Congrats to the Student recipients of the SEI Futures Fund Scholarship!

SEI has selected the 2026 Student recipients of the Futures Fund Scholarships supporting participation at Structures Congress, held April 29–May 1 in Boston. Awardees represent emerging contributors to the profession across academia, industry, and research.

Students

Brooke Abselet, S.M.ASCE University of California, San Diego

Arpan Adhikari, S.M.ASCE Idaho State University

Ishfaq Aziz, S.M.ASCE University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Kaylee Blair, S.M.ASCE Elizabethtown College

Prajita Budhathoki, S.M.ASCE Idaho State University 

Bhupesh Chand, S.M.ASCE University of New Haven

David Alejandro Chavez Posadas, S.M.ASCE Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Uday Kumar Chinnam, S.M.ASCE University of New Haven

Luke Conboy, EIT, S.M.ASCE Washington State University

Aagya Dahal, S.M.ASCE University of Connecticut

Izzy de Fontaine, S.M.ASCE University of California, San Diego

Levi Dugan, S.M.ASCE University of Alabama

Madilyn Eckstine, S.M.ASCE South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Mohamed Eissa, S.M.ASCE Florida International University

Andres Famiglietti, S.M.ASCE Florida International University

Temidayo Faro, S.M.ASCE University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria

Damaris Ferrer, S.M.ASCE Stony Brook University

Claudia Garcia Aguirre, S.M.ASCE University of California, Berkeley

Roberto Gonzalez Medellin, M.ASCE University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Peter Hastings, S.M.ASCE Colorado School of Mines

Brianna Hiser, S.M.ASCE University of Wyoming

Ibrahim Ibrahim, S.M.ASCE Cleveland State University

Ava Jones, S.M.ASCE Johns Hopkins University

Eunice Jung, S.M.ASCE Stanford University

Upasana Khadka, S.M.ASCE University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Louis Kigula, S.M.ASCE Drexel University 

Tania Lamichhane, S.M.ASCE University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Gabriel Lembert, S.M.ASCE Stony Brook University

Abigail McGinnis, S.M.ASCE University of Oklahoma

Alexandra Mendez, S.M.ASCE University of California, Berkeley 

Seyyed Amirhossein Moayyedi, S.M.ASCE Portland State University

Cynthia Navarro, M.ASCE The University of Arizona

Gavin Nelson, S.M.ASCE Colorado School of Mines

Faruk Olaosebikan, S.M.ASCE Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria

Gerald Owusu, S.M.ASCE Morgan State University

Blas Ramirez, S.M.ASCE University of California, San Diego

Jordi Ramos Nunez, M.ASCE Colorado School of Mines

Juan Rea, S.M.ASCE Rutgers University

Jorge Romero-Loyola, S.M.ASCE Oregon State University 

Mohammadzaid Shaikh, S.M.ASCE University of New Haven

Pragun Shrestha, S.M.ASCE University of Kansas

Thomas Sierra, S.M.ASCE Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia

Md Mansib Tazowar, S.M.ASCE University of Texas at Arlington

Van Thang, S.M.ASCE University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Corey Theiss, S.M.ASCE California State University, Sacramento

Jedric Uganiza, S.M.ASCE California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Yesenia Vicencio, S.M.ASCE University of Wyoming

Cary Wingard, S.M.ASCE Florida International University

Juan Sebastian Zambrano Jaramillo, S.M.ASCE Oregon State University

Yuxiang Zhao, S.M.ASCE University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign