The Computer and Information Science (CIS) department of Penn’s School of Engineering recently announced the 2019 recipients of the JP Eckert Master’s Fellowship. This fellowship honors J. Presper Eckert, co-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania. 

This fellowship provides outstanding master’s students who are US citizens or US permanent residents $10,000 towards tuition. The purpose of the fellowship is to provide financial support to master’s students and to support the University’s interest in obtaining educational benefits by promoting student body diversity. 

All incoming and existing master’s students in each of the six CIS-affiliated master’s programs with at least two semesters remaining in the program are eligible to apply for the JP Eckert Fellowship. Eckert fellows are selected through a highly competitive process, where fellows are evaluated based on their academic achievements, community service and statement of purpose on diversity and outreach in STEM fields. The 2019 Eckert Fellows are: 

• Iciar Andreu Angulo, Computer Graphics and Game Technology (CGGT) 
• Perpetual Baffour, Computer and Information Technology (CIT) 
• Ari Benkov, Computer and Information Science (CIS) 
• Brandon Joel Gonzalez, Robotics (ROBO) 
• Karen Shen, Data Science (DATS) 
• Eric Micallef, Embedded Systems (EMBS)