The AECOM awards an outstanding $5,000 academic scholarship to support students who are experiencing financial difficulties while trying to reach their higher education degrees.
What students find great about this award is that AWWA utilizes a one application form for all scholarships managed by the Association.
A student may only be awarded one scholarship per year and there are three judges on each panel that determine the scholarship recipients.
Sponsoring organizations can name one judge to the review panel, while all other judges are AWWA volunteers.
The eligible candidate for this award has to be a graduate student pursuing an engineering degree in innovative solutions to improve drinking water in urban communities.
If you do not meet these requirements, you are suggested not to waste your time applying, as your application form will be rejected.
In case you have any questions related to eligibility requirements, you should get in touch with Michelle Hektor, Sr. Manager of Development at mhektor@awwa.org or 303.734.3613.
Before applying for any kind of scholarship, it is important to get acquainted with the application requirements and the process itself.
For the AWWA scholarships, the application process is the same, as there is one online application for all level scholarships.
Besides filling out the application form with honest answers, you are supposed to submit a letter of recommendation from a person not related to you.
It is mandatory to include Academic or Research Advisor Letter of Recommendation for Graduate level scholarships.
Then, you are supposed to attach a proposed plan of research consisting of three pages of text including supporting figures.
References are not required, but you might include them.
You are also supposed to attach your most recent transcript(s) of all university education and unofficial transcripts are also accepted.
Last, but not least, copy in your resume a two-page maximum length that includes all colleges and universities attended, dates, major fields of study, grade point average.
Once you gather all these documents and meet the eligibility requirements, you are highly encouraged to submit the application and you will become a possible winner of numerous scholarships offered by the AWWA.