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Eberhart Scholarship The Department of Bioengineering offers Master of Science and Doctor of

The Robert and Carol Eberhart endowed scholarship is awarded to deserving students in the bioengineering department. If awarded this scholarship, the student will receive in-state tuition for the next Fall and Spring semesters as well as $500 for those semesters.

Following are the criteria for eligibility for the scholarship:
Must be a student of the Bioengineering Department
2. Must have completed a minimum of 12 semester hours of Bioengineering courses
3. Must have a minimum GPA of 3.5
4. Must be enrolled through the Spring semester
The announcement for students to apply will be made from time to time, but mostly at the end of the summer and early fall semester.

Previous Eberhart Scholarship Recipients:

2012-2013: Sandeep Shah
Oguz Yetkin

2011-2012:      Princy Prasad
                        Ronak Patel
                        Poorva Abhyankar

2010-2011: Nivedita Khobragade
Manas Bhalerao

2009-2010: Binod Thapa-Chhetry
Aditya Bashaboyina

2008-2009: Zi-Jing Lin

2007-2008: Susheil Uthamaraj
Cyril Varghese

2006-2007: Makito Sato

Potvin Award The Department of Bioengineering offers Master of Science and Doctor of

Dr. Alfred Potvin began his academic career at UT Arlington in 1966 and served as the first Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program from 1974 to 1984. Highly acclaimed throughout his career, Dr. Potvin is regarded as one of the outstanding leaders in biomedical engineering. This award recognizes students with high academic and research performance.

Previous Potvin Awardees:

2012:   Aniket Wadajkar
            Jennifer Bell
            Vikrant Sharma
            Ronak Patel
            Jeff Compton

2011:   Richard Tran
            Aydin Farajidavar
            Stephen Kunkel
            Eduardo Martinez

2010:   Paul Thevenot
            Soujanya Kona
            Gauri Bhave
            Bradley Elmer

2009: Mohammad Al-Abed
            Ashwin Nair
            Robert Francis
            James Nyagilo

2008: Tré Welch
            Maham Rahimi
            Jagannath Dey
            Renuka Parlapalli

2007:   Dheerendra Kashyap
            Abhimanyu Sabnis
            Paul Thevenot
            Nirad Zinzuwadia
            Patricia Gomez

2006:   Robert Collins Watson
            Marisol Chang
            Sripad Ram
            Brian Budnik

2005:   Ryohei Takeuchi
            Amogh Kothare
            Piyush Gehalot
            Pedram Bohluli
            Mengna Xia

Teaching and Research Assistantships for Doctoral Studies The Department of Bioengineering offers Master of Science and Doctor of

Enhanced Graduate Teaching Assistantship and Doctoral Teaching Fellowship packages are available on a competitive basis to students beginning their first semester of study in UT Arlington doctoral or doctoral-bound programs. These packages provide tuition coverage and a competitive assistantship stipend for up to five years. For students in STEM programs, this support may consist of some combination of Enhanced Graduate Teaching Assistantships (EGTAs) with full tuition fellowships, graduate teaching assistantships with STEM tuition fellowships, or grant-funded research assistantships with STEM tuition fellowships. Requirements include a 50% graduate assistantship, full-time enrollment, and unconditional admission. Interested students should contact BE Advisors for more information.