BSCES Freeman Fund
BSCES Freeman Fund
John R. Freeman was a preeminent hydraulics engineer in Boston a century ago, and a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers for half a century. In 1925, recognizing “the occasional helpfulness of a small fund to a young investigator full of the zeal of youth but limited in resources for investigation,” he gave the Society $25,000 to establish a fund to be devoted to the encouragement of young engineers in various ways, including grants for research, or aid in the publication of meritorious books and papers, or traveling scholarships, or a prize for a particularly worthy paper.
The Freeman fund accepts applications for grants that support young engineers with research, aid in publications of papers and books, travel expenses, or as a prize for a worthy paper. The applications are reviewed as they are received.
“It seems only fair that, when one has found lifelong happiness, and attained a competence from his profession, he should recognize the debt he owes to those who went before him and whose data he used, and should in some way try to help those young [engineers] in his profession who are following after.” -John R Freeman
