Scholarship and Fellowship Information

List of Fellowship Opportunities

Davis Langdon Scholarship Program

ADSC Grad Scholarship

GSI Fellowships

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADSC Scholarship for Civil Engineering Students Entering Graduate School in the Academic Year 2008 – 2009

 

ADSC: The International Association of Foundation Drilling invites applications to apply for a $3,000 graduate scholarships from United States and Canadian citizens for graduate study in geotechnical or structural engineering.  Applicants must be currently enrolled in an ABET or CEAB accredited engineering program or be a graduate from such a program, and must plan to enter or continue graduate school during the current academic year.  A maximum of fourteen scholarships will be awarded for the academic year beginning in the Fall of 2008.  Full-time students are defined as being enrolled in 12 or more graduate school hours a semester.  Part-time students are those enrolled in less than 12 graduate school hours, who also must work full- or part-time.  In addition to the scholarship, winners will be flown (travel and lodging expenses paid) to the ADSC Annual Meeting, and be formally introduced to the membership.

Each full-time scholarship recipient will be paid in two equal installments of $1,500, and will include liaison opportunities with ADSC contractor members near the recipient’s graduate school.  Payments will be made upon receipt of evidence of current enrollment as a regular full-time student in good academic standing in a geotechnical or structural engineering program at the Masters level or higher. 

Part-time scholarship recipients will receive $500 per semester (to a maximum of $3,000) as long as the student is enrolled in part-time graduate engineering courses.  Payments will be made each semester upon receipt of evidence of current enrollment as a student in good academic standing in a geotechnical or structural engineering program at the Masters or higher level.  Special consideration and attention will be paid to past and present work experience.  In order to make payments, additional information (such as social security number) will be required of the scholarship recipients.

Application Requirements

Submit your application on the forms provided in this packet.  To be considered, all application materials, including academic transcripts and letters of reference, must be received at ADSC Headquarters in Dallas, Texas, by April 15, 2008.  Applications must be typewritten. 

Order a current, official transcript of your academic records and have it sent directly to ADSC Headquarters.  Transcripts should be the most current available and include all of your undergraduate work.

Request two letters of reference from persons familiar with your academic or professionally related experience.  Write your name on the outside of business size (#10) envelopes and have those writing letters of reference enclose them in these envelopes, seal the flap, and sign across it.  Submit both sealed reference letters with your application.

Complete the application form provided in this announcement.

Scholarships and research grants are distributed based on standards that do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, gender, national or ethnic origin.

About ADSC and its Industry Advancement Fund (IAF)

ADSC:  The International Association of Foundation Drilling is an organization of contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, and engineers in the foundation drilling and anchored earth retention system industries.  ADSC’s goals for industry improvement recognize the need to invest in education and research and thus the IAF was formed in 1986.  Over the past nineteen years, 220 scholarships have been awarded.  These scholarships are intended to stimulate the involvement of highly qualified engineers in the industry, and the use and research of drilled shafts and anchored earth retention systems.

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GSI Fellowships

 

To:       All GSI Members and Associate Members

From:   Bob Koerner

Date:    March 11, 2008

RE:       GSI Fellowships

At the GSI annual meeting in Cancun last week the following GSI Fellowship program was discussed and further substantiated at the Board of Directors meeting.  As a result, the following request-for-proposals (RFPs) from engineering and science students has been sent to many magazines and newsletters.  You will hopefully be reading it many times in the months ahead.

REQUEST-FOR-PROPOSALS

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) is delighted to announce a worldwide call for student requests-for-proposals (RFPs) focusing on innovative geosynthetics research and development projects.  There will be multiple awards made, each for $10,000 per year, and they are renewable, pending an annual written report, to a total amount of $25,000 per student.  It is important to note that students must have completed their candidacy examinations leading to a doctoral degree in engineering or science to be eligible.  The proposals must be submitted in the following four page format (with no exceptions).

Page 1 – Letter of recommendation from student’s department head or advisor

Page 2 – Title and detailed abstract

Page 3 – Student’s resume

Page 4 – Documentation of completed candidacy examination

The RFPs for the 2008-2009 academic year must be submitted to both of the undersigned by e-mail by July 15, 2008 and awards will be announced on, or before, September 1, 2008.  Review of the proposals is by the nine-person Board of Directors of GSI.  For information on the institution, visit us at the following website: www.geosynthetic-institute.org

Robert M. Koerner, Ph.D, P.E., NAE                 Jamie R. Koerner

Director – Geosynthetic Institute                          Special Projects Coordinator

e-mail robert.koerner@coe.drexel.edu                 e-mail jrkoerner@verizon.net

Some commentary to you GSI members and associate members is in order if you have no prior knowledge of this activity to date:

 

1. Having an endowment fund under the U.S. tax code for nonprofit organizations (like GSI) requires us to spend a portion of the interest for the purposes of the institute’s goals and mission.
2. Student fellowships are an excellent vehicle to get fresh ideas and obviously co-opt the student’s advisor as well.
3. The reason for limiting the fellowships to post-candidacy students is that up until that time the student has coursework to complete and courses always take precedence over research in a student’s life.  Thus, our funds will be maximized toward the research effort.
4. Up until a student passes his/her candidacy, the university takes full overhead (50-75%) and fringe (10-15%) from all fellowships and grants.  Upon becoming a candidate, however, overhead and sometimes fringe benefits are waived.  Thus, our full stipend goes to the selected students.
5. Upon completing his/her doctoral degree a number of students will go into academia as a post-doc or assistant professor.  Now the topic of the dissertation will often be leveraged by applying for much larger state or federal grants.  If the student becomes faculty, perhaps geosynthetics courses would be in the future?  In this regard, we may be creating an “educate-the-‘future’-educator” program.  That would indeed be a wonderful benefit to the industry.
6. The submitted RFP’s will be ranked by the nine-person BoD and summarized by us at GSI to prioritize the submittals.  We will fund as many as possible as suggested by our tax advisor.
7. Feedback from the student recipients will be on an annual basis and, if acceptable, will continue for a total of 2 ½ years, or $25,000.  (Two to three years after candidacy is typical to complete a doctoral degree).  Quite possibly future GRI Conferences will be made up of GSI-Fellow presentations.
8. Lastly, don’t hesitate to send this announcement (without these add-on explanations) to any university/college you care to.  Indeed, feel free to spread-the-word.

 

 

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