Scholarships

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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Congratulations Scholarship Recipients!!!

SCHOLARSHIP: Mary G. Ross Memorial Endowment

NAME: Caitlyn

MAJOR: Computer Science

Caitlyn is currently a sophomore at San Jose State University where she majors in Computer Science. She hopes to combine her passions of computer science, with a minor in environmental science to bring sustainability to the fashion industry. In addition to being a President’s Scholar at SJSU, she serves as treasurer of her school’s chapter of SWE. Caitlyn is an exceptional student – intellectual, motivated and with strong technical skills.

LEARN ABOUT OUR MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIPS

Irmgard Flugge-Lotz Memorial Endowment Scholarship

(established 1992)

The Irmgard FluggeLotz 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.

Scholarships

Irmgard Flugge-­Lotz Memorial Endowment Scholarship

(established 1992)

Irmgard Flugge-Lotz Memorial Endowment Scholarship