Internships, Grants and Scholarships
OTREC partner organizations offer scholarships for students.
Read below to find out more.
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The Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation, located in the Center for Transportation Studies at Portland State University, is a collaborative partnership with the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon, and the College of Engineering at Oregon State University. IBPI offers several scholarships:
The Rex Burkholder and Lydia Rich Scholarship supports a graduate student who intends to pursue a career related to bicycle and pedestrian transportation.The Alta Planning + Design Scholarship supports a graduate student who is highly motivated to focus their studies on walking and cycling as mainstream forms of transportation.
The Bike Gallery Scholarship supports a graduate student who intends to pursue a career related to bicycle planning, design, advocacy or education. $2,500 award.Stephen Gomez, a local bicycle advocate, offers a $1,000 scholarship to a student who is highly motivated to focus studies at Portland State University on bicycling and walking as mainstream forms of transportation.
DKS, a leading engineering and planning firm, offers a $950 scholarship. The successful applicant will seek to better understand how communities integrate bicycling and walking through the engineering, design and planning processes. Click here to learn more about these opportunities.
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David Evans and Associates, Inc. 2008-2009 Scholarships - to assist recipients pursuing a bachelor’s degree in a course of study related to a career in one of DEA’s major business lines (water resources, energy, land development, or transportation) or our numerous technical specialties. Announcement.
WTS Portland Chapter Scholarship - Undergraduate and graduate awards of $2,000 are presented in the spring to women from Oregon and Southwest Washington who are pursuing a degree in a transportation-related field. More information: Scholarship Announcement and Application (Word file). More information about WTS Oregon and their scholarship program can be found here: WTS Oregon.
CUTC Student Award Nominations - The Council of University Transportation Centers’ Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award and Charley V. Wooten Memorial Award are given annually to four graduate students in transportation for the two best Ph.D. dissertations and M.S. theses. Also, the Neville A. Parker Award is presented annually for the two best non-thesis papers or projects in transportation submitted for the M.S. degree. Faculty advisers make the nominations. For award guidelines and nomination forms, go to: http://cutc.tamu.edu/awards/.
