WATer Engineering Research Scholars (WATER Scholars)

沃特工程研究学者（WATER Scholars）计划支持经济困难的学生，他们在与水有关的研究中表现出学术承诺和兴趣。 招聘工作的目标是来自各种本科工程项目的代表性不足的群体的学生。 每个学者在获得土木工程系或生物和农业工程系硕士学位的同时获得两年的支持。 为了确保学者的成功和最终毕业，该项目提供写作讲习班，专业发展研讨会，行业实地考察，并由教师和高年级研究生指导学者。 该项目的目标是提高工程人员队伍的质量、数量和多样性，特别强调建设与水有关领域的工作人员专门知识。

The WATer Engineering Research Scholars (WATER Scholars) program is supporting financially needy students who exhibit academic promise and interest in water-related research. Recruitment efforts are targeting students from underrepresented groups from a variety of undergraduate engineering programs. Each scholar is being supported for two years while earning a master's degree from the Department of Civil Engineering or the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. To ensure scholars' success and eventual graduation, the project is providing writing workshops, professional development seminars, industry field trips, and mentoring of scholars by faculty and senior graduate students. The goals of the project are to increase the quality, quantity and diversity of the engineering workforce, with particular emphasis on building workforce expertise in water-related areas.