Ph.D. Research Scholarships

The mission of the American Society for Composites (ASC) is to provide a communication forum for the engineering and scientific community in composite materials, and to provide the growth of knowledge from interdisciplinary engineering and scientific research in composite materials. In keeping with this mission, ASC is pleased to announce the annual graduate student research scholarship grant program for students who are formally enrolled in a doctoral program in engineering or science, and whose dissertation research is focused on some aspect of composite materials. Up to four awards will be given, each consisting of two parts. The first part is a grant to the student to support the student’s research (see current form for amount). The second part is a reimbursement of travel expenses (see current form for upper limit) to help the student attend the annual ASC Technical Conference and accept the award at the conference banquet.

Faculty advisors, who are also ASC members, are invited to submit their nomination(s) along with supporting information electronically by the specified due date.

2025
Jason Mack, University of Akron
Joseph Kirchhoff, The University of Texas at Austin
Partha Pratim Das, The University of Texas at Arlington
Mohammad Saquib, Old Dominion University
Uday Balaga, University of Delaware

2024
Hridyesh Tewani, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tania Lavaggi, University of Delaware
Tyler Price, University of Illinois at UC

2023
Kazi Zahir Uddin, Rowan University
Jack Turicek, North Carolina State University

2022
Shuvam Saha, Mississippi State University
Haotian Feng, University of Wisconsin Madisson
Iman Naseri, Colorado State University

2021
Paulina Diaz-Montiel, San Diego State University
Isaiah Kaiser, University of Akron
Melissa Kate Stanfield, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

2020
Nil Parikh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Drake, Mississippi State University
Shiayo Lin, University of Michigan
Rudy Haluza, Pennsylvania State University

2019
Sagar Doshi, University of Delaware
Tyler Goode, North Carolina State University

2018
Raja Ganesh, University of Delaware
Jason Parker, Johns Hopkins University
Xin Liu, Purdue

2017
Jude Anike, Catholic University
Arnab Chanda, University of Alabama
James Garofalo, RPI

2016
Stephen Pety, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert Hart, University of Iowa
Behrad Koohbor, University of South Carolina

2015
Trenton Ricks, Mississippi State University
Anthony Coppola, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014
Subramani Socklingam, University of Delaware
Kevin R. Hart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2013
Mahdi Salavatian, Washington State University
Federico Gasco, University of Washington

2012
Masoud Safdari, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jason F. Patrick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pavana Prabhakar, University of Michigan

2011
Min C. Song, University of Florida

2010
Ye Zhu, Penn State University
Amy Peterson, Drexel University
Grant Vogl, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

2009
Gaurav Nilakantan, University of Delaware
Anurag Sharma, University of Florida
Scott E. Stapleton, University of Michigan

2008
Nguyen Quang Nguyen, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn
Amanda Lim, University of Delaware

2007
Xinyuan Tan, Georgia Tech
Aflal M. Rahmathullah, Drexel University

2006
Richard J. Cross, Georgia Tech
Samer A. Tawfik, Georgia Tech

2005
Ying Shan, Penn State University
A. Andres Leal Ayala, University of Delaware

2004
Paolo J. Feraboli, University of California Santa Barbara
Anis Gawandi, University of Dayton

2003
Sontipee Aimmanee, Virgina Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jennifer Gorczyca, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

2002
Eric N. Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nikhil Gupta, Louisiana State University

2001
Seth Kessler, MIT

2000
Dennis Burianek, MIT