Scholarships
Application deadline: February 28, 2025
Reference form deadline: March 21, 2025
Donate to SWE SCV Scholarships!
SWE-SCV is an entirely volunteer run 501(c)(3) organization formed to support our local Santa Clara Valley community. We rely on individuals like you as well as corporate donors and grant funds to continue providing impactful programming for young women considering engineering careers, along with valuable development opportunities for our 200+ active professional members. Your donation allows us to continue the work that we do!
Check out our sponsorship packet below and reach out to swescv.fdg@gmail.com if you are interested in sponsoring a corporate named scholarship
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.
If your company is interested in sponsoring a scholarship, please contact us at swe.scv.fdg AT gmail DOT com
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.
If you are a student, be on the lookout for Scholarship Applications mid-November 2024. The application link will be posted here then.
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.