NCAC Student Travel Awards & Travel Grants
To promote the acoustical consulting profession, NCAC offers qualified students financial assistants to attend industry conferences. There are two grants available:
NCAC Student Travel Award
For in-person conferences: award includes a $1,000 grant, one-year subscription to electronic NCAC newsletter, and recognition as a travel award recipient.
Awards are limited to a maximum of one (1) ASA meeting per calendar year and two (2) awards per year (e.g. one ASA meeting and one INCE meeting). In addition, recipients may receive no more than five (5) Student Travel Awards over their lifetime.
For virtual conferences: award amount equals student registration reimbursement, one-year subscription to electronic NCAC newsletter, and recognition as a travel award recipient.
Eligibility:
- Enrolled in college or university program;
- Author of an accepted paper at a Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA), or Audio Engineering Society (AES) conference;
- Qualifying research topic (see Application Instructions for a list of qualifying topics);
- Show an interest in acoustical consulting profession;
- Completion of application packet, including faculty reference form.
Application Materials:
Upcoming Application Deadlines:
- June 1, 2026 for NOISE-CON 2026, Long Beach, CA, July 9-11, 2026
- November 1, 2026 for ASA 191st Meeting, Baltimore, MD, December 15-17, 2026
Send completed forms to ncac-sta@ncac.com.
2026 Student Travel Recipients
Spring ASA Meeting – Philadelphia, PA
- Emadoddin Abdoli, University of Cincinnati
- Abdoulaye Barry, University of the District of Columbia
- Jennifer Celeste, Michigan Technological University
- Anthony Ciletti, Michigan Technological University
- Brandon Cottle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Ying Fu, Pennsylvania State University
- Renzhi Guo, University of Florida
- Chidera Igwebuike, University of the District of Columbia
- Joshua Kapcsos, Pennsylvania State University
- Sara Kopeć, AGH University of Krakow
- Bertan Kurşun, University of Washington, Seattle
- Joshua Langlois, Pennsylvania State University
- Nick Lin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Saleh Naseer, University of Florida
- Erin Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University
- Matthew Olmstead, Pennsylvania State University
- Oscar Peterson-Veatch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Sponsored by Wenger Corporation)
- Natalie Ramos, University of Hartford
- Aleksandra Sawczuk, AGH University of Krakow (Sponsored by Unika Vaev)
- Paula Sedlacek, Pennsylvania State University
- Yu-Tong Wang, Pennsylvania State University
- Ruth Willet, Pennsylvania State University
- Mengyi Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Sponsored by BASWA Acoustic
2025 Student Travel Recipients
Spring ASA Meeting – New Orleans, LA
- Colin Gaines, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Greg Hernandez, Duke University
- Harrison Freedman, University of Florida
- Kevin Kim, Penn State University
- Matt Ripley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Matthew Olmstead, Pennsylvania State University
- Melina Jones Bem, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Mengyi Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Olivia Huei Young Park, Pennsylvania State University
- Saleh Naseer, University of Florida
- Samuel Underwood, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Yu-Tong Wang, Pennsylvania State University
- Ziqi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Noise-Con 2025 – Stowe, VT
- Adeolu Banjo, Morgan State University
- Anthony Ciletti, Michigan Technological University
- Carter Paprocki, Pennsylvania State University
- Grace Balogun, Morgan State University
- Joshua Kapcsos, Pennsylvania State University
- Julius Etuke, Morgan State University
- Kara Hardy, Michigan Technological University
- Levi Rios, University of Texas at Arlington
- Michael Oketunde Okegbola, Morgan State University
- Samuel Akosile, Morgan State University
- Xinqi Wei, University of Texas at Arlington
- Ziqi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fall ASA Meeting – Honolulu, HI
- Anna Mattson, University of Nebraska Lincoln
- Divyamaan Sahoo, Pennsylvania State University
- Erin Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University
- Greg Hernandez, Duke University
- Hajin Oh, Purdue University
- Janith Godakawela, Michigan Technological University
- Jee Woo (Kevin) Kim, Pennsylvania State University
- Jennifer Celeste, Michigan Technological University
- Jinghe Yu, Purdue University
- Joshua Kapcsos, Pennsylvania State University
- Juhyung Kim, Purdue University
- Junhyeok Choi, The School of Architecture, Virginia Tech
- Kaitlyn Tabet, University of Florida
- Megan Wysocki, The School of Architecture, Virginia Tech
- Mengyi Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Milena Jonas Bem, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Paula Sedlacek, Pennsylvania State University
- Rayven Baker, University of Florida
- Ting-Shian Chen, Purdue University
- Yijie Zhang, Purdue University
- Yu-Tong Wang, Pennsylvania State University
- Ziqi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2024 Student Travel Award Recipients
Noise-Con 2024 – New Orleans, LA
- Ziqi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Janith Godakawela, Michigan Technical University
- Song Guochenhao, Purdue University
- Srinivasa Rao Ippili, University of Kentucky
- Sogand Okhovatian, University of Toronto
Spring ASA Meeting – Ottawa, Canada
- Mac Geoffrey Ajaereh, University of Bath, UK
- John Case, The Pennsylvania State University
- Ziqi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Erick Correa Medina, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Phebe Cunningham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Hezekiah George, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Olivia Heui Young Park, The Pennsylvania State University
- Martin Mann, Baldwin Wallace University
- Robert Nelson, The Pennsylvania State University
- Sogand Okhovatian, University of Toronto, Canada
- Matthew Olmstead, The Pennsylvania State University
- Katia Padilla Bustos, National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Noah Parker, The Pennsylvania State University
- Raymond Plasse, Belmont University
- Rami Rashid, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Divyamaan Sahoo, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
- Yu-Tong Wang, The Pennsylvania State University
- Jonah Warner, The Pennsylvania State University
- Gabriel Weeldreyer, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Ruth Willet, The Pennsylvania State University
- Prajna Jandial, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2023 Student Travel Award Recipients
Spring ASA Meeting – Chicago, IL
- Song Guochenhao, Purdue University
- Zhuang Mo, Purdue University
- Samuel Underwood, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Gabriel Weeldreyer, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
- Ziqi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Jonathan Broyles, Pennsylvania State University
- Carter Paprocki, Pennsylvania State University
- Olivia Park, Pennsylvania State University
- Lalith Pillarisetti, Pennsylvania State University
- Ruth Willet, Pennsylvania State University
- Sunit Girdhar, Michigan Technological University
- Fernanda Caldas, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Noise-Con 2023 – Grand Rapids, MI
- Ziqi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fall ASA 2023 -Sydney, Australia
- Laura Brownstead, Penn State University
- John Case, Penn State University
- Hao Di, Waseda University, Japan
- Gregory Hernandez, Duke University
- Guoseng Ji, University of Oxford, England
- William Johnston, Michigan Technical University
- Milena Jonas Bem, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rewan Toubar, Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada
- Matthew Olmstead, Penn State University