Student Travel Awards

Student and Young Professional Travel Awards

The INCE Foundation offers one award to students and young professionals that help offset costs of travel to INCE-sponsored conferences:

The Hallberg Foundation Award
Michiko So Finegold Award (not offered)
E-A-R Thermal Acoustic Systems Award (not offered)

The Hallberg Foundation Award

The Elizabeth L. and Russell F. Hallberg Foundation has made a generous donation to facilitate the travel of undergraduate and graduate students to INCE-sponsored conferences in order to present their work.

2024 Awardees

Adebeyo Olude	Morgan State University
Francisco Aguilera Diaz	University of Texas at Arlington
Janith Godakawela	Michigan Technological University
Jonty Mago	Purdue University
Pelumi Abiodun	Morgan State University
Peter Oyekola	Tennessee Technological University
Shaocheng Wu	Purdue University
Srinivasa-Rao Ippili	University of Kentucky
Xinqi Wei	University of Texas at Arlington
Yijie Zhang	Purdue University
Cornelius Darko	Morgan State University

2023 Awardees

Pelumi Abiodun	Morgan State University
Xin Yan	University of Kentucky
Juhyung Kim	Purdue University
Christopher Grabow	Penn State University
Srinivasa-Rao Ippili	University of Kentucky
Yidan Cui	Purdue University
Won Hong Choi	Purdue University

2022 Awardees

Yongjie Zhang

Purdue University

2019 Awardees

Caoyang Li	University of Kentucky
Keyu Chen	University of Kentucky
Zhuang Mo	Purdue University
Weimin Thor	Purdue University
Yu Xiong	The Pennsylvania State University
Brittany Wojciechowski	Wichita State University

2018 Awardees

Cameron McCormick	Penn State Universit
Weonchan Sung	Purdue University
Tongyang Shi	Purdue Universit
Weiyun Liu	University of Kentucky
Kangping Ruan	University of Kentucky
Sunit Girdhar	Michigan Technological University

2017 Awardees

Mahsa Asgarisabet	Michigan Technical University
Mohammed S. Gholami	Université de Sherbrooke
Siddharth Parmar,	Michigan Technical University
Miles Penhale	Michigan Technical University
Suraj Prabhu	Michigan Technical University
Micaela M. Thiery	Michigan Technical University
Nan Zhan	University of Kentucky

2016 Awardees

Seongil Hwang	Texas A&M University
Shu Jiang	Texas A&M University
Gil Jun Lee	University of Cincinnati
Hyunjun Shin	Purdue University
Mohammad S. Gholami	Université de Sherbrooke

2015 Awardees

Ethan Bourdeau	University of Hartford
Xin Yan (Kevin) Zheng	University of Hartford
Yitian Zhang	University of Kentucky
Rui Cao	Purdue University
Seungkyu Lee	Purdue University
Daniel J. Carr	Purdue University
Philip A. Feurtado	Pennsylvania State University
Zhongzheng Liu	Texas A&M University
Yawen Wang	University of Cincinnati

2014 Awardees

Cameron Fackler	Rensselaer Polytechnic University
Tao Feng	University of Cincinnati
Philip Feurtado	The Pennsylvania State University
Sean Kilgallin	Georgia Institute of Technology
Nicholas Kim	Purdue University
Hoang Le	Tennessee Technological University
Wanlu Li	University of Kentucky
Yangfan Liu	Purdue University
Olivier Robin	Université de Sherbrooke
Peng Wang	University of Kentucky
Daniel Woods	Purdue University
Liuxian Zhao	University of Notre Dame

Michiko So Finegold Award

This award was funded thanks to a generous endowment from the Michiko So Finegold Memorial Trust.

2023 Awardees

Joseph Aina	Morgan State University
Nathan Geib	The University of Texas at Arlington
Joohyun Lee	Purdue University

2022 Awardees

Sam Underwood	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Edwin Yazbec	Michigan Technological University
Kyosung Choo	Purdue University

2019 Awardees

Won Hong Choi	Purdue University
Stephania Vaglica	Michigan Tech University
Yongjie Zhuang	Purdue University
Gong Cheng	University of Kentucky
Steven Senczyszyn	Michigan Tech University
Guo Long	University of Cincinnati
Sunit Girdhar	Michigan Tech University

2018 Awardees

Xuchen Wang	Purdue University
Weimin Thor	Purdue University
Jonathan Chen	University of Kentucky
Srikumar C Gopalakrishnan	University of Cincinnati
Yutong Xu	Purdue University
Gil Jun Lee	University of Cincinnati
Hyunjun Shin	Purdue University
Nan Zhang	University of Kentucky
Hassan Azad	University of Florida
Suraj Prabhu	Michigan Technological University

2017 Awardees

Keyu Chen	University of Kentucky
Seongil Hwang	Texas A & M University
Jungdong Li	University of Kentucky
Kangping Ruan	University of Kentucky
Weonchan Sung	Purdue University

2016 Awardees

Mahsa Asgarisabet	Michigan Technological University
Philip A. Feurtado	Pennsylvania State University
Tao Feng	University of Cincinnati
Tongyang Shi	Purdue University
Peng Wang	University of Kentucky

2015 Awardees

Pasquale Bottalico	Michigan State University
Ivano Ipsaro Passione	Michigan State University
Nicholas Kim	Purdue University
Yangfan Liu	Purdue University
Hongdan Tao	Purdue University
Bao Ngoc Tong	Purdue University
Seongil Hwang	Texas A&M University

2014 Awardees

Rui Cao	Purdue University
Raef Cherif	Université de Sherbrooke
Seungkyu Lee	Purdue University
Guohua Sun	University of Cincinnati
Yawen Wang	University of Cincinnati
Junyi Yang	University of Cincinnati

2013 Awardees

Neil Figurella	Ohio State University
Xin Hua	University of Kentucky
Vignesh Jayakumar	University of Cincinnati
Beom Soo Kim	The Pennsylvania State University
Andrew McMullen	Purdue University
Selen Okcu	National Institute of Aerospace
Rachel Romond	The Pennsylvania State University
Yitian Zhang	University of Kentucky

E-A-R Thermal Acoustic Systems Award

E-A-R Thermal Acoustic Systems has made a generous donation to facilitate the travel of undergraduate and graduate students to INCE-sponsored conferences to present their work.

2014 Awardees

Nicholas Kim	Purdue University
Wanlu Li	University of Kentucky