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Application Requirements:
- Award Yee Application Cover Sheet. Please download/complete and add this as the first page of your cover sheetapplication. You can list Michelle Wellens as your Department Contact (Phone: 217-244-2598 and Email: mwellens@illinois.edu)
- Student vita/resume specifying previous education, work experience, research experience, publications, presentations and relevant service.
- If incoming student, please include the following information from the student’s application – transcripts with GPA and GRE scores. For current Illinois graduate students, please include unofficial transcripts with current GPA and a copy of GRE scores from their admission file.
- One-page essay by the student nominee. 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, how the student's PhD program will help accomplish those goals. For incoming PhD students, please ask them to submit this statement.
- 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. For incoming PhD students, their “Letters of Recommendation” from their application may be submitted.
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By 11:59 PM on 2/18/2021, the following materials should be submitted to Michelle Wellens at mwellens@illinois.edu. Application materials must be submitted as a single PDFs PDF with this naming convention: "Last Name, First Name - Yee 2021" (example: Wellens, Michelle - Yee 2021). Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to: mwellens@illinois.edu.