Financial Support

The department has several sources of financial support for highly qualified students. These include fellowships, research assistantships and teaching assistantships. In addition, a large number of external competitive fellowships/awards are available for students meeting the criteria of the sponsoring organization.

Sources of departmental support include:

• Block Fellowships: typically given to first-year students
• Teaching Assistantships: candidates must meet the campus language requirement
• Research Assistantships: provided by individual faculty to students in their research group
• Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship: open to terminal Ph.D. students showing exceptional promise of technical and scholarly work in civil and environmental engineering
• Medhat Haroun Engineering Fellowship: for Ph.D. students with an emphasis in Structural/Geotechnical Engineering
• Ballsells Fellowship: associated with the California-Catalonia Engineering Programs
• Additional Opportunities