Financial Aid

A large percentage of our continuing graduate students receive teaching or research assistantships. Each year, the Department offers assistantships to our most outstanding applicants. Pre-master's students receive $10,000-$20,000, and postmaster's receive $12,000-$24,000 for half-time service, plus a tuition waiver for 24 semester hours per year. The Department supports about 50 graduate students through teaching and research assistantships and several postdoctoral positions. The Department maintains close relationships with Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Air Force Research Laboratory (Phillips site). Highly qualified minority students may also apply for Sloan Doctoral Fellowships.

SCHOLARSHIPS

AIAA scholarship

-Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
-Must be pursuing a course of study related to the art, science, and/or technology of Aeronautics and/or Astronautics (see www.aiaa.org)
-Undergraduates must have completed at least 60 hours in a degree-granting curriculum by the end of the semester of application
-Graduate students must be admitted to a degree program at the time of application

     AIAA Scholarship Application
     AIAA Scholarship References Form

Howard S. Bluestein Memorial Scholarship

-Must be Mechanical Engineering student
-Must be a "Non Traditional" student who did not graduate from high school and
immediately enroll at the University of New Mexico

James O. Coupland Memorial Scholarship

-Must demonstrate academic achievement
-Must demonstrate financial need for scholarship assistance
-Must be enrolled as a full-time student in Mechanical Engineering at UNM School of Engineering
-First preference shall be given to students living in rural communities

The Marilee B. Wildin & Maurice W. Wildin, Jr. Scholarship

-Must maintain grade point average of 3.0
-Must demonstrate need for financial assistance
-Must be enrolled full time as a Mechanical Engineering student
-Must be of freshman (second semester) or sophmore grade level, having come to the university from high school or through transfer
-Must submit a 250-word essay on why they have chosen Mechanical Engineering as their field of study and what contribution they expect to make through their chosen profession

Steven Rose Memorial Scholarship

-Must be a Junior or Senior studying Mechanical Engineering at the UNM School of Engineering
-Must have a GPA of at least 3.0 at the time of selection
-Preference will be given to students studying Biomedicine and/or Applied Computational Engineering