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Mechanical engineering student receives NASA aeronautics scholarship

Andrew Wilson, an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, was selected as one of 25 students to receive the first NASA Aeronautics Scholarship.

Nearly 400 students from across the country applied for the program.

Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., said, "Our goal is to encourage and foster highly motivated students to pursue and excel in disciplines of aeronautics so that they can lead work toward solving key challenges facing aviation in the 21st century."

Undergraduate scholarship winners will receive $15,000 per year to cover tuition costs for two years and a $10,000 stipend during a summer internship with NASA. Graduate scholarship winners will receive approximately $35,000 per year for as many as three years and $10,000 stipends for as many as two summer internships. To maintain their scholarship awards, all recipients must continue to meet the academic standards of the universities they attend.

The NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program expects to award 20 two-year undergraduate scholarships plus summer internships, and five two- or three-year graduate scholarships plus summer internships annually in the future. Online applications for the fall 2009 scholarship year will begin in September.

More information can be found online at http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov.
 

Last Updated March 19, 2009

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