Posted by John Hunter | Under NDSEG, SMART
Friday Jun 20, 2008
NC State Students Receive Fellowships:
Brandon [Cochenour - in photo] is currently an Electrical Engineer with the Department of Defense, and has been employed by the Navy at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station since 2004. There, he has been involved in the research and development of next generation laser-radar systems using novel RF-photonic techniques for laser imaging and communication systems underwater. In 2006, he was awarded first place in the graduate student poster/paper competition at the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society conference for his work in underwater optical communications. He was awarded as a Top Navy Scientist and Engineer of the Year in the Emerging Investigator category, which was presented by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for R&D in 2007.
Under the SMART fellowship, Brandon will pursue PhD studies in Electrical Engineering this Fall at North Carolina State University, where he plans to focus on optical communications and RF-photonics. He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College in Easton, PA (2003), and the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD (2008).
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William Cox has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering at NC State University under the direction of Dr. John Muth, in the area of underwater freespace optical communications. He is a founding member of the Underwater Robotics Club and writes about robotics at GoRobotics.net.
Related: Jennifer Robinson, North Carolina State NSF GRF
Posted by John Hunter | Under Fellowships, NDSEG, NSF Fellows, SMART
Monday Apr 7, 2008
Fellowship announcements have been sent to applicants of the NSF graduate research fellowship, NDSEG fellowship and SMART fellowship programs.
Posted by John Hunter | Under Fellowships, NDSEG, NSF Fellows, SMART, Scholarships
Sunday Oct 28, 2007
Posted by Evan Gaines | Under SMART, Scholarships
Monday Sep 17, 2007
ASEE not only offers scholarships for upperclassmen undergrads and graduate students. Freshman and sophomore undergrads, as well as high school students have an opportunity to participate in some of the science and technology programs.
Started three years ago by the DoD, The Science Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholarship for Service Program (SMART) is a scholarship opportunity available for freshman through graduate level students. This is an excellent opportunity for those students geared towards the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
Also, for high school students ASEE offers the Science and Engineering Apprentice Program. This is an eight week summer apprentice opportunity sponsored by participating Office of Naval Research laboratories.
Posted by John Hunter | Under Fellowships, NSF Fellows, SMART
Thursday Sep 6, 2007
Some of the science and engineering fellowship applications that are currently open:
Related: Science and engineering fellowships directory
Posted by John Hunter | Under SMART
Wednesday Aug 15, 2007
ASEE administers the Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation Defense Scholarship for Service Program (SMART) for DoD (and runs this blog). While in school participants receive a starting salary/stipend ranging from $22,500 for undergraduates to $38,000 for doctoral students and tuition and related education fees are paid. The program also includes summer internships and work at a DoD lab upon graduation (one year for each year receiving benefits as a student).
Navy Keeps Technical Workforce Savvy via SMART Program
Working full time for Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City (NSWC PC), mechanical engineer Rob Cole was taking online courses with Virginia Tech and wondering if there was a faster way to obtain his master’s degree in Ocean Engineering. He found the application to achieve his objective was simply to — get SMART. “I had been doing one online class per semester and started feeling like I really just needed to go back to school full time — maybe do a little research on the side,” Cole said, but adding he wondered how he would do this, keep his job, and pay for the education.
Cole said his answers came when a basewide e-mail about SMART was disseminated. “I read through it and thought,’Man, this is how I’m going to pay for my graduate degree,.” Cole said. “The SMART Program was established to recruit and retain civilian scientists and engineers throughout DoD agencies and laboratories,” said Ed Linsenmeyer, NSWC PC scientist and coordinator for the SMART Program, adding that SMART was open to college students at the undergraduate junior-level or above.
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Posted by John Hunter | Under Fellowships, NDSEG, SMART
Tuesday Jul 10, 2007
We have added to our science and engineering fellowship and scholarship directory - now listing over 25 fellowships including the: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation Defense Scholarship for Service Program (SMART), Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program and NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program.
Posted by John Hunter | Under SMART
Tuesday Jul 3, 2007
Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) Students Awarded SMART Scholarship:
Vandeventer and Warner, the first KGI students to apply for the scholarship, were among 100 winners chosen from a pool of 1,600 applicants by the DoD. Each SMART scholar receives a stipend of up to $38,000, full tuition reimbursement and a book allowance of $1,000. Following graduation, scholars are required to work for the Defense Dept. for a period of time equal to the length of their scholarship support.
“This is a proud day for KGI,” said Sheldon Schuster, Ph.D., KGI’s president. “To have not one but two first-time recipients of this highly competitive honor in the same year is a tremendous testament to the quality of our students and their instruction. Peter and Chris exemplify the kind of scholars we have at KGI, faculty and students dedicated to producing applied research for the benefit of society.”
After completing KGI’s Master of Bioscience program in December, Vandeventer will pursue his Ph.D. in Applied Life Sciences. He is interested in helping to develop a handheld pathogen detection device which will involve the preparation of biological samples for DNA detection.
Warner, a second-year MBS student who plans to enroll in the Ph.D. program following graduation next spring, will research methods to mass produce antibodies for the treatment of infectious disease epidemics resulting from bioterrorism.
Posted by John Hunter | Under SMART
Thursday Jun 7, 2007
A new government funded program to help students pay for science and engineering education, Get SMART:
The Pentagon’s new and generous scholarship program aims to bolster the number of top students who are earning degrees in so-called STEM disciplines—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—and acquiring skills it considers key to the nation’s future security. Called the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship program, the Pentagon wants to ensure there’s a pool of talented researchers available to U.S. defense labs so they can continue their critical work for decades to come. That’s why for every year they receive the scholarship, Lopez and her fellow SMART recipients have agreed to work an equal amount of time at a government defense lab upon graduation.
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[SMART] scholars spend summers working as interns at [Department of Defense] labs. Each is assigned a mentor, one of the lab’s senior researchers, to help guide them through their studies and their lab work. Their lab assignments are tailored as much as possible to coincide with their current coursework. Lopez’s mentor, for instance, is Richard A. Albanese, the lead scientist in the Information Operations and Special Projects Division at the Air Force Research Laboratory located at Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. His applied mathematics team specializes in signal processing and advanced electronic systems with special interest in antenna synthesis.
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