Money Available in Power Engineering

• National Society of Professional Engineers - Michigan Chapter. Two $1000 awards for studying at Michigan Tech, plus several other open awards.
• National Academy for Nuclear Training. $2,500/yr for up to 4 years. Requires 3.0+ GPA and major in EE or ME Power, ChemE, Nuclear Engineering, or power generation health physics. Application deadline Feb 1st.
  National Academy for Nuclear Training
  Educational Assistance Program
  700 Galleria Parkway, NW
  Atlanta, GA 30339-5957
  (800) 822-5489
  

• Myron Zucker Industry Applications Student Design Award - $300 - $800 Cash Awards. Plus up to $2000 travel expenses per award to attend IAS Conference. Annual Submission Deadline: May 15th. Send e-mail to request updated information. Primarily for BSEE students.

• IEEE PES Student Poster Contest - $50 - $250 Cash Awards. Abstract due Dec 15th. (Contact Dr. Mork)
• MTU Graduate Student Council Poster Paper Contest. $50 - $200 Cash Prizes. Deadline in mid-Oct, judging at end of Oct. Contact your GSC Representative.

• Edison Electric Institute - EEI Power Engineering Education Foundation Applications (Eligibility: Pursuing PhD):
  Engineering Division
  701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC 20004-2696
  (202) 508-5084

• Link Foundation Energy PhD Fellowship. $18,000 awards. Request forms in August each year, proposals due December 1st, Awards announced in March.
  Link Foundation Energy Fellowship Program
  Brian J. Thompson, Adminstrator
  c/o Center for Government Research Inc.
  37 South Washington Street
  Rochester, NY 14608-2091

• The National Science Foundation is offering "Graduate Research Fellowships," "Graduate Fellowships," and "Minority Graduate Fellowships," including "Women in Engineering" and "Computer and Information Science" awards. The application deadline is November 6th. A total of 1,000 three-year Graduate Fellowships and Minority Graduate Fellowships will be awarded. The 1998-1999 Fellowship stipend will be $15,000 for 12-months. For more information check: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf97133/nsf97133.htm

• NSP - System Protection, EMTP Transient Simulation, etc.:

  MS or PhD student support is immediately available, and will be given to the first interested qualified student. Contact Dr. Mork.

  Full GRA (20 hrs/wk) starting December 1, 1997. Books, tuition, fees, travel to conferences, etc, is paid for. Summer job at $2240/month (compare to GRA at about $860/month). Work with Labhesh Ganatra (MSEE from MTU in 1992) and Kalyan Mustaphi, Northern States Power. Access to and use of state-of-the-art computers, software, and lab equipment. Continually-updated 200-MHz WinNT machine in your office, 200-MHz Win95 in Lab, etc.

  The project involves gradually becoming familiar with such things as the EMTP program, building system models for transient studies, benchmarking models, running transient studies, working with uProc DSP protective relays, relay testing, improving modeling of system components and relays, Power Line Carrier Communications (PLC), etc. These activities will complement our EE582 and EE590C courses. Also, you can decide which of the many topics above to focus on for your thesis project

• MTU Research Excellence Fund - Lab Infrastructure Development Project:

  This project started in December 1996. The first year of funding provided the relay testing equipment in SB19. One year of funding for a PhD student is presently available. Additional funding for more equipment and MS student support has been applied for but results will not be known for some time. Activities may include interfacing all simulation software and lab equipment together using LabView, learning how to use new equipment and software, developing new computer modeling approaches for transient simulation, etc. Contact Drs. Mork or Bohmann.

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