Scholarship Advice from a Scholar: Part 3

#3. Apply for scholarships that are specific to your field or major.

Professional societies often give scholarships and this is a great place to start. I received a scholarship through SWE, the Society of Women Engineers. Many of these scholarships are offered just to students in certain majors or even minorities in certain majors. If you are passionate about your field of study and can convince everyone else in your essay, you are more likely to win these types of scholarships.

Here are many engineering societies that I am familiar with (but there are many for humanities as well!):

Society of Women Engineers http://www.swe.org/

National Society of Professional Engineers http://www.nspe.org/

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers http://www.shpe.org/

National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) http://national.nsbe.org/

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers http://www.ieee.org/index.html

International Council on Systems Engineering http://incose.org/

American Society of Mechanical Engineers http://www.asme.org/

American Institute of Chemical Engineers http://www.aiche.org/

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics https://www.aiaa.org/

American Society for Engineering Education http://www.asee.org/

American Society of Civil Engineers http://www.asce.org/

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