Qualcomm Student Scholarship 2023/24

Qualcomm Incorporated, a renowned US engineering company with offices in Cork, has collaborated with the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at DCU to award the prestigious Qualcomm Student Scholarship for the academic year 2023/2024. This highly coveted scholarship reflects Qualcomm's commitment to nurturing the next generation of diverse engineering talent.

For years, Qualcomm has been at the forefront of innovation, creating groundbreaking semiconductors, software, and wireless technology services. The company employs 400 engineers in Ireland and is notable for its inclusive staff base and long running support of Irish universities in fostering the next generation of diverse engineering talent. Now, Qualcomm is taking its dedication a step further by empowering students to pursue their engineering dreams through the Qualcomm Student Scholarship at DCU. Through this scholarship, Qualcomm aims to provide financial assistance and valuable opportunities for students in their pursuit of excellence in engineering and computing.

Matthew Horne O'Connor and Alyssa Nadinne Mahiluddin are the deserving recipients of the Qualcomm Student Scholarship 2023/2024, recognizing their exceptional talent, dedication, and potential in the field. Qualcomm's investment in these bright minds reflects its commitment to supporting the future leaders of the engineering industry. In an age where technology is advancing at lightning speed, Qualcomm understands the importance of fostering young talent and nurturing their passion for engineering.

This Qualcomm Student Scholarship is designed to assist two students from historically underrepresented demographic groups, in the second year of their undergraduate studies in Electronic and Computer Engineering. In doing so, this scholarship represents a small, but important, step in acknowledging, and attempting to redress, a traditional lack of diversity within the discipline as a whole.

This scholarship is a key component of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing STEM Initiative, a special success program supported by the university. The Faculty is committed to the promotion of STEM to historically underrepresented groups, and it is the hope that the financial support of this scholarship (in the form of a bursary to the value of €1,500) will help to scaffold the development of its recipients and provide them with the bandwidth to grow a meaningful future in the engineering profession. Congratulations to this year’s scholars, Matthew Horne O'Connor and Alyssa Nadinne Mahiluddin, two students undertaking Year 2 of the BEng in Electronic and Computer Engineering.