Warren W. Yee Memorial Fellowship (Spring 2015)
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Criteria:
1) Graduate students from the People's Republic of China who are not graduating before May 2016. MS students must be planning to continue on for their PhD.
2) Special consideration will be given to students from inner provinces or inner province universities (not coastal) in China.
3) Strong academic performance.
4) Demonstrates interest in engineering education (teaching experiences in the classroom, laboratory, or as a tutor), extracurricular teaching (high schools or through outreach programs), service to the community promoting technical awareness, research, or other outreach activities that promote engineering education.
5) Research accomplishments, publications, presentations, etc.
By 5pm on 2/23/2015, the following materials should be submitted to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2233 SC):
1) Up-to-date CV/resume
2) One page essay. The essay should describe the student's career goals and how these goals will impact engineering education, research, and service to the field of engineering. In addition, it should discuss how the student's PhD program will help accomplish those goals.
3) Two letters of recommendation, which should address the student's demonstrated contributions and/or potential for making significant contributions to engineering education, research and service. In particular, the letters should address how the Yee Fellowship will help the student meet his/her career goals.
Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files. Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to colinr@illinois.edu. Students, please include your netid in your file names.