NDSU CoCISE is a scholarship program designed to provide scholarship support and academic mentoring to talented and financially disadvantaged computer engineering, computer science, and management information systems students at NDSU.  The CoCISE program is funded by a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation.  The CoCISE scholarship awards will begin in Fall 2007 and approximately 30 scholarships will be awarded each year for the next four years.

The objectives of the CoCISE program include:

• Providing financial support to disadvantaged undergraduate students
  
• Providing academic mentoring for each scholarship recipient that
• helps insure the successful completion their degree
• improves and/or maintain their GPA
• helps achieve success in obtaining a reward career in their chosen field
• Increasing the numbers of women and minority group students, particularly Native Americans, in the computer engineering, computer science, management information systems, and pre-management information systems programs.