SOM Foundation Structural Engineering Fellowship – Request for Student Candidates

In early January, the SOM Foundation will launch the call for submissions for the 2024 Structural Engineering Fellowship. This $20,000 fellowship is awarded annually to a graduating student based in the United States who specializes in structural engineering to conduct independent travel and research that contributes to a topic area, which this year is Adapting Housing Strategies to Respond to New Realities.

This prestigious fellowship has been given annually since 1998 and has been awarded to some of the most creative engineers from diverse university backgrounds, many of whom have gone on to make significant contributions to the profession. A list of past winners is available here.

Applicants must be graduating with a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or PhD in civil and environmental engineering or architectural engineering with a specialization in structural engineering from a professionally accredited degree program in the United States. US citizenship is not required. Applicants must intend to enter the professional practice of structural engineering. 

While any student who meets the criteria may apply, we are contacting you before the open call is announced so that you may nominate your most promising students—those you believe deserve special recognition and the opportunity to broaden their education by traveling with an itinerary they have developed according to their academic interests. 

At this point, we ask for you to please reply to this message with names and email addresses for your student nominations, and we will follow up directly with them, encouraging them to apply and letting them know that they have been nominated by you to do so. A maximum of two nominees per department are allowed. 

More details about the fellowship and application requirements can be found on the SOM Foundation website here: https://somfoundation.com/awards/structural-engineering-fellowship/. Applications will be accepted once the announcement is made in January and the deadline to apply is Friday, March 15, 2024. Please provide the names and emails of one or two student nominees by February 1, 2024.

In addition, a poster about this opportunity is attached; kindly share with students and/or forward it along to administrative colleagues as needed.

This year’s jury will be led by Alessandro Beghini, Senior Associate Principal at SOM, San Francisco. A full list of jurors will be announced in January. Alessandro is cc’ed on this email, as well as SOM Foundation Executive Director, Iker Gil; we are happy to answer questions you may have.

Limited Submission Opportunity: Apple Scholars in AI/ML

Please see below for an upcoming limited submission for a graduate student fellowship!

Apple Scholars in AI/ML – September 15, 2023: internal deadline September 4

See attachment; we have been asked not to share these guidelines outside of our university. Password is 2024AppleScholars.

Eligibility:

  • Nominee must be enrolled full time at the nominating university at the start of Fall 2024, and expect to be enrolled through the end of the 2024/2025 academic year
  • Nominee should be entering their last 2-3 years of study as of Fall 2024
  • Nominee must not hold another industry-sponsored full fellowship while they are an Apple Scholar in AI/ML (Fall 2024 to Summer 2026)

Required Materials (see website for more details):

  1. Student CV and publication list
  2. Research Abstract (200 word maximum)
  3. Research statement covering past work and proposed direction for next 2 years (5 page maximum, including citations, in a legible font size) clearly stating the hypothesis and expected contributions to the chosen research area.
  4. 2 letters of recommendation, one from current advisor (1 page maximum per letter)
  5. Link to most recent published work (optional)
  6. Please also prepare to submit the estimated tuition and fees(including enrollment, health insurance, and books) for the nominee’s 2022-2023 academic year (or PhD student salary / bursary stipend, if regionally appropriate).

Internal submission:

  • Send to echerry30@gatech.edu by Monday, September 4.
  • Please submit near-complete versions of required materials #1-5, except for #4 (letters of recommendation): you may submit only the names of expected external references (external letters needed for the solicitation are not required for the internal submission).
  • Please also include your primary choice of research area, and optionally a secondary choice, from the following 12 areas (see attachment for more information): Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, Human Centered AI, AI for Ethics and Fairness, AI for Accessibility, AI for Health and Wellness, ML Theory, ML Algorithms and Architectures, Embodied ML, Speech and Natural Language, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval and Knowledge, Data-Centric AI.
  • Please indicate whether the nominated student identifies as a member of a traditionally underrepresented group in the technology industry.

Number of nominations per School/Department:

  • Schools/Departments should coordinate to submit internally no more than the number of nominations that GT may submit collectively.
  • Each university is limited to 3 nominations; it is encouraged that at least one nomination be used for a student who identifies as a member of a traditionally underrepresented group in the technology industry.
  • Each university is also limited to one nomination per area from the 12 areas listed, so the submissions to CoC from a given School/Department should represent distinct areas. For submissions that overlap areas, we can consider primary and secondary areas and adjust as needed.

ExxonMobil Fellowship Opportunity

The Hispanic Heritage Foundation has partnered with ExxonMobil for the past eleven years for this fellowship opportunity. Would you be able to send it out to your students?
 
2023 ExxonMobil LOFT Fellowship Program

ExxonMobil LOFT Fellowship
ExxonMobil Corporation, the largest publicly traded international energy company, has partnered with the Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) to create fellowship opportunities in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) for Hispanic college students. Through HHF’s Latinos On Fast Track (LOFT) program, ExxonMobil seeks to nurture motivated college students nationwide with a passion for Engineering and Science.

Selected students will be exposed to a top-quality company by participating in this signature mentoring program. Each student will be paired up with an ExxonMobil professional to learn how their knowledge and skills are applied in a corporate setting. 

Fellowship Components
The Fellowship consists of five 1-hour meetings with a mentor (virtual or in person), an exclusive curriculum to introduce Fellows to ExxonMobil and career opportunities, and a $1,000 educational grant. In addition, the possibility exists to interview for ExxonMobil positions (internships/full-time) upon successfully completing the Fellowship.

Fellowship Requirements
This opportunity is highly competitive and open to rising sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students attending a 4-year college or university.
Fellowship applicants with the following majors will be given priority: 
·       Civil Engineering
·       Chemical Engineering 
·       Computer Engineering
·       Electrical Engineering
·       Geoscience 
·       Material Science and Engineering 
·       Mechanical Engineering

Applicants with these majors will also be considered: Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Petroleum Engineering, and Physics.

Other Requirements:
·       Must plan to pursue a career in the fields/majors listed above
·       Have a GPA of 3.5 or higher
·       Be a U.S. citizen, a legal U.S. permanent resident or have the permanent right to work in the      U.S. Applicants selected are required to submit documentation for U.S. citizenship,  permanent resident or right to work.

The application can be found here.


If you have questions, please contactJulian@hispanicheritage.org. Please use “ExxonMobil LOFT Fellowship” in the subject line.
 
The 2023 ExxonMobil LOFT Fellowship Application will close on April 30, 2023, at @11:59 p.m. EDT.

This opportunity available through the LOFT program is for Hispanic students. Others interested should contact the company’s website directly. 

Please, feel free to circulate to anyone you think may be interested.

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships at CMCC, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

[Job Opening Code: 12357]Milano (Italy) – Deadline: 31/05/2022

 

Are you a researcher in possession of a doctoral degree and with no more than eight years of full-time equivalent research experience?

Discover the opportunities of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships for researchers at CMCC, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici.

CMCC Foundation is the non-profit Italian research centre on climate science and policy. Its activities focus on the development and applications of models of climate dynamics, impacts of climate change and adaptation and mitigation policies.

Under the framework of Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, CMCC is taking into consideration to support individual experienced researchers in order to develop research proposals with reference to the 2022 Call Marie Sklodowska-Curie – Postdoctoral Fellowships – ( MSCA-PF-2022).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON CMCC JOB OPPORTUNITIES, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://www.cmcc.it/work-with-us

Pleas reach out to Baabak Ashuri for more information.