ASHRAE Illinois Chapter Scholarship Program

2027 APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED STARTING October, 2026

Application Deadline: 1/31/2027

Download ASHRAE Illinois Scholarship Application (PDF Version)

 

Congratulations AGAIN TO OUR MOST RECENT ScholarS

Mingyu Wang – 5th year graduate student at Illinois Institute of Technology

 

Ganesh S.P. Saptharishi 6th year graduate student at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nathaniel Siegler – Sophomore undergraduate student at Illinois Institute of Technology

Saeed Farhoodi – 3rd year graduate student at Illinois Institute of Technology

 

Scholarships were presented to 3 of the 4 recipients at the April CTTC meeting at Fellowes Showroom (800 W. Fulton Market):

           

    Special thanks to scholarship essay reviewers
    - Claudine Harig (Elara Engineering)
    - Dave Bogot (Boilersource)
    - Mike LeResche (Premier Mechanical)
    - Bill Cantrall (Ketchum & Walton)
    - KB Pasternock (Thermosystems)

    ASHRAE National Scholarship Program

    ASHRAE National also offer many scholarship and fellowship opportunities!

    For more information about ASHRAE National Scholarship, Click Here

    ASHRAE Student Chapters

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    Past recipients

    2025 Scholarship Recipients- Saeed Farhoodi (IIT), Saman Haratian (IIT), Jongki Lee (IIT), Samantha Muller (IIT), Aditya Singh (IIT)

    2024 Scholarship RecipientsSaeed Farhoodi (IIT), Saman Haratian (IIT), Jongki Lee (IIT), Samantha Muller (IIT), Aditya Singh (IIT)

    2023 Scholarship Recipients - Ramisha Haque (IIT), Ei Htet Susan Mon (IIT), Muntaha Imteyaz (IIT), Behzad Salimian Rizi (IIT)

    2022 Scholarship Recipients - Aaron Horta (IIT), Behzad Sallmian Rizi (IIT), Insung Kang (IIT), Brandon Apostal (Bradley)

    2021 Scholarship Recipients — Alouki Shah (IIT), Zahra Khuwaja (IIT), Cristina Menchaca (UIC), Urwa Irfan (IIT), Michael Moccio (U of I), and Behzad Salimian Rizi (IIT)

    2020 Scholarship Recipients — Ezgi Takmaz (UIC), Zahra Khuwaja (IIT), Alouki Shah (IIT), and Brandon Apostal (Bradley Univ.)

    2019 Scholarship Recipients — Esther Rebecca Nazziwa (IIT), Erica Acton (IIT), Hibatullah Ismail (UIC), and Vinit Rajesh Gala (UIC).

    2018 Scholarship Recipients — Sean Killarney (IIT) $1,500, Hardik Satish Miyani (UIC) $1,500, Lisa White (UIC) $1,500, Zaki Mafraji (UIC) $750, and Esther Rebecca Nazziwa (IIT) $750

    2017 Scholarship RecipientsHibatullah Ismail (UIC) $3000, Huize Li (UI-Urbana) $3000, Muhammad Hashim (UIC) $1500, and Jingwei Zhu (UI-Urbana) $1500

    2016 Scholarship RecipientsKevin Summers (UIC) $3000, Muhammad Hashim (UIC) $3000, Ian Bonadeo (UIC) $1500, and Mohammed Badruddin Saad (Bradley University) $1500

    2015 Scholarship Recipients — Kelly Costello (UIC) $3000, Kevin Summers (UIC) $3000, Panos Bakos (UIC) $1500, Ian Bonadeo (UIC) $1500, and Amir Salarifard (UIC) $1500

    2014 Scholarship RecipientsKelly Costello (UIC) $3000, Amir Salarifard (UIC) $3000, Ben Campbell (UIC) $1500 and Matt Kaleta (UIC) $1500

    2013 Scholarship RecipientsJames Pena (UIC) $3000, Hanfei Tuo (UIUC) $3000, Alvaro Gonzalez (IIT) $1500 Maher Maymoun (UIC) $1500

    2012 Scholarship Recipients Shiv Patel (Bradley) $3000, Jingyu Lee (IIT) $3000, Augusto Zimmerman (UIUC) $1500, Bryant Morris (Bradley) $1500

    2011 Scholarship RecipientsJingyu Lee (IIT) $3000, Grace Junge (UIC) $1500, Daniel Maier (IIT) $1500, Jing He (UIUC) $1500, Marina Horchin (IIT) $1500

    2010 Scholarship RecipientsStephanie Iwanski (UIC) $3000, Tyler Brown (UIUC) $2000, Kelsey Dolan ($2000), Tyler Throop (UIUC) $2000

    2009 Scholarship Recipients — Lynette Hromada (Calvin College) $1500, Wendy Negron (Elgin CC) $1500, Tim Johnson (UIC) $1000, Jaime Kelleher (U of Florida) $1000, Ryan Ollie (U of Michigan) $1000

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