The Department of Defense has a program called SMART (http://smart.asee.org/) that will pay:
- Full tuition and education related fees (does not include items such as meal plans, housing, or parking)
- Stipend paid at a rate of $25,000 - $38,000 depending on degree pursuing (may be prorated depending on award length)
- Summer research internships
- Health Insurance allowance up to $1,200 per calendar year
- Miscellaneous Supplies Allowance of $1,000 per academic year
- Mentoring
- Employment placement after graduation (this is not for uniformed military service
According to their stats, 22 of these scholarships have been awarded to CMU students from 2008 to 2015. These are for for current students (you cannot apply until your freshman year) with Majors in:
• Mechanical Engineering
• Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Oceanography
• Operations Research (technical tracks only)
• Physics
• Electrical Engineering
• Geosciences
• Industrial and Systems Engineering (technical tracks only)
• Information Sciences
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mathematics
• Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
• Biosciences
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Sciences
• Computer and Computational Sciences