The ASME Turbo Expo Early Career Engineer Travel Award

ASME Unit: International Gas Turbine Institute

Date Established: 2003

Achievement: The ASME IGTI Executive Committee instituted an award for young engineers in order to facilitate the participation of worthy young professionals to Turbo Expo.

Nomination Deadline: February 1^st

Form of Award: The Turbo Expo Early Career Engineer Travel Award is intended for early career engineers working in industry, in government or in academia to obtain travel funding to attend ASME Turbo Expo to present a paper which they have authored or co-authored.

The purpose is to provide a way for more to participate in the annual Turbo Expo.

• One Complimentary ASME Turbo Expo Technical Conference Registration
• Complimentary hotel accommodations (Sunday to Friday)
• Up to $1,000 toward approved travel expenses

The nominee must have obtained an academic degree (Bachelor, Master, PhD, or equivalent degrees) in an engineering discipline related to turbomachinery within five years from the year of the Turbo Expo that the applicant wishes to attend. The paper or poster being presented can be research results from work completed either while pursuing an academic degree, or after leaving school and entering the job field. Post-doctoral researchers in academic institutions are eligible so long as they have been in post no longer than five years full time equivalent.

Frequency of Award: Annual

Administrative: ASME International Gas Turbine Institute

Level of Award: Division

Selected By: An award sub-committee of the IGTI Executive Committee

Funding: IGTI’s Operating Fund

Date Modified: 11/1/21

Contact Name: ASME Staff

Contact Email: igtiawards@asme.org

Contact Phone: 1-281-493-3491
 

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Congratulations to our 2025 ASME IGTI Turbo Expo Early Career Engineer Travel Award Winners!

Name	Affiliation
Achinie Nataliya Warusevitane	Coventry University
Anand Darji	Caterpillar India
Antonio Castillo Sauca	Purdue University
CP Premchand	University of Tennessee Space Institute
Deepanshu Singh	University of Cambridge
Dimitra Tsakmakidou	Rolls-Royce plc
Filippo Merli	von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Hien Minh Phan	Siemens Energy
Howon Yi	LG Electronics
Matthew Meier	The Pennsylvania State University
Pawel Przytarski	University of Genoa
Pradeep Parajuli	Leidos Inc./ National Energy Technology Laboratory
Ramees Khaleel Rahman	University of Central Florida
Ravi Nath Tiwari	University of Genova
Richard Lee Hollenbach III	Exponent Scientific and Engineering Consulting
Saarthak Gupta	University of Michigan
Saif Al Hamad	The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Shreyas Hegde	Pratt & Whitney
Thomas Corbett	Pratt & Whitney
Waleligne Molla Salilew	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS