AISC
Milek Fellowship
UPDATES
May 17, 2024 Update
Notes to Potential 2025 Applicants
The 2025 Milek Fellowship Application period is fastly approaching! The Application Materials and Program Description are being updated for the 2025 program, and official dates for accepting applications are being finalized for the opening and closing periods.
- The award amount for the 2025 Fellowship will be $ 75,000 per year over a four-year period or $300,000 total.
- The award amount increased from $50,000 to $75,000 per year starting with the 2024 award to M.Z. Naser at Clemson University, and will remain at the $75,000 per year level going forward.
- The official 2025 Application Materials and Program Description will be posted to this website June 30, 2024.
- The Application period when AISC will accept applications is being finalized, but will likely begin in early August with a closing date of sometime around early-mid September. More to come on that when the Application Materials and Program Description are posted on June 30.
- For 2024 applicants whose applications were not selected, AISC will provide feedback on proposals on or before June 20, 2024. Please contact AISC's Director of Research, Devin Huber (huber@aisc.org), if you would like to discuss feedback on your previous proposal.
- New applicants who would like to discuss the program and potential topics of interest can also reach out to Devin Huber - please note '2025 Milek Program' somewhere in the subject line and CC research@aisc.org.
December 13, 2023 Update
Congratulations to the 2024 Milek Fellowship Recipient, Mohannad Z. (M.Z.) Naser!
GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION
About the Milek Fellowship
Each year, AISC selects a promising non-tenured university faculty member as the AISC Milek Fellow (formerly the AISC Faculty Fellow), a four-year, $75,000-per-year award. The award was renamed after William A. Milek Jr., former AISC Vice President of Engineering and Research, to recognize his invaluable contributions to AISC and the structural steel industry as a whole.
Part of the value of this program to AISC, the selected fellow, and the university is the public recognition of the honor. The faculty member whose application is selected will be identified as the AISC Milek Fellow in selected publications and other venues will be presented with a Milek Fellow certificate and will receive free registration at NASCC: The Steel Conference for the four years following their selection as Milek Fellow. The faculty member is to use this fellowship to support students with high potential to be valuable contributors to the U.S. structural steel construction industry and should strive to fund a doctoral candidate with at least half of the fellowship money. The subject of study may be chosen from a wide array of topics in steel design and construction.
Past Milek Fellowship Recipients
Year | Investigator | Institution | Project |
2024 | Mohannad Z. Naser | Clemson University | SteelGPT: Automating Structural Design of Steel Structures |
2023 | Ryan Sherman | Georgia Institute of Technology | Additive Manufacturing for Structural Steel Applications |
2022 | Kara Peterman | University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Holistic Design and Behavior of Adhesive Steel-to-Steel Connections |
2021 | Willam N. Collins | University of Kansas | Innovative Steel Deck System for Highway Bridge Applications |
2020 | Matt Yarnold | Texas A&M | Behavior of Hot Rolled Asymmetric Steel I‐Beams |
2019 | Johnn P. Judd | Brigham Young University | Inelastic Design Method for Steel Buildings Subjected to Wind Loads with the Goal to Increase Design Simplicity, Economy, and Performance |
2018 | Gary S. Prinz | University of Arkansas | Steel Seismic Systems with Architectural Flexibility: Seismic Performance of Non-Orthogonal SMF Beam-to-Column Connections |
2017 | Patricia Clayton | UT-Austin | Seismic Performance of Moment-Resisting Frames with Fuse-Type Connections |
2016 | Spencer Quiel | Lehigh University | Performance-Based Design of Passive Fire Protection for Floor Systems in Steel-Framed Buildings |
2015 | Matthew Fadden | University of Kansas | Thin Composite Two-way Flooring Systems for Structural Steel Systems |
2014 | Michael Pollino | Case Western Reserve University | Damage Resistant Design Methodology For Multi-Hazard Resilient Buildings |
2013 | Luis Ibarra | University of Utah | Effect of Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) Boundary Conditions on the Seismic Resilience of Braced Frames |
2012 | Matthew Eatherton | Virginia Tech | Development of Buckling Resistant Steel Plate Shear Walls |
2011 | Shih-Ho Chao | University of Texas at Arlington | Quantification of Seismic Performance Factors for Steel Staggered Truss and Eccentrically Braced Framing Systems |
2010 | Jason McCormick | University of Michigan | Seismic Applications of Hollow Structural Sections in Moment-Resisting Frames |
2009 | Larry Fahnestock | University of Illinois | Reserve Capacity in Steel Concentrically-Braced Frames: Implications for Seismic Behavior, Design and Performance |
2008 | Jeffrey Berman | University of Washington | Improving the Threat Independent Life-Safety of Steel Gravity Framing Systems |
2007 | Venkatesh Kodur | Michigan State University | Performance-Based Methodology for Demonstrating the Feasibility of Unprotected Steel in Sprinklered Buildings. |
2006 | Ben Schafer | Johns Hopkins University | Cross Section Stability of Structural Steel |
2005 | Judy Liu | Purdue University | Slit Steel Shear Walls |
2004 | Amit Varma | Michigan State University / Purdue University | Development of Innovative Long-Span Slab Systems for Multi-Story Residential Steel Structures |