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 2023 ASME IGTI Turbo Expo Early Career Engineer Travel Award Winners!

Name	Affiliation
Lakshya Bhatnagar	Purdue University
Louis Christensen	Slippery Rock University
Luca Fantaccione	Baker Hughes
Vasilis Gkoutzamanis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jim Hickey	Sensor Coating Systems Ltd
Rory Hine	BAE Systems plc
Richard Hollenbach III	Exponent Scientific and Engineering Consulting
Melissa Kozul	University of Melbourne
Eric Kurstak	GE Aerospace
Oguzhan Murat	von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Preethi Rajendram Soundararajan	University of Cambridge
Bryan Rodriguez	LA Turbine
Neha Singh	Rolls-Royce
Ananth Sivaramakrishnan Malathi	Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Jose Torres	Boeing
Dung Tran	Energy Recovery Inc.
Ladislav Vesely	University of Central Florida
Alexander Wildgoose	General Electric Aerospace
Peter Wilkins	Pratt & Whitney