College of Technology
Ph.D. in Technology
Policies and Guidelines for Financial Support Awards
for Doctoral Students
1. These awards are limited to students in the Ph.D. program for activities
directly related to fulfillment of their dissertation research or for course
requirements.
2. Student applying for this award must be registered for the course/s for
which he /she need/s support. The award request must be supported by
the course instructor or dissertation committee chair.
3. The applications for these awards will be reviewed on a first-come first-
serve basis and awards will be made until the funding is depleted for the
year.
4. These awards are for the purchase of supplies, materials, software and
licenses, etc. These awards are not for supporting travel, attendance to
conferences and symposia, purchase of capital equipment, computers,
laptops etc. There is a separate travel award available and students are
encouraged to use this separate award for all activities requiring travel.
5. All requests will be reviewed by the Doctoral Operation Committee (DOC)
and decisions on awards will be made on case-by-case basis. All awards
are subject to availability of funds and all award decisions are final.
6. The award amount must be spent before May 15
th
of the academic year in
which the award is issued.
7. Students receiving the award will be required to submit a brief summary
highlighting how this award was useful in their program of study. The
summary must be submitted to the PhD program office, (to the attention of
Tracy Rush-Byers), at the end of the academic year in which the award
was received.
