Fred H. Kulhawy Memorial Scholarship
Spring applications will open April 1, 2025
The Fred H. Kulhawy Memorial Scholarship Fund was established in 2018. The fund honors Professor Fred H. Kulhawy’s contribution to the deep foundations industry, and provides scholarships to students enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate civil engineering program at any accredited college or university in the United States.
Award
Several scholarships, ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 each will be awarded in 2025. Awards may be used for funding tuition, fees, books, and/or educational living expenses.
Scholarship check, payable to the student, will be sent in August 2025 after proof of enrollment and other required information is received by the DFI Educational Trust.
Eligibility & Requirements
The Fred H. Kulhawy Memorial Scholarship is part of the DFI Trust At-Large scholarship program. Only one at-large application is required – submitting an application for any at-large scholarship will grant eligibility to the applicant for all at-large scholarships. Applicants cannot pick any single at-large scholarship and exclude the rest.
For full details on submitting an at-large scholarship, please review the at-large scholarship requirements.
Fred H. Kulhawy (1943-2015)
Professor Fred H. Kulhawy, was professor emeritus of civil and geotechnical engineering at Cornell University, a consulting geotechnical engineer and an enthusiastic stamp collector. He was an active member of DFI since 1989 and was DFI’s 2007 Hal Hunt lecturer, presenting “Communicating Technical Issues with Levity and Panache,”” and a speaker for the DFI Educational Trust in 2011 at the annual gala, presenting “A View of Civil Engineering as Portrayed in Postage Stamps.” Kulhawy received his B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
His teaching and research focused on foundations, soil-structure interaction, dams, soil and rock behavior, and geotechnical computer and reliability applications, and he authored over 365 published technical papers and reports. Kulhawy gave more than 1,420 lectures around the world and received numerous awards for his work from ASCE, ADSC, IEEE and others, including election to Distinguished Member of ASCE, the ASCE Karl Terzaghi Award and Norman Medal, and the CGS Meyerhof Award. Kulhawy had extensive experience in geotechnical engineering practice with several consulting firms, and was a private consultant for major projects on six continents.
Founding Donors
Supporters
- Supporter Gloria Kulhawy
Donors
- Magued Iskander
- Mary Ellen Bruce Large and Michael Large
- Paul and Karen Mayne
- Beverly W. and James Withiam