The Unofficial SMART Scholarship Forum

Hi, I am a civil engineering PhD student, and I am finding it particularly difficult to describe all of my research experience, dissertation ideas, and future research goals in 5000 characters. I have 2 undergrad internship/research experiences and 3 graduate research projects that are especially re...

Phew, thanks.

Interesting. Great advice, thanks.

Ok, great. I know I want to work for USACE, but I'm not sure what job they would want me to do. I've identified some specific things they work on to mention in my application, but I could go either a research or implementation route. How would you recommend I look up job requirements for someone in ...

I did not recieve any notification when my references submitted this year, but you can check under "application status."

Anyone else having trouble getting the notification through to references? 2/5 have told me they did not recieve it, 1 ended up in spam.

I graduated from college with a B.A. in environmental studies, then went on to get an associates in engineering. I am now in my second year of a PhD program in civil engineering. On the application there is no way to list a non-STEM degree under "degree pursued" in the academic background section (o...

Hi, I am a PhD student applying in the second year of my program. It seems strange that they would require high school transcripts for PhD students, and I graduated from high school 10 years ago. However, the application does not indicate that this is waived for graduate students. Does anyone know i...