Student Travel Grants

Join us at a future industry event!

AISC, with funding from the AISC Education Foundation, offers travel grants to students to attend highly informative industry meetings and exciting events, allowing them to connect with mentors and have an inside look at opportunities within the structural steel industry.

Grant recipients will receive travel reimbursement including direct travel costs (airfare, ground transportation, personal car mileage, etc.) and lodging expenses in specified AISC hotel room blocks. Reimbursement guidelines vary by event and will be provided to grant recipients at the time the grants are awarded.

Students are expected to participate fully and attend all group meals and meetings related to the event as applicable. A written summary of the students' experience following the event is also required as a final deliverable.

2024 Student Travel Grant Opportunities

AISC is pleased to announce the three recipients of Student Travel Grants who will participate in NASCC: The Steel Conference in 2024! They are:

Robert Bailey Bond, Northeastern University
Aditya Jhunjhunwala, University of California, Davis
Mercy Kangogo, Tennessee State University

About the Grant

Each year, a select number of students will be chosen for an immersive experience at NASCC: The Steel Conference, the premier event for everyone involved in the design and construction of steel buildings and bridges.

Just for attending the conference, students will have access to nearly 200 technical sessions, a giant exhibition hall showcasing more than 280 products and services that can help you design and build better with steel, and networking with more than 5,000 colleagues, including leading designers, top fabricators, and prestigious researchers at the cutting edge of today’s innovation.

Additionally, student travel grant recipients will be connected with AISC Staff and industry mentors throughout the week to enhance their experience and take their networking opportunities to the next level.

Keep an eye out for future opportunities to attend NASCC: The Steel Conference!

A limited number of travel grants will be available for students to attend the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration meetings. Join the structural steel bridge experts as they work together to improve and achieve the quality and value of steel bridges through standardization of design, fabrication, and erection. Meeting attendees include bridge engineers, fabricators, owners, researchers, erectors, contractors, and detailers.

Task groups are focused on the following topics: Detailing, fabrication and repair, quality control/quality assurance, coatings, erection, design, constructability and fabrication, analysis, field repairs and retrofits, castings, data modeling, and more!

Applications for attending the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration meetings are now closed.

A limited number of travel grants will be offered for students to attend the November Task Committee and Committee on Specifications meetings in Chicago. Each student will be connected with AISC Staff mentors, have the opportunity to meet some of the leading engineers and researchers in the industry, and see firsthand how AISC's specifications and standards are made.

Application available in September 2024.

Past Participants

AISC Task Committee and Committee on Specifications Meetings in Chicago, 2023

(top row, left to right) Alana Alves de Moraes, University of Texas at Austin; Joseph Cortas, University of Cincinnati; and Aditya Jhunjhunwala, University of California, Davis
(bottom row, left to right) Shitao Shi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Kara Stall, University of Cincinnati

NASCC: The Steel Conference in Denver, 2022

(left to right) Glenn Tabolt, STS Steel; Katelyn Davis, University of Kansas; Samuel Calhoun, Georgia Tech; and Hugh McCaffrey, Southern New Jersey Steel

AISC Task Committee and Committee on Specifications Meetings in Chicago, 2022

(left to right) Matthew Phillips, Georgia Tech; Ahmad Hassan, University of California, Davis; and Timothy Kohany, Manhattan College

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