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Join us at a future industry event!
Congratulations to the seven students who received Student Travel Grants for the upcoming fall and winter terms! View the grant opportunities section below for additional details.
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.
2025-2026 Student Travel Grant Opportunities
AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration: Fall Meeting (Little Rock, October 21-23)
Congratulations to Baran Koyuk of the University of Texas at Austin and Ramoji Rao Allu of Georgia Tech, who both received a Student Travel Grant to attend the AASHTO/NSBA Collaboration Meeting this fall!
A limited number of travel grants will be available for students to attend the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration meeting. This year's fall meeting will be hosted in Little Rock.
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!
Keep an eye out for future opportunities to attend the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration meetings!
AISC Task Committee and Committee on Specifications Meetings (Chicago, November 18-21)
Congratulations to the 2025 Student Travel Grant recipients attending the AISC Task Committee and Committee on Specifications Meetings!
- Prajjwal Devkota, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Kathleen Sullivan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Margaret Sullivan-Miller, University of Cincinnati
- Grace Zhang, University of Washington
About the Grant
Each year, 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.
Keep an eye out for future opportunities to attend AISC Committee meetings!
AISC Bridge Task Force Meeting (New Orleans, January 28-30)
Congratulations to Alissa Persad of Rutgers University, who received a Student Travel Grant to attend the 2026 winter Bridge Task Force Meeting!
A limited number of travel grants will be available for students to attend the 2026 winter Bridge Task Force Meeting in New Orleans. Join structural steel bridge experts as they work together to identify current and future steel bridge design challenges, cultivate new technologies, and advance best practices.
Meeting attendees include steel producers, bridge fabricators and engineers, design firms, university faculty, consultants, the Federal Highway Administration, and the AASHTO Technical Committee for Structural Steel Design (T-14).
Keep an eye out for future opportunities to attend Bridge Task Force Meetings!
NASCC: The Steel Conference (Atlanta, April 22-24)
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 in 2026!
AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration: Spring Meeting (date and location TBD)
A limited number of travel grants will be available for students to attend the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration meetings in the spring. 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!
Keep an eye out for future opportunities to attend the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration meetings!
Past Participants
AISC 2025 Spring Travel Grant Recipients
NASCC: The Steel Conference Grant recipients: (left to right) Ian Hensley, University of St. Thomas; Megan Potter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Zachary Miller, Cornell University; Elizabeth Capretta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Alec Spano, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(Not pictured) NASCC: The Steel Conference Grant recipient Lotam Leinzon, New York University; and AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration Meeting Grant recipient Jace Creech, Case Western Reserve University
AISC Fall 2024 Student Travel Grant Recipients
AISC Task Committee and Committee on Specifications Meetings Grant recipients:
(left to right) Rachel Osborn, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Moustafa Haraz, University of California, Davis; and Detlef Laughery, Oregon State University
(Not pictured) AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration Meeting Grant recipients: Bhushan Raj Selvaraj, University of Texas at Austin; and Camilla Duarte, University of Notre Dame
AISC Spring 2024 Student Travel Grant Recipients
(top row, left to right) Robert Bailey Bond, Northeastern University; Aditya Jhunjhunwala, University of California, Davis
(bottom row, left to right) Mercy Kangogo, Tennessee State University; Shay Rutenberg, University of Texas at Austin
Bond, Jhunjhunwala, and Kangogo attended NASCC: The Steel Conference in San Antonio. Rutenberg attended the AASHTO/NSBA Steel Bridge Collaboration Meetings.
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