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Undergraduate Scholarships
The MechSE Outstanding Scholars Program was established in 1995 to provide an additional incentive to top high school seniors as they consider their academic futures. The talented students who are selected for this prestigious honor and who subsequently enroll as MechSE Outstanding Scholars receive an annual scholarship that is independent of any need-based financial aid awarded by the University. The scholarship is renewable for each of three succeeding years if the students remain in the curriculum and maintain at least a B+ average. Most Scholars retain their scholarships for four years.
The number of scholarships we are able to offer is entirely dependent on the private individual and corporate partner support we receive for the program; no state or federal aid is used. Many exceptional candidates do not receive offers to participate because of the limited number of scholarships available. Fewer than 10 percent of our undergraduates—between 60 and 70—hold Outstanding Scholar status in any given year. Private and corporate partner support is essential if we are to expand the Outstanding Scholars Program and enhance the success and prestige of the department and its students.
Among the scholarship endowments and corporate partners that have been supporting the MechSE Outstanding Scholars Program are:
- James W. Ashbrook Scholarship Fund
- A. Richard Ayers Scholarship Fund
- James and Loretta Bayne Fund
- Paul A. and Edna M. Beckemeyer Fund
- Richard Q. Blackwell Scholarship Fund
- BP North America
- Thomas J. Breen and Gail Schaller Breen Scholarship Fund
- Caterpillar, Inc.
- Bei Tse and May Chao Endowment Fund
- Guy Richard Collins Engineering Scholarship
- Phillip A Dethloff Scholarship Fund
- Exxon Mobil
- Patrick B and Janet A Flanagan Fund
- Ford Annual Scholarship Fund - MIE
- A G Friederich Memorial Scholarship
- C J Gauthier Mechanical Engineering Scholarship/Fellowship Fund
- General Motors Philip W Leistra Jr Scholarship Fund
- Margaret L. Gongaware Scholarships in Mechanical Engineering
- Al Hallene/Pella Corporation Engineering Scholarship Fund
- Roger and Sandra Heath Endowment Fund
- Henneman Scholarship Fund
- Illinois Tool Works Foundation
- Erle E. Johnson Scholarship Fund
- Kaiser Aluminum Scholarship Fund
- Kennametal
- Karl W Kolb and Arden M Kolb-DeBolt Scholarship Fund
- Marsh Endowment Fund
- Robert E Miller Scholarships and Fellowships Fund
- Proctor & Gamble
- Parker Hannifin Scholarship Fund
- James E Peters Fellowship and Scholarship Fund
- Ben Jay Rosenthal Endowed Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering
- Sam Sachs Memorial Endowment Fund
- Fred B Seely Fund in MechSE
- George M and Ruth N Sinclair Scholarship Fund
- Citgo
- Professor Morris Stern Scholarship Fund
- Charles E. Taylor Scholarship Fund
- Wilbert F Stoecker Scholarship Fund
- Charles E. Taylor Scholarship Fund
- UOP (A Honeywell Company)
- Eugene and Eleanor Wesselman Scholarship Fund
- Steven Kyoon Yun Memorial Scholarship Fund
In addition, many other individuals and corporations, too numerous to list, contribute directly to the MechSE Outstanding Scholars Program (rather than via endowments) or to the MechSE Alumni Educational (Annual) Fund, which also supports these scholarships.
For more information on investing in the future of mechanical science and engineering through the MechSE Outstanding Scholars Program, please contact Chip S. Jorstad at 217-244-4341, 217-244-9980 (fax), jorstad AT illinois.edu.