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
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Mingyu Wang – 5th year graduate student at Illinois Institute of Technology |
Ganesh S.P. Saptharishi – 6th year graduate student at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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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!
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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 Recipients – Saeed 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 Recipients — Hibatullah Ismail (UIC) $3000, Huize Li (UI-Urbana) $3000, Muhammad Hashim (UIC) $1500, and Jingwei Zhu (UI-Urbana) $1500
2016 Scholarship Recipients — Kevin 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 Recipients — Kelly Costello (UIC) $3000, Amir Salarifard (UIC) $3000, Ben Campbell (UIC) $1500 and Matt Kaleta (UIC) $1500
2013 Scholarship Recipients — James 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 Recipients — Jingyu Lee (IIT) $3000, Grace Junge (UIC) $1500, Daniel Maier (IIT) $1500, Jing He (UIUC) $1500, Marina Horchin (IIT) $1500
2010 Scholarship Recipients — Stephanie 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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