Graduate Student Research Funding

Dean's Travel Award for Engineering Students

Applications can be submitted any time per year academic year

Policies related to doctoral students:

1. The travel request needs the approval of the student’s supervisor and/or department Chair (depending on the origin of the accompanying departmental financial support).
2. Once departmental support has been obtained any PhD student in engineering can get up to $500 per year from the Dean’s Office to go to conferences. No separate application is required!
3. It would only be for students who are presenting at the conference.
4. Prior to the candidacy exam, a student’s cumulative request (spanning one or more years) can amount to $500 from the Dean’s Office. Once $500 has been spent, no further support will be provided until such time the student has passed his/her candidacy exam.
5. After the candidacy exam, students can get $500 in a fiscal year from the Washkewicz College of Engineering. Note that a student’s total request can amount to $1,500 (if additional support is obtained from the supervisor, department and/or Graduate School).
6. For the third and subsequent requests, students have to show that they have submitted a publication to a peer-reviewed journal based on the work that was presented the previous year(s).
7. It is a “snooze-you-lose” option. If a student does not use the money, it does not get transferred to the following year.

Policies related to masters students:

1. Masters students wishing to go to a conference will need 2/3 of the funding to be covered by the home department and/or PI. No support will come from the Dean’s Office.
2. The travel request needs the approval of the student’s supervisor and/or department Chair (depending on the origin of 2/3 of the financial support).
3. It would only be for students who are presenting at the conference.
4. Funding is not guaranteed. It is at the discretion of the home department. However, if 2/3 of the funding is covered, the graduate school will try to provide 1/3 of the costs. This is dependent on available funds (since doctoral students have higher priority).

Link to funding application