The GCSP is a prestigious national program that increases your understanding of engineering concepts and their application to the real world. It also sets you apart from other engineers in your field, and can help you excel in grad school. Additionally, you will:

• Receive a certificate of achievement from the Price College of Engineering
• Be recognized at the graduation ceremonies as a GCSP participant
• Receive recognition from the President of the National Academy of Engineering (looks great to future employers!)
• Have a unique way to earn an Honors Degree
• Gain access to scholarships opportunities
• Have access to GCPS conferences where you can expand your network
• Learn the skills needed to change the world for the better

To complete the program, students will build a portfolio throughout their undergraduate experience encompassing five components:

• Research experience: Project or independent research related to a Grand Challenge.
• Interdisciplinary curriculum: Preparing engineering students to work at the overlap with public policy, business, law, ethics, human behavior, risk as well as medicine and the sciences. Examples that span these disciplines with a coherent theme are Energy and the Environment, Sustainability, Uncertainty and Optimization, etc.
• Entrepreneurship: Preparing students to translate invention to innovation; to develop market ventures that scale to global solutions in the public interest.
• Global Dimension: Developing the students’ global perspective necessary to address challenges that are inherently global as well as to lead innovation in a global economy.
• Service Learning: Developing and deepening students’ social consciousness and their motivation to bring their technical expertise to bear on societal problems.

This program will be completed over the course of your undergraduate experience- while it may seem like a daunting task, the Grand Challenges Scholars Program is designed to work in conjunction with your undergrad experience. Please reach out to your Grand Challenges Director if you have questions or need guidance.

Once accepted into the program, students must:

• Submit to the GCSP director a proposed GCSP Plan – this is due within one year of beginning the program.
• Remain in good academic standing. 3.0 GPA minimum or if completing Honors Degree/ Certificate then must maintain a 3.5 minimum GPA.
• Complete the proposed GCSP Portfolio including the five GCSP components at least two months prior to graduation.

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Incoming and current Price College of Engineering students (freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors) are welcome to apply to the GCSP by filling out the application form below. Engineering students are encouraged to apply as early as possible during their undergraduate studies.

If you run into problems submitting this form, please email Lexi Crabb.

Apply Below

Name *

Academic Year * FreshmanSophomoreJuniorSenior

Dropdown * Please Select a ProgramBiomedical EngineeringChemical EngineeringCivil and Environmental EngineeringConstruction EngineeringComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceData ScienceElectrical EngineeringEntertainment Arts and Engineering (Games)Material Science and EngineeringMechanical EngineeringPre-EngineeringSoftware Development

What is your declared major? If you have not yet declared, or are in a pre-engineering status, please reach out to Lexi.

Email *

Will only be used for GCSP communications.

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Why do you want to become a Grand Challenge Scholar? *

Which Grand Challenge interests you the most? Why? *

If you are not a freshman: Have you already completed any activities / courses that satisfy one or more of the five GCSP curricular components?

Please describe how each activity / course fulfills a curricular component(s).

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