Scholarships and Awards
Financial Aid – Application Deadline 31 January (12p.m. EST)
To help support promising future aerospace professionals, the AIAA Foundation annually awards financial aid to undergraduate and graduate students in science or engineering programs related to aerospace. Our goal is to help attract top science and engineering students to aerospace fields to provide high-visibility recognition of these students and their work to furnish financial assistance to aerospace students and to assure the availability of the talented professionals the aerospace industry will need in the years ahead.
The AIAA Foundation's undergraduate scholarship program offers scholarships to college sophomores, juniors, and seniors each year. Recipients can apply to renew their scholarship annually until they graduate.
Through its annual graduate scholarship program, the AIAA Foundation presents awards to graduate students doing excellent research in the air and space sciences.
Scholarship applications can be submitted online (applications accepted from November through January 2014).
Basic Criteria:
- Must be an AIAA Member
- Must be a full-time student
- 3.3 Grade Point Average (or equivalent)
- Must be studying a topic related to an AIAA Technical Committee
| Scholarship Name | Unique Criteria | Sponsor | Value | |||
| George and Vicki Muellner Scholarship for Aerospace Engineering | For students study a field to enter the Aeronatuics industry (e.g. Astronautical engineering). | George and Vicki Muellner | $5,000 | |||
| David and Catherine Thompson Space Technology Scholarship | For students study a field to enter the SPACE industry (e.g. Astronautical engineering). | David and Catherine Thompson | $5,000 | |||
| Leatrice Gregory Pendray Scholarship | For female applicants only. | AIAA Foundation | $1,250 | |||
| Cary Spitzer Digital Avionics Scholarship | NA | AIAA Digital Avionics Technical Committee | $1,500 | |||
| Ellis F. Hitt Digital Avionics Scholarship | NA |
AIAA Digital Avionics Technical Committee |
$1,500 |
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| Dr. Amy R. Pritchett Digital Avionics Scholarship | NA | AIAA Digital Avionics Technical Committee | $1,500 | |||
| Dr. James Rankin Digital Avionics Scholarship | NA | AIAA Digital Avionics Technical Committee | $1,500 | |||
| Space Transportation Scholarship | NA | AIAA Space Transportation Technical Committee | $1,500 | |||
| Liquid Propulsion Scholarship | NA | AIAA Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee | $2,500 |
Graduate:
Basic Criteria:
- Must be an AIAA Member
- Must be a full-time student
- 3.3 Grade Point Average (or equivalent)
- Must be studying a topic related to an AIAA Technical Committee
| Scholarship Name | Unique Criteria | Sponsor | Value | |||
| Guidance, Navigation, and Control Graduate Award | Must be researching a Guidance, Navigation, and Control topic. | AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Technical Committee | $2,500 | |||
| Gordon C. Oates Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award | Must be researching an Air Breathing Propulsion topic. | AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Tehnical Committee | $1,000 | |||
| John Leland Atwood Graduate Award | NA | AIAA Foundation | $1,000 | |||
| Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Awards (2) | NA | AIAA Foundation | $5,000 | |||
| Martin Summerfield Propellants and Combustion Graduate Award | Must be researching a research topic related to propellants and/or combustion. | AIAA Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee | $1,250 | |||
| William T. Piper, Sr. General Aviation Systems Graduate Award | Must be researching areas related to general aviation aircraft. | General Aviation System Technical Committee | $1,000 |
