Texas Tech U Awarded $1M NSF Grant

24 Students To Receive Three-Year Scholarships

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1 million grant to Texas Tech University to help financially disadvantaged, high-achieving undergraduate students. Through NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, 24 students that are pursuing bachelor's degrees in electrical and computer engineering in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering will be funded by three-year scholarships over the next five years.

"We are very excited to further advance the education and careers of our electrical and computer engineering students through this National Science Foundation award," said Tim Dallas, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean of the Graduate School.

The project will provide undergraduates with scholarships, faculty and industry mentors, workforce development seminars, industrial internships and entrepreneurship training supporting career progression that improve managerial skills and opportunities.

"I want to congratulate Professor Dallas and the entire S-STEM proposal leadership team for their success in obtaining this high-profile NSF support," said Joseph Heppert, vice president for research in the Office of Research & Innovation. "This project is exciting because it will allow some of our best engineering students to develop intrapreneurial capabilities as part of their Texas Tech experience. Aligning Texas Tech's world-class undergraduate engineering education with the power of our existing NSF-sponsored innovation and entrepreneurship training programs is a brilliant concept that will provide real value for participating students. We are very grateful that NSF has recognized Texas Tech and Professor Dallas' team members as leaders in innovation and entrepreneurship."

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https://today.ttu.edu/posts/2019/01/Stories/nsf-grant?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=engineering

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