Engineering Scholarships

For many years the Engineers Club members have contributed to a fund from which small scholarships were awarded annually.

Beginning in 2020, the CEC has the pleasure of distributing engineering scholarships and educational grants from a large bequest received from the estate of Almeda & Earl Lee Frazier of Soddy Daisy.  Almeda was President of the CEC in 1981 and an active member for decades.  The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga (CFGC) has been engaged to administer this program in consultation with the CEC leadership.  There are four parts to the Frazier Engineering Education & Development fund:

1.  Annual grant of $10,000 to the CSCC Foundation (Chatt State) to be distributed as scholarships to aspiring engineering students.  Selections are made by CSCC's internal application process.

2.  Annual grant of $10,000 to the UTC Foundation to be distributed as scholarships to committed engineering students.  Selections are made by UTC's internal application process.

3a.  Annual grant of $10,000 to the CFGC Engineering Education Fund to be distributed to students graduated from local high schools who are diligently pursuing engineering degrees at colleges or universities other than CSCC and UTC.  Applications are managed by the CFGC--call them or or see their web site at https://www.cfgc.org/scholarships for more details.

3b.  Annual grant of $5,000 to the Bryan College/Vogel School of Engineering to be distributed as scholarships to committed engineering students.  Selections are made by Bryan's internal application process.

4.  Up to $10,000 annually in small portions to support STEM-related education in the local region--such as FIRST Robotics programs, Science Fair, and STEM teacher training.  Send the form below (or its equivalent contents) by email to info@chattanoogaengineersclub.org to have a project or activity considered.  Note that entrance fees to recognized STEM competitions are routinely approved.

Examples of STEM activities that have received funding through part-4:

• 2020 - Supported the STEM High School FRC Robotics team toward entrance into an additional competition in Memphis which should increase their readiness for further competitions. Many of these students grew up through the FIRST Lego program and invest substantial amounts of time in this pursuit.
• 2021 - Provided the first robot kit for a group of Bryan College engineering students who wanted to start a collegiate level VEX team to continue their passion for that program which they'd already participated in through high school.  The team actively competed in 2022, and hosted a very successful high school VEX tournament on the Bryan campus in the fall of 2022.
• 2022 - Scholarships of $500 each awarded to Bryan College and Cleveland (TN) State Community College engineering programs.
• 2023 - Scholarship funding of $4000 awarded to Bryan College Engineering.
• 2023 - STEM funding of $1000 to assist a winning High School student attend the FRC national competition.
• 2024 - STEM funding to cover the costs of the NASA engineer who visited Chattanooga for our 100th Anniversary celebration.
• 2024 - Began Scholarship funding of $5000 to Bryan College of Engineering, which is now accredited.  
• 2024 - Assisted a STEM school robotics student in attending World competition in Houston TX.  Provided $1000 to the Bryan College VEX team for materials related to competition.
• 2024 - Provided $2500 to Ivy Academy toward their project developing solar charging backpacks for Ukrainian students.
• 2025 - Began to underwrite part of the Spark Your Mind elementary school experiment boxes program coming out of UTC.  Awarded scholarships of $2000 each to Lee University and Southern Adventist University for their new engineering programs.  
• 2025 & 2026 - Helped underwrite the cost of Red Wing Robotics (community team) participating in advanced competitions.
• 2026 - Provided $1500 to Middle Valley Elementary school to improve the effectiveness of their STEM lab.

Chattanooga Engineers Club STEM Funding Request Form.pdf