Academic Scholarships
INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter Foundation
Chesapeake Chapter sponsors scholarships through the INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter Foundation to assist local STEM Students with college education expenses. The Chapter recognizes the importance of STEM and continuously seeks additional ways to fund its scholarship budget to support this program. In recent years the Chapter has been able to award multiple scholarships to deserving students from our community. The Chapter has a Committee to review applications on an annual basis with set guidelines to evaluate applicants on a number of criterion and selects those candidates who they feel meets exemplify the best.
Two scholarships will be awarded this year: one to any Chesapeake Chapter members or family members that is worth $2,500, and the second is open to anyone else outside the chapter worth $1,500
The applicant criteria is:
Be an academically competitive, well-rounded, college student.
Be pursuing a science or engineering field of study (i.e., engineering, math, computers, cyber, or IT any major that addresses electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, information technology, cyber, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering – and can apply their studies directly to Systems Engineering.
Cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. Special performance can lead to consideration in cases of lesser GPA.
Each application has four sections:
Application
An essay containing four questions:
Personal Statement describing your technical and interpersonal skills (300 words)
Your definition of systems engineering and why it is important to a project (100 words)
Describe your participation in a systems engineering related project. (200 words)
Describe how you can apply systems engineering to your chosen career (100 words)
Applicant's resume, which should highlight the relevant course work to the STEM domain
Applicant's unofficial transcript of the current school year/semester
Please download the application, and submit it to scholarship@incose-cc.org, the deadline is October 15, 2022 with awards expected to occur in November 2022. Please submit any questions to this email.
Dr. David Flanigan, President INCOSE Chesapeake Chapter