About ASME Scholarships
& How to Apply

ASME Student Members

ASME undergraduate or graduate student members worldwide are eligible for academic scholarships, with generous funding made possible by donors through the ASME Foundation and the ASME Auxiliary.

Unless noted, an applicant must be an ASME Student Member to login to the online application system.

• Click to Join ASME
• Click to Renew your membership
• If you haven't received or have forgotten your ASME student member number, please request it at CustomerCare@asme.org or call 1-800-THE-ASME (1-800-843-2763).

Note for applicants from outside the United States:

Global indicates that the scholarship has no citizenship or geographic requirements. Some scholarships are available to student members studying in the United States who are from other countries. Please see the Complete Scholarship List (PDF) and note the list of ASME Scholarships available to students outside the United States.

Scholarship money for non-US students will be sent by wire transfer to your university bank account in your name and you will need to consult your tax advisor regarding your obligation for possible taxes due on that money.

ABET Accreditation Equivalency: While you do not need to be studying within the United States to be eligible for many of the ASME Scholarships, you must be enrolled in the upcoming academic year at an ABET-accredited (or equivalent) engineering degree program, or be studying at a university recognized by the Washington Accord countries, or one with an equivalent Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA). (No further information about which institutes are accredited will be available by contacting ASME.)

• To see the list of Mutual Recognition Agreement countries.
• To search a database of degree programs directly accredited by ABET.

Tips for Completing the Online Application:

The ASME Online Scholarship Application has required information noted with an asterisk (*)

Login

Login to the your ASME account using the e-mail address with and password you usually use for your ASME account. If you have misplaced your membership information, please email CustomerCare@asme.org to resend it to you. Be sure your contact info and address is up to date in the ASME database via ASME Customer Care before opening a new application (before you click Apply).

Once you have logged in, you will be taken to your home page.  Click the Add New Application button and enter ASMEU in the window that appears. Once you press Apply you will be taken to the application

Education Information

Eligibility requires you to be accepted and enrolled full-time for both semesters in an accredited college, university or community college for the 2018–2019 academic year.

Transcripts

An electronic upload of your college transcript is submitted for your most current school. A high resolution electronic image of your official transcript should be uploaded. Transcript must be submitted in English or with an accompanying translation to English.
Please Note: If you plan to use a secure PDF as sent to you by your school you must first print it and/or make it into a non-secure PDF before uploading. It will not be viable if you don’t take this step, and not to do so makes your application unqualified for an ASME scholarship.

GPA (Grade Point Average)

Transcript should show your accumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale and you can use the GPA Calculator at the link provided in the application for guidance. Please use the GPA Calculator to translate other GPA scales to the 4.0 equivalent.

Financial Information

Please enter your anticipated resources and expenses from July 1 of the current year through June 30 for next year. If the answer is zero or the question does not apply to you, enter "0." This represents your income and expenditures during your full-time study in the upcoming academic year.

Activities

This section should show your engineering related extra activities. You may add up to five activities or none at all. First select the number of activities you want to enter, and when you have done so describe them all in the text box provided.

Essay

Submit an essay in the space provided, succinctly describing (as appropriate):

• Your personal interests and goals in mechanical engineering;
• Contributions to the profession (e.g., important publications, research, innovations, leadership, etc.);
• Participation and/or achievement in professional societies, school, community groups (e.g., offices held, programs developed, etc.); and
• Any other relevant facts you’d like to highlight that you feel may be pertinent (e.g., employment, family obligations, disabilities, etc.).

Recommendation(s)

Ask a faculty member, professor, or supervising engineer who knows your work to attest to on your character, engineering involvement and potential for leadership or for making a significant contribution to the mechanical engineering profession. This can be based upon specific examples drawn from your coursework, projects, or activities that support your Essay statement.

Following the instructions in the application, Submit at least one name of a recommender (or a maximum of two). If applying for the renewable scholarships one of the recommenders has to be either your Department Head/Chair or your Student Section Advisor.

Submit Application

You must click the "SUBMIT " button on the final tab/page to complete the application and mark it eligible for evaluation. Remember, you must only fill in the application once to be considered for all the ASME Scholarships.