Sandy Chen, a CivMin MASc candidate, was presented with the Katharine and Bryant Mather Scholarship at the ASTM C09 meetings December 3-7 in Washington, D.C. Chen is supervised by CivMin Professor Doug Hooton, who is also Chair of Committee C01 on Cements.
In addition to the scholarship, ASTM covered her travel to attend the cement and concrete standards meetings. According to the ASTM, This scholarship is presented each year, contingent upon available funds, to full-time undergraduate students completing their second/sophomore year of college, or later, or graduate students who are pursuing degrees specializing in cement or concrete materials technology, or concrete construction.
ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems, and services.