Digital Avionics Scholarships

The AIAA Foundation Undergraduate Scholarships Program offers scholarships to college sophomores, juniors, and seniors each year, and recipients can apply to renew their scholarship annually until they reach graduation.

Through its annual Graduate Awards Program, the AIAA Foundation presents awards to graduate students doing excellent research in the air and space sciences.

Undergraduate Scholarship and Graduate Award applications must be submitted online. Applicants must be AIAA Student Members.

Applicants may apply for up to three (3) scholarships or graduate awards. On the application form, you will indicate your primary award preference, along with two (2) secondary awards for which you would like to be considered. Please note that applicants with no demonstrated academic interest in the subject area of the award will not be considered, so please carefully select the awards that most closely correspond to your area of academic interest.

Undergraduate Scholarships

AIAA Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson Scholarship: $10,000*

*This scholarship is made possible by donations from the Hewson Family Foundation and Lockheed Martin and is available to female students demonstrating financial need. Eligible high school seniors may apply if they have been accepted into a college or university to pursue a degree in:

• Aerospace Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics

Important Note! All materials for the AIAA Lockheed Martin Marillyn Hewson Scholarship, including letters of recommendation, are due by 2359 hrs EST, 31 December. This follows a different timeline than other scholarships or awards

Daedalus 88 Scholarship: $10,000*

Note: Applicants should call out their entrepreneurial spirit by describing their leadership of a student-initiated, hands-on multidisciplinary aerospace engineering project.  Applicants must be willing to make a presentation, at a site that is mutually agreeable, on the student-led project in which they participated.

David and Catherine Thompson Space Technology Scholarship: $10,000

Vicki and George Muellner Scholarship for Aerospace Engineering: $5,000

Wernher von Braun Scholarship: $5,000

Space Transportation Scholarship: $1,500

Leatrice Gregory Pendray Scholarship: $1,250*

Note: This scholarship is only available to female applicants only.

Rocky Mountain Section Scholarship: $500

Note: This scholarship is only available to students studying at accredited institutions located within the geographic boundaries of the AIAA Rocky Mountain Professional Section.

Digital Avionics Scholarships

Cary Spitzer Digital Avionics Scholarship: $3,000

Denise Ponchak Digital Avionics Scholarship: $3,000*

This scholarship is only available to non-US Students studying at a non-US University. Students from embargoed countries are ineligible to apply for this scholarship.

Dr. Amy R. Pritchett Digital Avionics Scholarship: $3,000

Dr. James Rankin Digital Avionics Scholarship: $3,000

Ellis F. Hitt Digital Avionics Scholarship: $3,000