AISI Council Launches Fellowship Program; Announces Recipients
The American Iron and Steel Institute Standards Council has launched a Small Project Fellowship Program to identify and provide funding for research projects that will significantly impact the reliability, performance, and cost-competitiveness of cold-formed steel framing products in a variety of end-use applications. AISI also announced four project winners for the 2014 awards. AISI’s Standards Council initiates cold-formed steel standards development projects and maintains accreditation by the American National Standards Institute.
The Small Project Fellowship Program provides a streamlined mechanism for AISI’s standards development committees (the Committee on Specifications and Committee on Framing Standards), industry stakeholders, academics and students to collaborate on relatively short-term, highly focused, and mutually beneficial projects. Project selections are based on several factors, including the potential for long-term impact on the industry; steel industry engagement and co-funding; and results for the AISI standards development committee, the student, and the academic institution.