Women in Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship

Sponsored by the GE Women’s Network through the Society of Women Engineers

2017-2018 Academic Year

Instructions for Applicants

About the Award:

  • One (1) $1000 scholarship will be awarded to eligible candidates.
  • Award recipient will receive one year of paid student membership fees for SWE.
  • Award recipient will be referred for internship consideration to the GE Healthcare Early Identification Program.
  • A panel of GE Women’s Network and Society of Women Engineers Wisconsin Section professionals will judge the applications.
  • Awardis based on a minimum of 10 eligible applications

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Enrolled in an Engineering Program for the 2017-2018academic year with Freshman through Junior standing.
  • Pursuing a Bachelors degree at one of the following institutions:
  • Milwaukee School of Engineering,
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, or
  • Marquette University.
  • Applicant must be female.
  • Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
  • Membership in SWE is not required, but encouraged.
  • Submit completed form by February 28, 2018

Submittal:

  • The application is set up as a form. The form entry fields will expand as you type. Please provide the necessary information requested. Do not duplicate information. Provide accurate dates where requested.
  • Attach a copy of your college transcript; this need not be an original.
  • Save the completed application with your name as the file name: “GE_Firstname.Lastname.doc” (example: “GE_Jane.Doe.doc”).
  • Submit your scholarship application by email to and
  • Applications are due by midnight central time February 28, 2018.
  • If you have any questions, feel free to contact and

Scholarship winners will be notified by March 31, 2018 and may be asked to attend an awards presentation.

About General Electric Company (GE)

GE is a global infrastructure, finance and media company taking on the world’s toughest challenges. From everyday light bulbs to fuel cell technology, to cleaner, more efficient jet engines, GE has continually shaped our world with groundbreaking innovations for over 130 years. GE serves customers in more than 170 countries and employs more than 327,000 people worldwide.

GE is made up of four businesses, each of which includes a number of units aligned for growth. Our businesses fuel the global economy and improve people's lives. Our four global research centers attract the world's best technical minds. With more than 3,000 researchers working toward the next breakthrough, GE is positioned to continually innovate, invent and reinvent.

About GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.
Headquartered in Chicago, US, GE Healthcare is a $19 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 50,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at

About GE Women’s Network

The Women's Network is all about growth. It exists for the more than 100,000 women working at GE to cultivate their leadership skills, business practices, personal contacts and career opportunities. By engaging and developing our membership in areas such as technology and sales, we are working to provide the growth leaders who will ensure GE's success going forward.

The Women's Network was created in 1997 to help the women working at GE advance their careers and the company's business. This effort includes sharing the experience, best-practices, and knowledge of successful women role models: the executive team represents a diverse group of women from each of GE's businesses and critical corporate functions. Today the rapidly growing Women's Network has evolved into a worldwide organization of over 125 Hubs (Chapters) in 39 countries helping thousands of women around the world.

All Women's Network events share the goal of professional development. Typical examples include workshops, speaker engagements, mentoring and networking activities. We also reach out to the communities in which we operate, partnering with local organizations to contribute physical and financial resources for those in need.

At a global level we have established a scholarship program aimed at supporting qualified women in college. Over the past decade, GE has provided over $750,000 in academic scholarships to young women across the country. Our goal is to support young women interested in technical or business careers while building a future pipeline of candidates for GE's entry-level leadership programs. Our priorities will ensure that women are well prepared to realize more and better opportunities for themselves and for GE.

About GE Healthcare Early Identification Program

Internship and co-op opportunities for college students

The Early Identification Program (EID) at GE Healthcareis aimed at identifying and attracting college students earlyin their college career for internships and co-ops atGE Healthcare. The program offers a combination ofprofessional and personal development, and includeschallenging assignments, technical training andrewarding community service events.

The EID program offers you the opportunity toexperience a real-life work environment atGE Healthcare, while developing theprofessionalism so critical to a successful career.

For more information on internships and career opportunities at GE, please see

Women in Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship Application

Sponsored by the GE Women’s Network through the Society of Women Engineers

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Essay Question

Please submit an essay on how more women in Technology might help increase the number of women in leadership positions. How would you influence a future where women are encouraged to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math, as much as men are.

Please limit your response to 350 words.

SWE/GE Scholarship Application 2017-2018