Funding Opportunities Search for MEEN4900.708 Students at University of North Texas - Prof, Assignments of Mechanical Engineering

Download Funding Opportunities Search for MEEN4900.708 Students at University of North Texas - Prof and more Assignments Mechanical Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! MEEN4900.708 Dr. Matthew J. Traum Supervised Upper Division Undergraduate Research Experience University of North Texas (UNT) Fall Semester 2008 Assignment 2: Funding Opportunities Search (3 Points) Assignment Due: Friday, September 12, 2008 @ 11am Please submit this assignment to Dr. Traum in hard copy form in class on 9/12/2008 This assignment is to be completed individually A critical activity of researchers is to raise money to fund their work. Students will learn how to find grants and other funding opportunities by attending a seminar by the College of Engineering Grant Writer, Otilia Sanchez. Students will search for funding opportunities, including grants, fellowships, and scholarships and submit a list of at least five possibilities that are in alignment with their research team’s activities. The list will include the name of each funding opportunity, how it was located, and a one- or two-sentence synopsis of how the research team’s activities or the student’s personal preparation fit into the guidelines and scope of the funding opportunity. Notes: 1. Student teams must submit a proposal or application to at least one of the funding opportunities identified in Assignment 2 as part of a future MEEN 4900.708 assignment. Students should keep this requirement in mind while performing their funding opportunity searches. (In other words, don’t pick five 100-page-minimum National Science Foundation grant solicitations; pick at least two or three that can be written in a week or two).