematical Systems Theory, Hydrodynamic Stability, and Optimal Nuclear Fuel Management. After earning his degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he went on to help design MIT's nuclear reactor as well as become a nuclear engineer.

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