No. It's basically allocating funding for 250 PhD seats across a couple top engineering programs (CMU, UCSD, UIUC, Columbia SEAS, Penn SEAS, etc) with the expectation that said research would be linked with an industrial partner (eg. HPE, Bayer, Nvidia)
Edit: I just reread your comment. I think it is for students who are already doing their MS or have previously done so and are applying to PhD programs
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No. It's basically allocating funding for 250 PhD seats across a couple top engineering programs (CMU, UCSD, UIUC, Columbia SEAS, Penn SEAS, etc) with the expectation that said research would be linked with an industrial partner (eg. HPE, Bayer, Nvidia)
Edit: I just reread your comment. I think it is for students who are already doing their MS or have previously done so and are applying to PhD programs