About The Scholarship
Over its 6-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 34 unique full time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering. First year students will receive four-year scholarships. The Sustainable Temple Energy and Power Scholars (STEPS) project will provide focused peer, faculty, and industry mentoring that will support scholars through to graduation. Of critical importance to the proposed project is the participation of 13 local industry partners interested in providing job placements to qualified scholars who graduate and facilitating professional development opportunities during their academic career. While efforts are primarily focused on enrolling and supporting S-STEM scholars, the STEPS project will ultimately contribute to building a college-wide framework to increase diversity and student success in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department and the college of engineering beyond the S-STEM award. The potential to change the perception of what is possible regarding college and careers for the scholars’ families and community provides added impact. Additionally, STEPS’ local industry contacts can be leveraged by other nearby institutions to improve the pipeline of qualified STEM graduates into the local STEM workforce.
If you are interested in being involved as a prospective student or industry partner, please view the links at the top of the page.
For more information about the project from the National Science Foundation, click here. To read a news article published by Temple Now about the project, click here.