Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology (IBET) Momentum Fellowship

Award type: 
Scholarships
Affiliation: 
Black, Indigenous
Award description: 

Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology Momentum Fellowships, valued at $30,000 per year, are available annually for doctoral students registered full time in the Faculty of Engineering. Applicants must be Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents of Canada and identify as Indigenous* or Black. The application for the fellowship as well as application due dates can be found on the Faculty of Engineering website. The Engineering Graduate Awards Committee, chaired by the Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering, will consider applicants for this fellowship based on information provided in the student’s award application, and graduate program application.

Value: 
$30,000
Value description: 

PhD Fellowships are valued at $25,000 per year (plus an additional $5,000 from the supervisor)

Eligibility & selection criteria: 

  • Canadian Citizens or permanent residents of Canada who identify as being Indigenous* or Black

  • Applicants must meet the minimum admission requirements (normally a cumulative average of 80%) for their chosen Faculty of Engineering PhD program or Faculty of Mathematics PhD program.
  • Must be admitted into the PhD program in Spring 2021 or later;
    • Students transferring from an eligible, incomplete Master’s program to a PhD may also be considered for the Fellowship

*For the purpose of this fellowship, an Indigenous person is one who is a citizen or member of a First Nations community (Status/Non-Status), Métis, or Inuit as defined in the Canadian Constitution Act 1982. To protect the integrity of Indigenous graduate students eligible for specific funding, those identifying as Indigenous must be verified by the Office of Indigenous Relations at the University of Waterloo through the Indigenous verification process.

Level: 
Doctoral
Program:
Engineering→Architecture, MBET, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Eng, Electrical & Computer Eng, Management Sciences, Mechanical & Mechatronics Eng, Quantum Computing, Systems Design Engineering; Mathematics→Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics & Optimization, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics for Teachers, Pure Mathematics, Statistics & Actuarial Science
Citizenship: 
Canadian/Permanent resident
Selection process: 
Application required
Additional instructions: 

Application forms can be found on the Faculty websites below:

Applicants must submit their application form by one of the application deadlines below:

  • February 1 (for Fall admission)
  • June 1 (for Winter admission)
  • October 1 (for Spring admission)
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