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Interested in a career in tunneling and underground engineering? UCA can help you get there!
Scholarships exist to help you further your career aspirations. Click on the link below to apply for the scholarship of your choice.
Application Deadline April 20, 2024
Conference Scholarships:
(Conference Scholarships provide registration to the conference and some travel reimbursement.)
Scholarship for Conference Attendance provides selected students with an opportunity to attend where they can experience first-hand the challenges, opportunities and rewards of a career in the field of tunneling and underground construction. The scholarship is sponsored and awarded by the UCA and RETC.
NAT Conference Attendance Guidelines
Conference Participating Scholarship includes:
- Conference Registration
- A one-year student membership to UCA of SME
- An invitation to the Networking Event and the Scholarship Orientation
- Valuable opportunities to network with industry experts and potential employers
- Up to $1,000 travel reimbursement to the conference (these funds are intended to cover travel costs associated with the conference and recipients will need to provide an expense account following the conference.)
Cutting Edge Conference Attendance Scholarship--Opens in August 2024
Cutting Edge Scholarship for Conference Attendance provides selected students with an opportunity to attend the Cutting Edge Conference in November where they can experience first-hand the challenges, opportunities and rewards of a career in the field of tunneling and underground construction.
UCA Cutting Edge Scholarship for Conference Attendance Guidelines
This scholarship includes:
- Conference Registration
- A one-year student membership to UCA of SME
- An invitation to the UCAYM Networking Event and the Scholarship
- Orientation at the conference
- Valuable opportunities to network with industry experts and potential employers
- A $1,000 travel reimbursementto the conference (these funds are intended to cover travel costs associated with the conferene and recipients will need to provide an expense account following the conference.)
RETC Conference Attendance Scholarship--Opens in January 2025
The Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) is a biennial international conference dedicated to the exchange of new developments in the technology of underground rapid excavation and tunneling on a global scale. The RETC Attendance Award provides selected students with an opportunity to attend the RETC Conference. Applicants must be full-time freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, or graduate students with a designated major in an applicable field of engineering (civil, mechanical, mining, electrical, geological) or construction management. Applicants must have a demonstrated interest in the underground industry.
RETC Scholarship for Conference Attendance Award Guidelines
Scholarship Description
Up to 12 recipients will be selected. Each recipient will receive:
• RETC Conference Registration
• Round-trip airfare to Conference
• Hotel Accommodations at the conference hotel
• Conference Proceedings
• Social Function Tickets
• $200 stipend for miscellaneous cash needs
Recipients are responsible for their own ground transportation and for any other expenses, including meals, other than the social functions provided.
Academic Scholarships:
(This scholarship provides money, registration to the conference, and some travel reimbursement.)
Academic Scholarship--Now Open
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration annually awards one or more scholarships to promising college students who desire to develop their skills in the tunneling industry. The total amount of the award (approximately $5,000) is apportioned to one or more students at the discretion of the RETC Executive Committee.
Academic Scholarship Guidelines
Also receives:
• NAT Conference Registration
• Round-trip airfare to the Conference
• Hotel Accommodations at the conference hotel
• Conference Proceedings
• Social Function Tickets
• $200 stipend for miscellaneous cash needs
Recipients are responsible for their own ground transportation and for any other expenses, including meals, other than the social functions provided.
CIVIL UNDERGROUND TEACH THE PROFESSORS/LECTURERS PROGRAM
This program is aimed at providing education and curriculum in the growing field of civil underground to professors/instructors who teach junior level structural, geotechnical and construction courses.
Eligible professors/instructors are those who will teach structural, geotechnical or construction engineering to junior level civil engineering students during academic year 2024-25.
Application Deadline is April 10
Civil Underground Teach the Professors:
Teach the Professors
Civil underground involves the design and construction of tunnels, shafts, deep excavations, and underground infrastructure. ASCE and UCA (Underground Construction Association) technical committees have identified the shortage of trained civil engineers to be a major threat to this growing infrastructure sector.
Ten civil engineering professors/instructors will be selected to attend the North American Tunneling Conference (NAT) in Nashville, TN, June 23-26, 2024.
- No experience in civil underground is needed.
- A passion for teaching civil engineering undergrads is needed!
Your school must located in the United States.
- Participant will implement appropriate lessons, homework problems, and/or presentations in a junior level course (intro to geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, construction engineering) during the academic year 2024-25.
Participants must be able to attend the conference.
Participants must participate in 2-3 meetings prior to the conference and share developed curriculum within 6 months after the conference.
Participants will receive:
-$1,500 honorarium plus all travel expenses
-Conference Registration
- Participation in a curriculum workshop during the conference
- Valuable opportunities to network with industry experts and potential employers