In July 2018, we raised a lot of money for our scholarship efforts, which ultimately went over $100K especially due to our fellow senior alumni Ashraf Habibullah‘s benevolent matching at our Annual Dinner event.

In May 2019, we signed an agreement with The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to establish an endowment for granting scholarships under the banner of ‘Ashraf Habibullah N.E.D. Scholarship/Fellowship‘, as you can see in the pictures below from that signing ceremony, with Zulfi Ahmed (Director) & Erum Rahman (Former President), who represented our organization. We truly appreciate all the support that all of our member alumni have provided to this effort and establishment of endowment.

Here’s the latest update on the current state of this scholarship.

Ashraf Habibullah N.E.D. Scholarship/Fellowship Update

Endowment Value (as of 12/31/2020)
Book Value – $100,201.40
Market Value – $114,771.65

Scholarship Recipients
Each of the following 5 students received $2,000 in the Fall of 2020.

Wasta Shafquat, undergraduate student, BS in Mechanical Engineering
Sadiq Godil, undergraduate student, BS in Mechanical Engineering
Hira Khan, undergraduate student, BS in Information Technology & Systems
Sarah Karani, undergraduate student, BS in Supply Chain Management
Mohammad Imad Sharfuddin, graduate student, MS in Energy Management (BS in Petroleum Engineering from NED)

Application Process
The application process will open up again this year in mid-March with an end of April deadline. The scholarships are then disbursed in the subsequent fall semester.

Note: If there isn’t a sufficient number of applicants, UTD may extend the deadline. They did extend the deadline in 2020 due to pandemic.

More Info: See links below …

Ashraf Habibullah N.E.D. Scholarship/Fellowship

Scholarship Listing – Financial Aid – The University of Texas at Dallas