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Campus Connection Grants
AISC offers an exciting opportunity to bring high-quality speaking engagements to your campus! The AISC Education Foundation provides funding in the form of reimbursement grants to encourage university faculty and AISC Student Clubs to hold on-campus, in-person speaking engagements with inspiring leaders of the structural steel industry.
Professor Ann Sychterz, PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), presents
to a graduate class at University of Madison-Wisonsin.
Up to $1,200 per grant available!
A Campus Connection grant can offer the following opportunities to you and your students:
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Explore careers in design, research, and/or construction management
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Learn about the latest innovations in structural steel
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Expand the network of speakers and visitors/industry guests to your school
How to apply:
(1) Choose a speaking engagement topic based on a session at the most recent NASCC: The Steel Conference. Filter by 'Conference Recordings and Papers', and the year.
2024 NASCC: The Steel Conference session recordings
(2) Identify a session topic and speaker you would like to visit your campus. You can view our recommended 2024 speakers here.
(3) Contact the speaker to ensure they can travel to your campus during the requested term and to carefully budget all aspects of the speaker’s visit.
(4) Complete the grant application to indicate the event logistics and detailed budget. A maximum of $1,200 will be awarded for successful grant proposals. Supplemental funds are not necessary but can be helpful regarding speaker honorariums/travel stipends. Please articulate those plans if applicable in your application.
Terms of grant:
Funding may be used for speaker travel expenses, speaker honorarium, food and non-alcoholic beverages for attendees, and/or A/V costs for recording the presentation. The grant recipient is responsible for coordinating all logistics with their selected speaker, including reimbursement timeline and honorariums. The speaker should be reimbursed by the hosting university or department within 30 days of the event.
The grant awardee must submit a completed reimbursement form within 30 days of the event. Receipts are not required. Funds will be reimbursed to the university or department following the event by AISC 3-4 weeks following submission of the reimbursement form.