StAR Fund AWARD APPLICATION FORM ‘The ASCE Foundation provides awards to individuals to assist with the costs of participation in technical and professional activities approved by the ASCE Foundation and which will enhance th career in civil engineering, The activities are mainiy, but not limited to, conferences, symposia, and ‘workshops related to civil engineering. Applicants should first read the Information for Applicants. ‘The following application form should be completed in full and emailed to siudent@asce.ora on or before the next deadline. A scan of pages with sicnatures is required. Deadline dates for applications are: 4 August 4 October 1 May Applications submitted for a panel review deadline that is less than within 8 weeks of an event will not be considered. No applications will be considered post-event. Section 1: Your details First name of applicant: Last name: SOPAN GOCHHE | Telephone number: Email address: +877 9843429810 Gochhesopan@gmail.com ‘Are you a member of ASCE? What is your | Country of residence: membership number? NEPAL (NPL) | + Yes, Member id: 000012327650 Name of School or University: || Anticipated Graduation Date: HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY 30 MARCH 2023 Have you ever previously applied for funding from the ASCE Foundation? If so, please give relevant details (date, amount requested, etc}, and whether your application was successful ornot. NO Section 2: Event details Event/activity for which financial assistance is sought: 2023 Cl SUMMIT Date, location, and duration of event: March 2-4, 2023| St. Louis, Missouri | 4 DaysStAR Fund Will you be making a technical presentation at the event? Please describe: (300-word limit) Yes, | want to represent my research on topic “impact of Geo-fibre on Load Bearing Capacity”. | had done research and published my journal on ICMIMD conference held on india. | had further enhanced my research regarding durability and affordability. Contributed many more hours on research and development about its impacts, usabiity, scale, affordability and many more. Only 0.5 percent in this world population are currently using this and also among 0.5 percent of the total population around haif percent of it are practising on the wrong way. So, in the even | am presenting how it works, what are its effects, how can we gain such a strong bearing capacity, its requirement and cost. Please comment on how attendance at this event will contribute to your future professional career and development (200-word limit): The research that | had done has took me and my team around more than 2 years. We have done more than 1000 test regarding practicability, strength, cost, durability and many more factors. Very few numbers of research have been carried out on this topic. and among this few too there are ‘numerous wrong practices has been followed so whenever | got the chance to represent my journal ‘not only on my carrier but on entire engineering related with soil are benefited with it. The people who dream to make their home safe sound, the government who want to build the structures on. complicated places, all the engineers get some hope with these and these factors help them to get things done bypassing all those difficulties they used to face applying the methodology from my research. This is my biggest achievement if it happens and seeing my research that has been implemented will gain me much more happiness than who are folowing. This will bring much more mativation and encourages me to do further development where many things we have bypassed. | got the chance to enlighten my country name since my country is very poor on such development and mostly following old practises so. Changing the practises will be the big achievement for me , {or people and for nation. ‘Statement on why you are requesting financial assistance from the ASCE Foundation: (200-word imit) During my research, financial expenses were ¢ bit high than we expected. | haven't got any of financial assistance from anywhere. Despte of it| had managed with a lots of difficulties and many more. | have completed al cf these on my own and completed. | lve in a country where there is a very less information on development and new practises. | want to share my knowledge and skills ‘ona broad way where it requires again much more money and have not found any sponsorship for it too. Country where | live is very poor and the amount that | had to spent for this programme goes, ‘out of pocket. This is my best chance to show the entire world what | had researched and how it changes entire engineering view. So, if| got some financial assistance, it wll be like blessing to our entire team representing our work Section 3: Financial details Please note that applicants are expected to demonstrate cost-sharing and that normally the ASCE Foundation provides only partial financial support of the costs to be incurred. Please indicate how any shortfall in funding could be resolved.StAR Fund Please provide a breakdown of costs including registration foos, travel, accommodations, and incidental expenses for your participation in the event: Please provide a breakdown of cost. We need a final figure in US Dollars. it may be that your costs are initially In different currencies, in which case please give the value and the currency (please see example in red in the table below) Value and | Exchangerate | US Dollars currency ‘Example: Registration 500.00 EUR ii 555,00 Registration Fees 607.8431 1.02 620 EUR ‘Accommodation 1960.784 102 2000 EUR ‘Travel 3921.569 1.02 ‘4000 | EUR oa Visa application 161.7647 1.02 = [me 165 EUR Subsistence 490.1961 1.02, 500 EUR Other costs (please specify) ° 102 ° aa TOTAL | _7142.157 7285 Please provide details of other sources of funding applied for (examples might include host educational institution, employer, ASCE entity, alumni organizations, other trusts or Foundations): | Haven't applied any other sources currently now. Please provide details of othor sources of funding obtained: Did not receive any financial assistancs | Please indicate amount of award sought from the ASCE Foundation: | sooo Eur Section 4: Declaration If my application for an award from the ASCE Foundation is successful, | agree to provide a report of ‘approximately 500 words including images (maximum 2) for inclusion on the ASCE website and in the ‘ASCE Magazine for publicity purposes. This report will be delivered within 6 weeks of the event. atiended. | also agree to acknowledge my successful application for an award in presentations made at the event attended, and to allow my image and testimonial to be used to raise funds for the: Foundation's StAR Fund and further promote the program. The award will be used by me for my Personal expenses as indicated in this application. Name: Sopan Gochhe_ 4] / 1 Signature: % Date: 30 July 2022 Section 5: Statement of support Please ask your faculty advisor, practitioner advisor, or president of your ASCE Institute, Region, Section, or Branch to complete the following section:StAR Fund Your name: ‘Aadarsha Guragain Your organization ‘Sparshia Engineering and Builders Pvt Ltd Your position: CEO x Your relationship to the | Student who comes to do research on my Company. applicant: Your contact details rsha quragain@amailcom (telephone and email) _ See Please provide a statement of support oullining BOTH the valve to your organisation and benefit fo the applicant attending the event specified in Section 2: (200 word timit) He is an energetic person | have ever seen. He hasn't missed any of a day in a yeer. He used to Work on his research on our lab and sites on average of 12 hrs a day and sometimes it geis up to 15-18 hrs a day and he was always thankful towards us despite of we took some lab charges fee, he never denied and was always excited perform on his work. | haven't seen such dedicated person on my life. He wants to change the practises we are following and always tells us he will change the view of engineering. His researches always lead us to profit. We can minimize the cost without risking any issue on quality and standards. His research made good changes on our working practises as we were able to do better with low cost 65 we used to do same for high cost. This event will give him his hard working end dedication value and we receive his effort on new changes to our practises. Has the applicant applied for other funding? Please provide details. He hasn't applied for any kind of funding since during his research he tried 2 lotto find but he was refused. He took loan from bank for this research. | iS your organization able to provide financial assistance? Please provide details. | We can provide assistance on the materials and other factors except financial since we are | constructon company, we have invested our money on project so expect finance we can look his | research materials, lab cost and support him Signature ae Mee 7 August 2022 a