The ACI Foundation is pleased to announce its 2024-2025 fellowship and scholarship recipients. The ACI Foundation is a non-profit subsidiary of ACI that promotes progress, innovation, and collaboration in the concrete industry through strategic investments in ideas, research, and people to create the future of the concrete industry.

All Fellowship recipients receive a $10,000 (USD) educational stipend; paid travel expenses and attendance fees to two ACI conventions; and assistance in finding an industry mentor. All Scholarship recipients receive a $5,000 (USD) educational stipend.

Since the inception of the Foundation’s Fellowship program in 2008, the ACI Foundation has provided financial support, mentorship, and internship opportunities to over 330 students.

This year the ACI Foundation was able to award 29 fellowships and 15 scholarships to students from 35 different institutions. 

ACI Foundation Concrete Materials Fellowship

Nima Khodadadi, University of Miami 

ACI Foundation Concrete Practitioner Fellowship

Grant Harrington, Oklahoma State University

ACI Foundation Future Concrete Industry Leader Fellowship

Artem Egorov, University of Florida

ACI Foundation Fellowship 

Mohammad Albashiti, Clemson University

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Monjee Almustafa, McMaster University

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Will Pahl, University of Saskatchewan

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Sofiane Amroun, University of Miami

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Balaram Luitel, The University of Texas at Arlington

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Jacob Yager, Queen’s University

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Abdulrahman Salah, University of Houston

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Brittany Multer, The Ohio State University

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Yoonjung Han, Texas A&M University

ACI Foundation Fellowship

Benjamin (Bo) Rider, Georgia Institute of Technology

ACI Middle East Fellowship

Mahmoud Higazey, King Saud University

ACI Presidents’ Fellowship

Ann Albright, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

AOE Fellowship 

Matthew Pasemann, Texas State University

Baker Student Fellowship

Austin Mizen, Bowling Green University 

Baker Student Fellowship

Abigail Erich, The Pennsylvania State University

Barbara S. and W. Calvin McCall Carolinas Fellowship

Issac Oyawoye, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Burg-Coleman Iowa State ’77 Fellowship

Md. Lutfor Rahman, Iowa State University

Charles Pankow Foundation Student Fellowship

Camille Davis, University of Louisville

Don Marks Memorial Fellowship

Nicholas Barrio, Texas A&M University

Elmer Baker Fellowship

Merrill (Kaid) Nygren, Texas State University

JoAnne K. & Cecil L. Jones Carolinas Fellowship

Aakriti Khadka, North Carolina State University

Nicolas F. Maloof Jr. GA Chapter Fellowship

Segun Osibodu, Auburn University

Robert F. Mast Memorial Fellowship

Tyler Wood, South Dakota State University

Ronald G. Burg Leadership Fellowship

Thomas Carnes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

S.P. Shah Fellowship

Hossein Kabir, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Tribute to the Founders Fellowship

Catherine Lucero, Oregon State University

ACI Foundation Scholarship

Amjad Diab, The University of Texas at Austin

ACI Foundation Scholarship

Bayezid Baten, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

ACI Foundation Scholarship

Joel Freitas, University of Massachusetts Amherst

ACI Foundation Scholarship

Bahareh Tayebani, The Pennsylvania State University

ACI 201 Undergraduate Durability Scholarship

Dennis Brickl, University of Wisconsin Platteville

Bernard Erlin Memorial Scholarship

Tu-Nam Nguyen, Georgia Institute of Technology

Bertold E. Weinberg Scholarship

Luca Galli, University of Miami

Katharine & Bryant Mather Scholarship

James Stewart, University of Arkansas, Bell Engineering Center

Nick Bada – ACI Ontario Chapter Graduate Scholarship

Mehran Aziminezhad, Lakehead University

Master Builders Solutions Concrete Materials

Jackson Kaszas, Rutgers University

Richard D. Stehly Memorial Scholarship

Kenan Johnson, Saint Louis University

Roger S. Johnston Memorial Scholarship

Maxwell Edman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Schwing America Scholarship

Rebecca Rasmussen, Brigham Young University

Stewart C. Watson Memorial Scholarship

Md Shahjalal, University of Calgary

W. Gene Corley Scholarship

Sherryen Mutoka, University of Notre Dame

The online application process for the ACI Foundation’s 2025-2026 Fellowships and Scholarships will open on July 1, 2024, and close on November 1, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EST

ACI Foundation Fellowship and Scholarship awards are made possible through generous contributions by donors from the concrete community. Together, the Foundation and its supporters are strengthening the concrete industry by supporting students entering a professional career in the field of concrete. The ACI Foundation is leading the way to ensure a sustainable, successful future of the concrete industry by intentional and focused investments in ideas, research, and people. Additional information about each fellowship and scholarship is available at acifoundation.org/scholarships.

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