The SEI Futures Fund has once again supported the engagement of students and young professionals at the premier event for structural engineers. This year we have 20 students and 25 younger members that have been awarded a scholarship to attend and engage in Structures Congress 2023. For the first time we offered the opportunity for students and recent graduates as part of the scholarship the opportunity to present at the conference and we have 12 presenters that received the scholarship.  

SEI would like to extend our congratulations to all of these students and young professionals who received scholarships this year! We can't wait to meet them all in-person in New Orleans. 

Student/Recent Graduate Presenters

These new scholarship recipients will present in the Meet the Future of Structural Engineering session:

  • Rawan Al Naabi, Muscat, Oman
  • Edvard Bruun, Princeton, NJ
  • Giovanna Fusco, New Milford, CT
  • Fiz Hassan, Urbana, IL
  • William Hughes, Wallingford, CT
  • Sarvadaman Pachade, Monmouth Junction, NJ
  • Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji, Charlottesville, VA
  • Nidhi Shah, Hoboken, NJ
  • Margaret Sullivan-Miller, Cincinnati, OH
  • Mohammad Syed, College Station, TX
  • Shree Tripathi, Edgewater, CO
  • Michael Vaccaro, Branford, CT

Students

  • Qozeem Abiona, University of Delaware
  • Gabriel Ackall, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Seth Anderson, Clarkson University
  • Sheila Ariana, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Joseph Cortas, University of Cincinnati
  • Saransh Dikshit, Iowa State University
  • Akash Doshi, Stanford University
  • Naia Echevarria, Purdue University
  • Mohamed Elshazli, University of Idaho
  • Liam Johnson, Michigan Technological University
  • Steven Kontra, Oregon State University
  • Cole Landes, United States Air Force Academy
  • Samantha Leonard, Penn State University
  • Hugh Merryday, Auburn University
  • Sandra Milev, University of Delaware
  • Musawer Ahmad Saqif, University of Michigan
  • Judy Too, University of Manchester
  • Alexis Tri, United States Air Force Academy
  • Omar Yadak, The University of Oklahoma

Young Professionals

  • Stefanie Rae Arizabal, Oakland CA
  • Ana Paula Bernardo, Sarasota, FL
  • Sujit Bhandari, Corvalis, OR
  • Autumn Buesking, Davenport, IA
  • Judian Duran, Tampa, FL
  • Emily Durcan, Neconset, NY
  • Soumabrata Dutta, New York, NY
  • David Fratamico, Springfield, PA
  • Meriton Gollopeni, Baltimore, MD
  • Robert Gunter, Washington, DC
  • Evan Jordan, Seattle, WA
  • Amit S. Joshi, Sacramento, CA
  • Maha Kenawy, Menlo Park, CA
  • Tony Kulesa, Overland Park, KS
  • Daniele Malomo, Montreal, Canada
  • Ignace Mugabo, Little Rock, AR
  • Polly Murray, Anchorage, AK
  • Christian Okamoto, Portland, OR
  • Shima Rajaei Dehkordi, Melrose, MA
  • Ishwarya Srikanth, Action, Canada
  • Ann Sychterz, Champaign, IL
  • Hasan Tariq, Norfolk, VA
  • Megan Vandervort, Emeryville, CA
  • Haifeng Wang, Pullman, WA
  • Song Wang, W. Hartford, CT