Astani Graduate Scholars Program
The Sonny Astani Graduate Scholars’ program seeks to recruit academically strong candidates into our Master’s programs. This merit-based honor offers recipients funded positions to engage with academic research labs or industry-sponsored projects depending on Scholar preference. Additionally, Scholars will have intimate opportunities to interact with faculty, industry professionals, and alumni through exclusive networking opportunities, alumni events, and professional development seminars. Scholars will also receive priority consideration for a variety of other opportunities, if desired. To learn more about the program, visit our
website
.
First Name
(Given)
Last Name
(Family/Surname)
Email
GPA
self-reported
CAS ID Number
(input numbers only)
CAS ID is provided after you start your USC graduate application. This will help us expedite the processing of your application.
Please note this is not the same as the 10-digit USC ID.
Where do you see yourself in ten years professionally and how will the Astani Graduate Scholars Program help achieve your career goals?
500 words max
Summarize your past research and/or professional accomplishments.
500 words max
Select the top three areas of
Civil and Environmental Engineering
you are most interested in
:
Air Pollution
Applied/Structural Mechanics
Civil Engineering
Coastal and Ocean Engineering
Computational Mechanics
Construction Engineering
Earthquake Engineering
Emerging Technologies in Construction
Environmental Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
Informatics for Intelligent Built Environments
Risk Assessment/Uncertainty
Structural Dynamics/Control
Structural Engineering/Design
Transportation Engineering
Tsunami/Hydrodynamics
Water Quality/Chemistry/Biology
Water Resources Engineering
Select which funded opportunities you are interested in as an Astani Scholar
Academic research in a departmental research group
Industry or government-sponsored project
I am interested in both academic and industry opportunities
Are you most interested in computational or experimental project opportunities?
Computational
Experimental
No preference
Please select
up to three
faculty members you are interested in working with:
Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Amy Childress
Felipe De Barros
Bora Gencturk
David Gerber
Amin Ghadami
Roger Ghanem
Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz
Roxana Javid
Erik Johnson
Berok Khoshnevis
Geraldine Knatz
Henry Koffman
Vincent Lee
Ruolin Li
Patrick Lynett
Sami Masri
Daniel McCurry
Najmedin Meshkati
Sifat Muin
Farzad Naeim
Chukwuebuka Nweke
Audrey Olivier
Thomas Petersen
Massoud Pirbazari
Amy Rechenmacher
Kelly Sanders
Keten Savla
Adam Simpson
Adam Smith
Lucio Soibelman
Costas Synolakis
Mihailo Trifunac
Qiming Wang
Carter Wellford
Jiachen Zhang
Bo-Tong Zheng
optional