2019 IMECE Student Travel Award Competition

The Applied Mechanics Executive Committee (AMD-EC) is pleased to announce the 2019 IMECE student travel award competition, which is sponsored by the Haythornthwaite Foundation*.

Students can self-nominate and are required to send a brief one-page CV, a recommendation letter from the student’s Faculty Advisor or Department Chair, the abstract of a paper accepted for presentation at IMECE in Track 11, and a draft presentation. Please note that, at the time of the award presentation, the applicant must be enrolled full-time in a degree program at a US institution. A Faculty Advisor may not endorse more than one student. The nominations will be reviewed by the AMD-EC. Ten students will be selected for travel grants of $1000 each.

Dates: 

July 30, 2019: Submit the nomination, by e-mail, to Professors Yonggang Huang <y-huang@northwestern.edu> and Pradeep Guduru <pradeep_guduru@brown.edu>. The nomination should include: (a) CV of the applicant (one page); (b) Title and abstract of a paper accepted for presentation in Track 11 at IMECE 2019; (c) Recommendation letter from the Faculty Advisor or Department Chair.

August 12, 2019: Travel awards will be announced to the winners.

November 2019:  Travel award winners will be acknowledged at the AMD Awards Banquet at IMECE 2019.

* The Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation supports scientific research in the field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Robert Haythornthwaite was a founder and first President of the American Academy of Mechanics.