Graduate Student Award
| ASME Unit: | Solar Energy Division (SED) | 
| Date Established: | 2000 | 
| Achievement: | Recognizes an outstanding graduate student working in an area of solar energy supported by the Solar Energy Division of ASME. Areas of interest include: 
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| Limitations: | Applicants must be student members of ASME enrolled as full-time graduate students. | 
| Nomination Deadline: | 4/26/2024 | 
| Form of Award: | The award includes $500, recognition at the Awards Banquet at the annual Energy Sustainability Conference, the opportunity to give a featured talk in your chosen track at Energy Sustainability, and recognition in the conference program. | 
| Frequency of Award: | Annual | 
| Administrative: | Solar Energy Division | 
| Level of Award: | Division | 
| Selected By: | A committee consisting of the following two SED Executive Committee members: Past Chair and Current Chair | 
| Selecting Process: | For consideration in 2024, applicants should email an application package by April 26th, 2024. The application package should consist of: short CV, publication list, motivation letter including short research statement, and a minimum of 1 reference letter. The application material should be submitted electronically to Julia Nicodemus (email: nicodemj@lafayette.edu). | 
| Funding: | Custodial Account | 
| Date Created: | 11/10/2008 | 
| Date Modified: | 3/4/2024 | 
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Graduate Student Award Recipients
| 2000 | Gary Rosengaten; University of New South Wales Runner Up - Joshua Plaisted; University of Wisconsin | 
| 2001 | James McLeskey, Jr.; University of Virginia Runner Up - Wei Liu; University of Minnesota | 
| 2002 | Gunnar Tamm; University of Florida - Gainesville | 
| 2003 | Sanjay Vijayaraghavan; University of Florida - Gainesville Runner Up - Thomas Osinga; ETH - Zurich | 
| 2004 | Nitin Goel; University of Florida - Gainesville | 
| 2005 | Daniel Thomas; University of Minnesota | 
| 2007 | Frank Burkholder; University of Colorado-Boulder | 
| 2010 | Thomas Sebastian; North Carolina State University | 
| 2011 | Daniel S. Codd; Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
| 2013 | John James; Dreby | 
| 2014 | Thomas Cooper; ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | 
| 2015 | David Curran; San Diego State University | 
| 2016 | Simon Ackermann; ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | 
| 2017 | Alberto Sánchez González; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | 
| 2018 | Meng Lin; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 
| 2020 | Sha Li; Australian National University |