Three 黑料正能量 students are the first recipients of a new engineering scholarship.
Alexis Ferro of Mount Olive, Ashley Sutton of Snow Hill, and Charles Tutor of Seven Springs, all working toward associate degrees in engineering, were awarded 鈥淧IRATES鈥� scholarships.
The funds for the scholarship are from the Providing Inclusive Residential and Transfer Experience Scholarships (PIRATES) in Engineering program at East Carolina University. It provides $3,000 annual scholarships for low-income students enrolled in WCC鈥檚 Associate in Engineering program who plan to transfer into an engineering degree program at ECU.
If the recipients transfer into ECU鈥檚 College of Engineering and Technology, their scholarships could continue at up to $10,000 per year for two more years.
The program was made possible by a $4 million grant to East Carolina University鈥檚 College of Engineering and Technology from the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program (S-STEM).
鈥淎s part of this grant, 黑料正能量 can award up to five scholarships for each of the next two academic years,鈥� said WCC Arts and Sciences Division Dean Brandon Jenkins.
Two $1,500 scholarships are available for Spring 2021 for students majoring in engineering at WCC who have unmet financial need, he said.
The .聽The deadline to apply is Oct. 29, 2020.
For more information on the PIRATES in Engineering Scholarship or WCC鈥檚 Associate in Engineering degree program,
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About ECU
East Carolina University, or ECU as it鈥檚 best known, offers more than 85 bachelor鈥檚, 72 master鈥檚 and 19 doctoral degrees to nearly 29,000 students on its Greenville, North Carolina, campus and through an acclaimed online learning program.
ECU’s Department of Engineering, which resides in the School of Engineering and Technology, is accredited by the ABET, Inc. Engineering Accreditation Commission. It has approximately 550 students served by 28 faculty members who represent 21 fields of engineering. ECU offers a BS in Engineering with six concentrations: Biomedical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. To learn on the .
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