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Scholarships
2024 Scholarship Application is Live!
Use the link below to fill out your scholarship application for 2024. Deadline is February 23rd, 2024. Email swescv.scholarships@gmail.com with any questions!
Supporting Women in STEM Careers
SWE SCV promotes SWE's mission by awarding scholarships to local women pursuing an accredited engineering or computer science degree in the United States. SWE SCV awards approximately $15,000 in scholarships each year.
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If your company is interested in sponsoring a scholarship, please contact us at swe.scv.fdg AT gmail DOT com
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Many thanks to the anonymous donor who added to our endowered scholarship accounts in FY23. Your generous donation will help us provide a larger scholarship to students in future years. We truly appreciate your donation.
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If you are a student, be on the lookout for Scholarship Applications mid November, 2023. The application link will be posted here then.
LEARN ABOUT OUR MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Irmgard Flugge-Lotz Memorial Endowment Scholarship
(established 1992)
The Irmgard FluggeÂLotz Scholarship was one our first endowed scholarships, recognizing a true aeronautics pioneer. Born in Germany in 1903, she was one of the first women in the world to study aeronautics, earning her doctorate in 1929. She applied her mathematical skills to develop lifting line theory, a fundamental breakthrough to compute the lift distribution of an airplane wing. She left Europe in 1948 to teach at Stanford University, with a focus on fluid mechanics, numerical methods, and automatic control theory. In 1960, she became the first female full professor in Stanford's College of Engineering. In 1970, she was selected as the recipient of the SWE Achievement Award, the highest honor awarded nationally by SWE.