2021 AAMI Foundation Scholarship Application |
The AAMI Foundation, through its Awards Committee, awards ten scholarships each year:
- Nine to students studying to become biomedical equipment technicians, or health technology specific engineering, including clinical engineering.
- One to an individual studying to become a health systems engineer (Please use this application form).
Each scholarship is worth $3,000 and is awarded in a one-time, lump sum check to each scholarship winner at the AAMI Exchange in Charlotte, NC.
How to Apply:
The deadline for applications is January 4, 2021.
AAMI membership is NOT required to submit a scholarship application.
Please contact awards@aami.org with any questions.
Please contact awards@aami.org with any questions.
Step 1: Determine Your Eligibility
Applicants must be entering or current full-time college students seeking a career in the health technology profession at an accredited college or university. Applicants must still be considered current students in June 2021 to be eligible for all AAMI scholarships. Each applicant is only eligible to win one scholarship offered by AAMI in a given year.
- Eligibility requirements for the biomedical equipment technician scholarship
- Eligibility requirements for the clinical or other healthcare engineering scholarship
- Eligibility requirements for the health systems engineer scholarship
Step 2: Write an Essay
Applicants must demonstrate a combination of technical aptitude, academic excellence, and commitment to the health technology profession. To document these attributes, applicants are required to submit a short essay (500-700 words) explaining how they view themselves fitting into the profession and describing their evidence of academic excellence and the other skills mentioned above.
Step 3: Obtain Supporting Documents
- Applicants must submit two letters of recommendation from professional or academic contact addressing work ethics, attitude, and potential contributions to the profession.
- Applicants must also submit their most recent transcript from an accredited college, or a high school transcript, and documentation of college admission into the relevant program.
Step 4: Complete the Scholarship Application
Complete the form below, including uploading your essay and all supporting documents.
Important Notes for Scholarship Applicants:
Complete the form below, including uploading your essay and all supporting documents.
Important Notes for Scholarship Applicants:
- Scholarship recipients will be asked to provide proof of course registration before the check is granted.
- Recipients will be selected by the AAMI Awards Committee, whose decisions are final.
- Deliberations of the AAMI Awards committee are confidential.
- Scholarship recipients will be notified in writing, by June 1, or earlier.
- Scholarship recipients will be announced in AAMI publications, on AAMI’s website, an