School of Engineering

Take your engineering experience to the next level with co-ops and internships. Earn a paycheck while gaining relevant work experience to boost your competitive edge and figure out where your true passions lie.

Through community-engaged engineering experiences, the ETHOS Center connects students with communities in responsive, reciprocal partnerships to co-create technical solutions that advance social justice, human rights and sustainability for the common good.

Get involved with, and solve, problems that matter. The National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholars Program is a multi-year, research-based program designed to prepare you to be a 21st-century problem solver.

Open to all UD students.

Graduate Assistantships

The University of Dayton School of Engineering has several assistantship positions available that are annual, renewable and include tuition and a monthly stipend. The assistantships are available through all engineering departments and include responsibilities in teaching or research. Master’s and doctoral students are welcome to apply.

To ensure consideration for the next fall semester, we begin reviewing applications for open positions on March 31. Positions remain open until filled.

To be considered, students must meet the following requirements:

1. GPA of 3.5 or greater
2. Graduate school application submitted in full. No separate application required.

Current UD undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for assistantships. Assistantship recipients will be notified no later than May 1.

Additional Fellowships, Grants and Assistantships

• Aircraft Energy Harvesting and Management Ph.D. Assistantship: Focuses on development of energy harvesting and management strategies for aircrafts. Green card or citizenship is required.
• SOCHE Fellowships: SOCHE will award up to 15 three-year fellowships to new doctoral students studying engineering or computer science at one of the three member institutions — the Air Force Institute of Technology, the University of Dayton or Wright State University. These fellowships support full-time, research-based doctoral study and will be awarded to candidates with exceptional demonstrated capability and aptitude. Awards include a stipend of $27,500 plus full tuition for three years of study and research.
• SOCHE Scholarships: Full-tuition scholarships are available for part-time and full-time graduate students in engineering. For highly qualified, full-time doctoral students, opportunities exist for full-tuition with yearly stipend.
• Electro-Optics Assistantships: Two types of assistantships are available: teaching and research. The teaching assistantships are usually done in collaboration with the physics department. Research assistantships are given based on a student's research interest. 
• Hans von Ohain Fellowship: Awarded to a full-time doctoral student with excellent academic credentials who is interested in entering the aerospace profession. Must be a native-born American. For more information, contact your department chair or the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
• Ohio Space Grant Consortium Fellowships: Competitively awarded fellowships to graduate students pursuing degrees in one of the STEM disciplines at Ohio Space Grant Consortium universities. Awardees are required to participate in university research projects and present results at the annual OSGC Research Symposium.
• Renewable and Clean Energy Research and Teaching Assistantships: The Renewable and Clean Energy program has a limited number of research and teaching assistantships available to students. Approximately 50% of RCL students receive some type of assistantship. In most cases, students are offered research and teaching assistantships based on in-class performance and a demonstrated interest in a research topic.

REU: Semiconductor Electronics and Photonics is a residential summer program for students from U.S. universities. Participants will learn about semiconductor materials, production of micro/nanoelectric and photonic devices, careers and more. They will also hands-on training in fabrication of microelectronics in a cleanroom environment.

REU: STEM Research for Social Change is a residential summer program for students from U.S. universities. Participants engage in cutting-edge research related to engineering, chemistry and physics, and they work with a faculty mentor on research that has a meaningful and positive impact on society.

Gain and enhance your problem-solving skills in innovation and entrepreneurship. Stitt Scholars collaborate with the L. William Crotty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and the Entrepreneurs' Center at The Hub Powered by PNC Bank for impactful experiential learning opportunities.

Learn how engineering creates a global impact through our engineering-specific study abroad and away opportunities. Each program focuses on a topic within engineering — from sustainability to architecture and civil engineering.

Choose from week-long or month-long options — all led by UD engineering faculty. Our programs typically run during spring break and the beginning of the summer semester.

Programs are open to all engineering students, but may be limited to academic class.

Through the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, undergraduate engineering and engineering technology majors can spend 10 weeks working on a faculty-led research project.