Undergraduate Scholarship Application

Please fill out the following form by May 1st in order to be considered for departmental scholarships next academic year.

• EME Scholarship Eligibility: Undergraduate students who are majoring in a residential EME degree program (Energy Business and Finance; Energy Engineering; Environmental Systems Engineering; Mining Engineering; and Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering) are eligible to apply for EME scholarships. Students are evaluated based on the criteria of each individual scholarship (i.e. major, academic merit, financial need, PA residency, etc.). By filling out the department application, you will be considered for all scholarships for which you qualify.
  • Please note that applicants are judged against others in their major and assigned a funding level based on their academic performance, financial need, semester standing, and student engagement level. We then match you with scholarships for which you qualify, up to the amount of your designated funding. You won’t receive a scholarship from every account for which you meet the criteria. Instead we try to award your full funding level from as few different scholarships as necessary.
• Financial Need: Many of our scholarships require recipients to have documented financial need from the U.S. Department of Education, which is obtained by submitting the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA application is available online. International students without a U.S. social security number may not be eligible to file the FAFSA. If you cannot fill out the FAFSA, you cannot be considered for scholarships requiring financial need as a criterion.
• Application Procedure: You will be asked to upload a current resume as part of the EME scholarship application. Please update your resume as much as possible before submitting it, including internships or jobs that you have accepted for this coming summer. Also, please fill out all fields in the application form. Some scholarships require very specific conditions, and if you don’t include information about your leadership activities or that you have worked an internship then you will not qualify for scholarships that require such activities. It’s better to fill in too much information than not enough. Activities such as running your own lawn-care business, volunteering for a non-profit group in your field, or holding an office in a philanthropic organization or student activity group can all show leadership potential or experience. Be sure to list all of your relevant activities.
• Scholarship Acknowledgements: The scholarships that we award each year are made possible thanks to the generous support of our alumni and industry friends. In order to show those sponsors the importance and impact of their support, we ask all scholarship recipients to write an awardee profile that we can share with their scholarship sponsors. Please know that this will be an expected component of your award if you apply for and receive departmental scholarships.

Please note that you can also apply for scholarships from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, in which EME is one of five academic departments. The college’s online application and deadline (April 15) are very similar to ours, but these are two different pools of scholarships. You must apply to each one separately in order to be considered for both.

Please upload a digital copy of your resume.