Grants

The AEESP Foundation's Grant program is to allow individuals and/or organizations to utilize expertise garnered from research and teaching at the university level to improve K-12 instruction, with the goal of preparing students to be future environmental engineers and scientists.  Based on the feedback provided by previous AEESP Foundation educational grants, the award amount has been increased to $5,000 to increase the range and impact of the proposed educational activities.

A maximum of two awards will be made each calendar year.  The deadline for submitting educational grant proposals in 2024 was 11:59 pm ET on September 30, 2024. The grant application portal is now closed.


Questions regarding the AEESP Foundation grants program and proposal submissions should be sent to Jennifer Becker, AEESP Foundation Chair at jgbecker@mtu.edu.

Guidelines for proposals [PDF] »

Grants awarded in 2023:

  • Daniel Giammar, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Boya Xiong, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Grants awarded in 2021:

  • Parthiba Karthikeyan Obulisammy, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (Final Report Here)
  • Guangbin Li, University of Maryland College Park (Final Report Here)
  • Jejal Reddy Bathi, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Grants awarded in 2020:

Grants awarded in 2019:

  • Onur Apul, University of Maine (Final Report Here)
  • Dongyang Deng, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
  • Michelle Homan and Varun Kasaraneni, Gannon University
  • Brenda Read-Daily, Elizabethtown College (Final Report Here)
  • Jessica Wilson, Manhattan College
    (Final Report Here)

Grants awarded in 2018:

  • Shamia Hoque, University of South Carolina
    (Final Report Here)
  • Simeng Li, Florida State University
    (Final Report Here)
  • Juan Maestre, University of Texas at Austin
  • Thinesh Selvaratnam, Lamar University

Grants awarded in 2017:

Grants awarded in 2016:

2015 travel awards:

Awards were made to three conference participants who presented work related to k-12 education.

  • Ryan Locicero, University of South Florida
  • Emma Lopez, University of South Florida
  • Kevin Gilmore, Bucknell University

2013 travel awards:

Awards were made to three conference participants who presented work related to k-12 education.

  • Justin Lawrence, UC Berkeley
  • Daniel Yeh, University of South Florida
  • Barbara Moskal, Colorado School of Mines