DFI50 Student & Young Professor Call For Abstracts
Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, January 13, 2025
DFI Educational Trust invites you to submit abstracts for the Student and Young Professor Paper Competitions. The authors of the winning papers will be invited to attend DFI’s 50th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations (#DFI50) in Nashville to present their paper. Complimentary conference registration, two nights of lodging, and a $1,000 stipend for travel expenses will be provided to the winners.
Student Requirements
- Student must be enrolled in an accredited college or university in
an undergraduate or graduate program in the field of engineering,
construction or geological sciences.
- Papers are judged based on draft submissions. The paper must
be based on the student’s own work and be presented in his/
her own writing. Student(s) must be the primary author(s) of the
paper. Advisors and project collaborators may be paper coauthors
and must attest that the paper reflects the student’s own
work and writing.
- Multiple students may co-author a single paper submission for
the competition but will share the prize should their paper be
deemed the winner or runner-up.
- Papers should be of sufficient quality for publishing in the journal.
Young Professor Requirements
- Professor must be a full-time, entry-level, faculty member
teaching or involved in research at an accredited college or
university.
- Professional field must be engineering, construction or
geological sciences.
- Papers are judged based on draft submissions. The paper
must be based on the professor’s own work and may include
contributions from his/her research students as secondary
authors.
- Papers should be of sufficient quality for publishing in the
journal.
- Student must be enrolled in an accredited college or university in an undergraduate or graduate program in the field of engineering, construction or geological sciences.
- Papers are judged based on draft submissions. The paper must be based on the student’s own work and be presented in his/ her own writing. Student(s) must be the primary author(s) of the paper. Advisors and project collaborators may be paper coauthors and must attest that the paper reflects the student’s own work and writing.
- Multiple students may co-author a single paper submission for the competition but will share the prize should their paper be deemed the winner or runner-up.
- Papers should be of sufficient quality for publishing in the journal.
Young Professor Requirements
- Professor must be a full-time, entry-level, faculty member
teaching or involved in research at an accredited college or
university.
- Professional field must be engineering, construction or
geological sciences.
- Papers are judged based on draft submissions. The paper
must be based on the professor’s own work and may include
contributions from his/her research students as secondary
authors.
- Papers should be of sufficient quality for publishing in the
journal.
Important Dates
- Abstracts Due: Monday, January 13, 2025
- Paper Deadline (up to 20-page paper): Monday, July 14, 2025
- Winners Announced and Comments Returned to Authors: Late August 2025
- Final PowerPoint Deadline (winner only): Friday, October 3, 2025