ACEC California Scholarships
Every year, the ACEC California Scholarship Foundation seeks the best and brightest engineering and land surveying students in California and awards scholarships to them. Over the years, ACEC California has awarded over $800,000 in cash grants to hundreds of outstanding students, and awarded over $80,000 in 2025-26!
For information regarding the ACEC California Scholarship Program, visit www.acec-ca.org/scholarshipapp or contact Janae Breslin, jbreslin@acec-ca.org.
2026-27 Scholarship Applications due by 9pm PST March 13, 2026.
ACEC San Diego Chapter/City of San Diego Engineering & Capital Projects Scholarships
Attached is the information for this year’s Local Scholarship Opportunities.
The deadline to apply is March 30, 2026.
Each year the San Diego Chapter of ACEC California partners with the City of San Diego Engineering and Capital Projects Department to sponsor scholarships to benefit local engineering students at the high school and college levels.
Committed to creating opportunities for students who have demonstrated a high level of interest and commitment to the engineering profession, the ACEC California San Diego Chapter and the City of San Diego E&CP Department also sponsor an ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT as a fundraising activity to provide ongoing financial assistance to help noteworthy engineering students succeed in San Diego.
High School
Kathryn Mokhov – Patrick Henry High School to UCSD
Katherine Avila – Herbert Hoover High School to SDSU
Sador Rusom – The O’Farrell Charter High School
Julie Saad – Westview High School to Miramar College
College
Justin Gip – San Diego State University
Landyn Neil – San Diego State University
Brent Isidro – San Diego State University
Dominic Tran – University of California San Diego
David Jazo – San Diego State University
Kate Flaherty – University of San Diego
Justin Gip
To study civil engineering at the San Diego State University during the 2025-2026 academic year
Alexandra Kersting
To study structural engineering at the University of California, San Diego during the 2025-2026 academic year