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Fellowship Deadlines

This calendar includes funding opportunities that may be of interest to graduate engineering students. These are only a few of the funding programs available. Please see the other tabs in this section to find many more opportunities. Application deadlines are subject to change.

Application Deadlines

Month Opportunity Deadline
September Presidential Management Fellows Program September 25

Luce Scholars Program for American-Asian Exchanges September 26
October Michigan Society of Fellows-Associate Fellowship October 3

American Concrete Institute October 7

Harold and Vivian Shapiro Awards October 13
Lurcy Fellowship for Study In France October 13
International Students Fellowship Program October 13
American Public Power Association (APPA) Technical Design Project Grants October 15
Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid of Research Program (GIAR) October 15
Lurcy Fellowship for study or research in France October 13
American Public Power Association (APPA) Student Research Grants October 15
Graham Environmental Sustainability Fellowship
October 15
Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships October 30
Belgian American Educational Foundation October 31
IBM PhD Fellowship Program October 31
Argonne National Laboratory Named Postdoctoral Fellowships Program October 31
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) October 31
November Canadian Federation of University Women Fellowships November 1
National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) November 1
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans

November 2


American-Scandinavian Foundation November 2
Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America Foundation Graduate Scholarships November 3
Churchill Scholarship November 13
Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Fellowships November 17
Women in Transportation Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship November 14
American Association of University Women: Selected Professional Fellowships November 15
National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) November 15
Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award November 15
American Association of University Women: American Fellowships November 15
DAAD Award for those studying in Germany November 15
GEM/ASEE Fellowship November 15
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Fellowship November 15
Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship November 15
Women in Transportation Shawna Mulhall Memorial Scholarship
November 15
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowships November 17
Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship Competition November 17
Michigan Space Grant Consortium November 18
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) November 29
December American Association of University Women: International Fellowships December 1
Link Foundation Energy Fellowships December 1
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships December 5
Sandia National Laboratories Truman Fellowship
December 5
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Summer Faculty Research and Sabbatical Leave Program December 5
The Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program December 14
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) December 14
EPA's National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study December 12
EPA's National Center for Environmental Research (NCER) Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study December 12
American Association of University Women: Career Development Grants December 15
Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program December 15
UNCF/MERCK Science Research Dissertation Fellowships December 15
The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG) December 16
The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GREP) December 18
January Air & Waste Management Association January 3
Kosciuszko Foundation for students of Polish descent January 5
Barbour Scholarship for international Asian women January 6
Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowships (CSGF) January 10
Gates Millennium Scholars Program January 11
Link Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowships in Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation January 17
NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program January 17
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship January 19
EPA's National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) Fellowship Program January 30
AT&T Labs Fellowship Program January 31
Fusion Energy Sciences Fellowship Program January 31
Hispanic Scholarship Fund January 31
February Fulbright Grants for Study and Research Abroad February 1
American Nuclear Society Scholarship February 1
National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards February 1
NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program (JPFP) February 1
NASA Graduate Student Education (GSE) February 1
IEEE Fellowship in Electrical History February 1
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) E. Wayne Kay Graduate Scholarship February 1
Rackham International Research Awards February 2
Susan Lipschutz, Margaret Ayers Host and Anna Olcott Smith Awards for Women Graduate Students February 2
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program February 3
Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Energy Program February 8
O. H. Ammann Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering February 9
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Trent R. Dames and William E. Moore Fellowship February 9
Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship February 9
American Meteorological Society Industry/Government Graduate Fellowships February 10
Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program February 10
Robin Wright Graduate Fellowship February 11
The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Scholarships February 15
PEO International Peace Scholarships Fund February 15
Society of Plastics Engineers Scholarships February 15
Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association (AFCEA )Graduate Fellowships February 15
Yanmar/SAE Scholarship February 15
American Public Power Association (APPA) Student Research Grants February 15
International Institute Individual Fellowship February 15
American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) Scholarships February 17
NOAA-Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships February 17
CEW Scholarships for Women February 29
March Alexander Graham Bell Scholarships March 1
DOW Sustainability Innovation - Graduate Student Challenge March 5
Sigma Xi Grants-In-Aid of Research Program (GIAR) March 15
Foreign Languages & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships March 23
Charles & Anne Lindbergh Foundation March 31
April Rackham Merit Fellowship Program April 15
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowships April 15
May Milton E. Cooper/Young AFCEAN Graduate School Scholarship May 1
Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship May 1
Ralph W. Shrader Diversity Scholarships May 1
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Jack E. Leisch Memorial National Graduate Fellowship May 11
June American Indian Graduate Center June 1
August National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Lawrence F. Skibbie Graduate Scholarship Award August 1
Miscellaneous The Electrochemical Society Varies by scholarship
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Varies by program
King-Chavez-Parks Initiative, Future Faculty Fellowship Program Ongoing
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Ongoing
Rackham Graduate Student Emergency Fund Ongoing
Rackham Graduate Student Research Grants Ongoing
Rackham Conference Travel Grant

Ongoing