aci Foundation Awards Student Fellowships and Scholarships for 2021-2022

摘要

The ACI Foundation has announced its 2021-2022 Fellowship and Scholarship recipients. The ACI Foundation is a nonprofit subsidiary of the Institute that promotes progress, innovation, and collaboration in the concrete industry through strategic investments in research, scholarship, and ideas. With the help of generous donors, the ACI Foundation strongly supports students joining the field of concrete and becoming the industry's key designers, engineers, construction managers, and contractors. Since the inception of the Foundation's Fellowship program in 2008, the ACI Foundation has provided financial support, mentorship, and internship opportunities to nearly 220 students. The ACI Foundation Student Fellowships are offered to high-potential undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, construction management, and other appropriate curricula who are endorsed by an ACI member. The purpose of the Student Fellowship Program is to identify, attract, and develop outstanding professionals for productive careers in the concrete field. During the academic year, each student will receive a $10,000 educational stipend ($15,000 for the Falconer Fellowship), paid travel expenses and attendance fees to attend two ACI Concrete Conventions, and assistance in finding an industry mentor. The recipients include: Erin Stewartson is pursuing her PhD in civil engineering at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Under the guidance of Lisa Burris and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, her research is focused on determining the impact of differences inherent in "off-spec" and marginal fly ash sources on adsorption of air-entraining admixtures. "Understanding fly ash adsorption is critical to developing a model to predict the overall performance of cement pastes, mortars, and, ultimately, concrete.