LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 4, 2005) -- University of Kentucky civil engineering senior Michael T. Davidson has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship with a value exceeding $100,000.
Davidson, of Pendleton, Ky., will receive a three-year stipend of $30,000, along with tuition and a $10,500 cost of education allowance under the fellowship.
He won the fellowship on his proposal to study how bridges are affected by terrorist attack and impacts from barges and trucks. Davidson wants to create software to help designers build stronger bridges.
At UK, Davidson’s instructors included civil engineering professor Issam Harik, who encouraged him to seek the NSF Fellowship. He said he became interested in bridge design while working a cooperative education assignment with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during a semester in his sophomore year.
He will receive his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at UK’s 138th Commencement on Sunday, May 8.
A former UK student, Karla Conn, received an NSF Graduate Fellowship in the current year’s program. A 2003 graduate in electrical and computer engineering, Conn is attending graduate school at Vanderbilt University.
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