John McEntyre Award for Engineering Leadership

Award created thanks to the generosity of John McEntyre

Award Overview

Value of the award:
Minimum $1,000
Number of awards:
1
Award frequency:
Annual
Level or program of study:
Undergraduate
Application Type:
Online Scholarship and Bursaries portal, accessible via uoZone.
Application Deadline:
November 3
Renewable:
No

Purpose of this Award

To support an undergraduate student at the School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering who demonstrates leadership and has exceptional technical hands-on skills.

Eligibility Criteria

The candidate must:

  1. be a Canadian citizen, a permanent resident, a person with protected or refugee status, or an international student
  2. be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Ottawa
  3. be enrolled in at least one course given by the School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation (SEDTI)
  4. demonstrate leadership and technical hands-on skills

How to Apply

Submitted in the Online Scholarship and Bursaries portal, accessible via uoZone, and must include:

  1. a CV from the applicant demonstrating exceptional technical hands-on skills
  2. a letter (max. 500 words) describing the applicants leadership skills

About this Award

This scholarship was generously created by John McEntyre, a distinguished graduate and donor to the University of Ottawa. After earning a bachelor’s (’65) and a master’s (’69) in electrical engineering at the University, where he taught a computer programming and numerical analysis course, Mr. McEntyre went on to enjoy a successful career at Honeywell and Nortel. While at Honeywell, he wrote, modified and supported operating system and communications software in Montreal, Phoenix and, lastly, Tehran at the time of the 1979 revolution. He later joined Nortel Networks, working on quality management, research funding and software development in Ottawa, Mississauga and Silicon Valley. He was at the forefront of the digital revolution. He hopes that the students of today and tomorrow will be as fortunate as he was and see things they hardly dare dream about become reality.