Joseph and Gabriella Pataki Scholarship for International Female Students in Engineering

Joseph Pataki is a Sir George Williams alumnus who graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in 1974. He is the President and Founding member of Quad Engineering Inc – a company that designs, builds and supplies heavy industrial machinery for the steel industry since 1983. Joe credits his business success to his education received at Concordia. His wife Gabriella supported his studies and their family by working full time for Bell Canada.

This Endowment donation aims to fund an annual scholarship for female international undergraduate students in engineering.

The Scholarship shall be granted through competition, on the basis of outstanding academic achievement as assessed by the University during the admission process, to newly-admitted full-time female international students beginning a course of study leading to a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.

Candidates may be international students only.

Concordia offers need-based In-Course Bursaries to returning Bachelor's students in the Fall semester.

Application deadline The 2024-2025 Undergraduate In-Course Bursary Program will be open April 1, 2024.

In-Course Bursaries are awarded by the Financial Aid and Awards Office to previously admitted students following an application-based competition that includes a financial need test and holistic committee review. Applicants are notified of the results after the Financial Aid and Awards Office receives results from the bursary committee.

The In-Course Bursary program normally open April 1, 2024 and will close on May 15, 2024.