PAST DEADLINES:
CS Deadline: 2/19/2018 by 11:59PM
Campus Deadline: 2/28/2018

FMC Educational Fund Fellowship (Spring 2018)

The University of Illinois' FMC Fellowships support masters- and doctoral-level students in engineering, business administration, and other areas related to the work of FMC Technologies, Inc. FMC is a leading global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry. Named by Fortune Magazine as the "World's Most Admired Oil and Gas Equipment and Service Company" in 2012, FMC Technologies has approximately 14,900 employees and operates 27 production facilities in 16 countries. FMC Technologies designs, manufactures and services technologically sophisticated systems and products such as subsea production and processing systems, surface wellhead systems, high pressure fluid control equipment, measurement solutions, and marine loading systems for the oil and gas industry.

Award Amount

FMC Fellows in doctoral programs at the Urbana-Champaign campus will receive a stipend of $25,000 for the academic year, and Fellows in master's programs will receive $15,000 for the academic year. In addition, Fellows receive coverage of tuition, service fee, health service fee, AFMFA fee, library fee, and basic dental and vision insurance along with partial payment of the graduate student health insurance fee.

Students must be nominated by their department, and each department may submit up to six nominations.

See: https://www.grad.illinois.edu/fellowship/index.cfm?action=main.fellowship&fid=2638

Submission Details (by 2/19/2018 by 11:59P)

Required Materials:

Student's current CV/resume.
Statement of Purpose (maximum three pages, double-spaced, with one-inch margins, 12 point font, and in Times New Roman). The Statement of Purpose should describe the student's research, including research question (and/or hypothesis or engineering goal), significance, methodology, and preliminary research (if applicable), along with language explaining the relationship of the student's research to the interests of FMC. The statement must be accessible to readers outside of the applicant's particular area of research.
Letters of Recommendation. Three letters of recommendation from faculty or professionals.

Materials should be submitted by 11:59PM on Monday, February 19, 2018 to Samantha Hendon (2237 SC).

Note: Those selected as CS nominees will need to provide official transcripts "of all current and past degree programs."

Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files. Students, please include your netid in your file names (e.g. netid_cv.pdf).

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