The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers a variety of scholarships to qualified applicants from the first year to the senior year. These scholarships are: 1) Microelectronics Scholarships, 2) Kepware Technologies Scholarships, and 3) ECE Scholarships as described below. Click on the links to learn more and apply for these scholarships.
Microelectronics Scholarship Consortium
Fairchild Semiconductor, National Semiconductor, Tundra Semiconductor, Analog Devices, and Texas Instruments Corporation participate in the UMaine Microelectronics Scholarship Consortium. The purpose of this consortium is to increase the number of students at UMaine interested in preparing for jobs in the semiconductor industry. In the Spring of 2007, eleven $7,500 scholarships were awarded to upper class students and seven $1,500 scholarships were awarded to high school seniors who will be attending UMaine in the Fall. The scholarships are administered by the ECE Department but any Science or Engineering student at UMaine is eligible to apply. Click here for more details
Kepware Technologies Scholarships
Kepware Technologies is a Portland, Maine company specializing in Open
Process Control (OPC) and device communication technologies for the industrial
automation market. Kepware Technologies is proud to support Engineering
education in Maine by offering three scholarships in the amount of $7,500 each
awarded to students maintaining a 3.0 or better GPA.
Click here for more details
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has a limited number of funds available to provide Department assistance and scholarships to incoming and current students obtaining either an electrical or computer engineering degree. Click here for a complete list of ECE scholarships and awards. Click here for the ECE Scholarship Application Form.
Other Sources of Scholarships
There are other major scholarships (up to full tuition) open to Electrical and Computer Engineering students that are offered by the following organizations. Please visit the sites below for the application process.
- the University of Maine,
- the UMaine College of Engineering,
- the Pulp and Paper Foundation (full tuition),
- the Dearborn Foundation ($5,000),
- the Student Branch of the IEEE,
- the National IEEE,
- the Maine State Society,
- and the NOAA Hollings scholarship.
Both the UMaine and College of Engineering pages also have links to Army and Navy ROTC scholarships.
Other scholarship resources are available from the UMaine WWW Scholarship Resources page.
ECE Support Funds
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department along with students and programs benefit from welcome support from a number of non-scholarship support funds. These funds are available to the Department for educational and research expenditures. Click here for more information on contributing to these funds.