Yee Fellowship (Spring 2015)

Warren W. Yee Memorial Fellowship (Spring 2015)

CS Deadline: 2/23/2015
Engineering Deadline: 2/27/2015

The Yee Fellowship is made possible by a generous bequest of Drs. Warren and Ming Ting Yee.  Dr. Warren Yee received his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1943 and was a partner in the Detroit firm of Harley, Ellington, Pierce & Yee Associates and later was the founder of Bio-Tech Research Laboratory, Inc. in Washington, D.C.  He died in 1984.

Dr. Warren Yee was known for thinking of others, especially relatives in China, before he thought of himself.  His wife has requested that income from the funds be used to support Chinese graduate students in the College of Engineering.  Special consideration will be given to students from inner provinces or inner province universities (not coastal) in China.

Each award will be $5,000.  This will be paid in two payments of $2,500 in fall and spring terms.  Departments may make at most two nominations.

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.