Private Scholarships

First Robotics Scholarship
Include with application a 500 word essay regarding your FIRST experience, your career goals and a letter of recommendation from one of your FIRST adult mentors.  Deadline date March 1.
First Robotics Scholarship Application 

Transfer Scholarship
Indicate on the application that you are interested in the Phi Theta Kappa Transfer Scholarship.

ASCO Numatics Industrial Automation Engineering College Scholarships  - ASCO Numatics, the world's leading manufacturer of comprehensive fluid automation, flow control, and pneumatics solutions, is proud to announce the beginning of the 2011/2012 scholarship application period. We will award two $5,000 merit-based scholarships to U.S. engineering students who are pursuing careers in industrial automation-related disciplines. ASCO Numatics will also make $1,000 grants to the engineering departments of the colleges in which the winners are enrolled.
 

 The Balanced Man Scholarship  - Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation offers this $500 competitive scholarship to all incoming freshmen. Learn more at www.ltusigeps.com

John Luttig Scholarship Fund
The mission of the John Luttig Scholarship Fund is to provide scholarships to deserving high school graduates from a Michigan school district who are pursuing an architectural degree at Lawrence Tech. By reaching out to motivated students, the Scholarship Fund helps to provide the means to attend college and the opportunity to realize their aspirations.
Click here to apply: John Luttig Scholarship Fund

Scholarship with a Navy Career
Financial support totaling up to $135,000. Contact Brian.Hart1@Navy.Mil or 313.215.0339

DTE Energy Scholarship
This scholarship is established by the DTE Energy Foundation. Estimated number of distributions for the Fall Academic Semester will be from ten up to twenty scholarships. The dollar value of each scholarship can range from $500 to $1000. The Lawrence Technological University Scholarship Committee will review the applicants, make a decision on the award, and notify the student(s) who are awarded the scholarship.

The following criteria shall be considered by the University in selecting the scholarship recipient:

 Scholarships may be awarded to undergraduate and graduate students who are committed to studying energy engineering, alternative energy or energy & environmental management.

• Currently enrolled Lawrence Tech undergraduate students are eligible to apply for this scholarship.
• Part-time students are eligible for the scholarship.
• Undergraduate scholarship applicants must have a minimum GPA of 3.0.
• Graduate scholarship applicants must have a letter of recommendation from their supervisor and a resume stating their work experience and education in an energy-related field.
• Preference will be given to students with demonstrated financial need.
• Applicants will submit a 2-page essay-letter to the scholarship committee, expressing their commitment to study energy engineering, alternative energy, or energy & environmental management and why this scholarship will help them attain their academic goals.
• All recipients must acknowledge the benefits of the scholarship to their education in a letter addressed to either the donor, or the University’s Office of Financial Aid, before their scholarship may be awarded.
• The scholarship shall be administered by the University Scholarship Committee and the Office of Financial Aid, according to their normal policies.

Submit all questions and application information relating to this scholarship to Office of Financial Aid,
in the LTU Financial Aid Office, telephone #248-204-2121.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships -  are designed to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.  Fellowships Office National Research Council of the National Academies phone:202.334.2872 or email: infofell@nas.edu. Web based applications may be filled out and submitted on-line.

Buick Achievers Scholarship Program:  current undergraduate students, as well as high school seniors and graduates, for the 2012-13 school year. The scholarship program provides up to $25,000 a year to 100 students, renewable for up to four years and one additional year for five-year engineering programs.  An additional 1,000 students receive a one-time $2,000 award. The program is funded by the GM Foundation and is among the largest awarded over multiple years.Information and applications are available at www.buickachievers.com.  Applications will be accepted through Feb. 29, 2012, and scholarships will be awarded in Spring 2012 for the 2012-2013 academic year.  

Nicki Kapron Scholarship- for female students.$2,000 scholarship application and guidelines available at www.zontasouthfield.org. Zonta Club of Southfield area member of Zonta International, advancing the status of women worldwide.

Women's Transportation Seminar  - Women's Transportation Seminar, an International professional organization promoting women.  Their vision is to transform the transportation industry through the advancement of women.  For more information on this organization please visit their website at www.wtsinternational.org. Find scholarship information under WTS Foundation link.

Detroit Chapter of APICS: The Association for Operations Management.

A $750 scholarship is open to all full-time and part-time students (undergraduate or graduate level).  This is a great opportunity for students to get a scholarship during these tough economic times. The scholarship requirements are:

• College students in good standing,
• Pursuing a career Operations Management/Supply Chain Management
• Are currently enrolled at the undergraduate or graduate level.
• Merit will be evaluated on three factors: GPA;Current resume;one-page essay

      Financial need as determined by the APICS Chapter Scholarship Committee.

• Student must attend one professional development meeting (PDM) prior to applying for scholarship and meet three board members at the event.
  Contact Andrea Oltesvig at Oltesvig@gmail.com for more information.

VFW Scholarship

A $500 scholarship awarded twice per year.

• For information, see http://www.vfw5855.org/scholarship.htm

Kelly Engineering

• Since 2004, Kelly Engineering has provided a $5,000 scholarship to Sophomore/Junior status students enrolled in an accredited engineering program.  Since that time, Kelly Engineering has awarded $40,000 to help support those bright and talented students in their pursuit of an engineering degree and hopefully a long engineering career.
• This scholarship program has raised the brand recognition of Kelly Engineering thru media coverage, broad university/college outreach, participation of students from across the U.S. and judges who are from the field of engineering, serving as professionals covering the field thru trade publications and the like, to prospects and customers.
• Students are asked to complete an application, provide academic transcripts, two letters of recommendations and an essay response to an engineering relative topic.  This year’s deadline is October 14, 2011.
• This Scholarship program focuses on college youth, while our NAF partnership and grant awards helps to stimulate urban and low income high school students’ interests in a career in engineering, rounding out our influence on the supply of engineers beginning at the high school freshman age.
  
• Interested students should contact Enrollment Services at enrollmentservices@ltu.edu for application information.