The Engineering College and Academic departments provide funding and other resources to many of our student project teams each year. Even teams without direct funding make use of College and Department resources including space, faculty time, and staff time. The College of Engineering now requires a formal annual registration and funding request process for all teams, as described below.

Each year, teams must submit a written application to Betsy East, Assistant Dean for Student Services. The application should be no longer than 7 pages plus a budget attachment submitted as one PDF. The application will be reviewed by department and college representatives. A subsequent meeting will be scheduled during which a team representative should be available to answer any follow-up questions in person.

This year’s schedule:
Workshop for students on funding process             September 9, 2009
178 Rhodes Hall
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Deadline for submission of applications                  September 16, 2009

Follow-up meeting                                                September 25, 2009
106 Rhodes Hall (Students)
151 Rhodes Hall (Faculty/Staff)
4:00 p.m.

Notification of funding decisions                             October 2, 2009

Note that some individual departments and schools have additional requirements for registered teams that are separate from this process.

Who needs to submit an application?

Any student project team (except undergraduate research groups working with a faculty member) that answers yes to any of the following questions is required to participate in this process:

• Participates in a competition
• Requires the use of space or equipment
• Requires funding from college or department(s)
• Involves more than 10 students

Documents you need for application

Application Instructions(download PDF doc)

Application (download Word doc)

Budget Template (download Excel doc)

Please submit Application and Budget Template in one PDF to Emily Tompkins Minturn at eft24@cornell.edu