The AIST Foundation Announces Junior Faculty Award
02/04/2013 - The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation has created the AIST Foundation Junior Faculty Award to increase the number of younger engineering professors with a vested interest in the iron and steel industry.
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation has created the AIST Foundation Junior Faculty Award to increase the number of younger engineering professors with a vested interest in the iron and steel industry.
The AIST Foundation Junior Faculty Award is open to all technical engineering disciplines, and will assist junior faculty in building their research and professional service activities toward obtaining tenure.
The award will provide funding to encourage the junior faculty member to become better informed about the steel industry, encourage students to pursue careers in the iron and steel industry, provide seed money for steel-related research projects, and develop relationships between university and industry personnel.
“A core value for the AIST Foundation is not only to attract young, talented professionals into our industry, but also to assure that the brightest, most talented professors are attracted and retained as they pursue a path to tenure,” said Thomas J. Russo, AIST Foundation president, and president and chief executive officer of MMFX Technologies Corp. “The Foundation Trustees take great pride in announcing this new award and are truly grateful to the steel industry and all donors for their support as we endeavor to ensure that the steel industry of the future has well-trained technology professionals.”
One award will be given each year to faculty in year one to five of their initial tenure-track. The maximum grant per award will be US$35,000 per year, renewable for a maximum of three years. An annual report must be submitted for award continuation, and each new award will begin in August.
Proposals will be solicited from tenure-track professors of technical engineering disciplines at universities in North America. Proposals should include a three-year plan and indicate how the professor would approach the task of fulfilling the award objective. Complete details on the AIST Foundation Junior Faculty Award and the proposal process can be found at AISTFoundation.org under Scholarships and Grants.
The AIST Foundation is a Pennsylvania-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation organized for charitable, education and scientific purposes that seeks to attract technology-oriented professionals to the steel industry by educating the public about the high-tech, diverse and rewarding nature of careers in modern steelmaking. The Foundation receives contributions from industry corporations and individual members of AIST.
To ensure the grants funded by the Foundation go directly to the intended purpose, it is the policy of the AIST Foundation to not allow overhead costs. The AIST Foundation reserves the right to assess grants on a case-by-case basis to determine the application of this policy. The AIST Foundation is part of AIST, an international professional and technical association of more than 16,000 professional and student members from 70 countries. For more information about the AIST Foundation, visit AISTFoundation.org.
