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RESEARCH REPORT

Grants-in-Aid
ASHRAE grants-in-aid (GIA) provide $10,000
to each selected graduate student to conduct
research in fields of interest to ASHRAE. In 2019-2020, 19 graduate student grants-in-aid were awarded. These went to: Tareq
Abuimara of Carleton University, Yiyi Chu of Iowa State University,
Afshin Faramarzi of Illinois Institute of Technology, Kheiri Farshad
of Texas A&M University, Ellyn Harges of Auburn University, Brent
Huchuk of University of Toronto, Sangeetha Kumar of University
Texas Austin, Qinbo Li of Texas A&M University, Tianyuan Li of
University of Toronto, Jonathan Ore of Purdue University, Gen Pei
of Pennsylvania State University, Pradeep Ramasubramanian of
Portland State University, Hadi Ramin of University of Saskatchewan,
Saad Saleem of Oklahoma State University, Jacob Tabeel of Oregon
State University, Mengjie Tang of University of Texas Austin, Danielle
Wagner of Purdue University, Yunyang Ye of University of Colorado
Boulder, Ioannidis Zisis of Concordia University.
Each grant recipient also has the opportunity of earning an additional $1,500 honorarium if they author and present a technical paper
on their research project at the winter or annual Society meeting.

Research Projects (cont.)
from self-generated ideas. We prefer to see unsolicited
research proposals submitted in either early May or
December each year so we have sufﬁcient time to review
the proposal prior to the Society's Annual and Winter
meetings respectively.
Whether the proposals are solicited from work statements or are unsolicited, they should include the following information:
Precisely what is to be done, by whom, under whose
personal supervision;
Estimate of man-hours, materials, instruments and
apparatus required, and costs for each;
Information regarding the investigator's special expertise, experience, and/or ability that especially qualiﬁes
the individual for the proposed research;
Identify the contribution, if any, from the research organization's resources for conducting the project.

The highest-rated recipients, Jonathan Ore, Mengjie Tang and Ellyn
Harges hold the added distinction of being named the Life Members'
Club GIA recipients, and their grants are funded by financial contributions from club members.
The latest grants brought the total to $5,247,392 awarded to
681 students during the 52 years the program has been in effect.
Recipients have represented more than 100+ different colleges and
universities.
In order to be eligible for an award, the applicant must be a full-time
graduate student who is either currently working on, or proposing to work
on, a research project that has relevance to ASHRAE. The student must
also have a faculty advisor who will supervise the research. Applicants
from all ASHRAE regions worldwide are eligible.
Graduate student grants-in-aid applications can be downloaded from
the "Research" page of the ASHRAE website under the "Research" page
or "Student Zone" page (https://www.ashrae.org/communities/studentzone/scholarships-and-grants/graduate-student-grant-in-aid-awardprogram). Faculty advisors send completed applications and student
transcripts to the Manager of Research & Technical Services, ASHRAE,
1791 Tullie Circle, NE, Atlanta, GA 30329 by no later than March 1st (New
Submission Deadline) of each year.

Research
Expenditures
The Board of Directors have approved
$3,513,700 for research projects and grants-in-aid
payments for ﬁscal year 2019-2020, but a large portion of this amount has already been committed to the
approximately 55 active projects already under way. Also
competing for new project funds are seventeen tentative
research projects and many other project topics in various stages of development.
Active projects are summarized in this report. The
summaries include: the title of the project, the start
date, the end date or projected (P) end date, the names
of the contractor and principal investigator, the sponsoring technical committee monitoring the research,
earmarked co-funding, and a brief description of the
project.

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