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Coulter Fellowships

The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation is a philanthropic organization located in Miami, Florida, USA. The Foundation is interested in awarding approximately $100,000 in fellowships each year for 5 years to support students in the GT-SJTU ECE Dual-MS degree program. Women engineering students are especially encouraged to apply. To be eligible, the applicant must (i) be from documented low-income families and (ii) have academic standards high enough to be accepted into the GT-SJTU ECE Dual-MS degree program regardless of need. The Fellowship is both need-based and merit-based. Fellowship recipients are expected to engage in community service projects during the award period, to demonstrate or to cultivate their sense of social responsibility. Depending on the qualifications, the fellowship pays full or partial GT-Shanghai tuition and fees as well as the cost of textbooks. The grant provides additional support for the Coulter Fellows, such as resources needed for carrying out the community service projects.

Examples of strong financial need:

• The student has received financial aid while attending college

• The student’s family resides in a village

• The student is from one of the poverty areas declared by the government

• The student’s family is currently on government welfare

• The student’s parents are unemployed with no significant additional sources of income

• One of the student’s parents is handicapped or has terminal illness

• The student belongs to a single parent family for at least the past four years

• The student is the first in his/her family to attend college

In addition to reviewing the applicant’s documentation of financial need, the selection committe will also consider feedback from the student’s peers and administrative supervisors in case the student’s lifestyle and spending habits contradict the student’s statement of financial need.

Application procedure: (i) You must be a current SJTU graduate student, or will enroll in the SJTU graduate school in 2008. (ii) You must apply to the GT-SJTU ECE Dual-MS degree program as usual and meet the GT ECE admission requirements. (iii) A separate Coulter Fellowship application package must be submitted to the GT-Shanghai Program Coordinator Ms. Rui Shi by February 22, 2008. Ms. Shi's office is located in SEIEE 3-307, phone (021) 3420-6760.

Coulter Fellowship application package includes (i) an application form (Word version, PDF version) – complete the form except for the teachers’ comments portion; (ii) an application essay; (iii) supporting (official) documentation to verify eligibility criteria as indicated above. All applicants must submit copies of the family members' permanent resident registration card.

Coulter Fellowship essay:

Part I: About you.

Write up to two pages about (i) the region where the family lives; (ii) education level and jobs of parents; (iii) reasons for the family’s poverty; (iv) discussion on one or more of the following topics:

  • What do you have to be thankful in life?
  • Has someone changed your life for the better? Tell us what the person did and how it impacted you.
  • Have you impacted someone else through your act of kindness? Tell us about it.

Part II: About the project

The group of Coulter Fellows who matriculated into the program in 2007 has “adopted” Fenfa School, a primary school for rural migrant workers’ children. The Coulter Fellows visit Fenfa School each Saturday during the school year to teach conversational English to the pupils. SJTU has donated a computer lab to the Fenfa School as well.

Devote up to two pages to discuss one or more of the following topics:

  • Your ideas for fun and effective ways of teaching English to the Fenfa pupils

  • Design a 2-year community service plan to help another school like Fenfa, possibly addressing a different area of the pupils’ needs.. Be creative but REALISTIC!!!

  • How would you assess the impact of your proposed project?

Condition of support: The fellowship can be discontinued if (i) Information contained in the application is found to be inaccurate; (ii) The student does not fulfill the community service promise; (iii) The student fails to maintain good academic standing.

Last revised on February 7, 2008.