DOSS stands for the Dutch Open Student STEEL (DOSS) Award: an annual international prize, initiated by the Technical University Delft and the Dutch Steel Construction Institute Bouwen met Staal and supported by various acknowledged organisations, educational institutions, and design-, build and steel production companies worldwide.

WHAT’S DOSS?

DOSS stands for the Dutch Open Student STEEL (DOSS) Award: an annual international prize, initiated by the Technical University Delft and the Dutch Steel Construction Institute Bouwen met Staal and supported by various acknowledged organisations, educational institutions, and design-, build and steel production companies worldwide.

The award works out as an epochal appreciation and recognition of MSC students in civil engineering at (technical) universities from all the world, who have incorporated in a distinctive and representative way the features, possibilities, and benefits of steel for structural application in their graduation projects. Meanwhile the award also challenges and encourages next generations of graduation students to do so in the future. Thus, making their contribution to the ongoing upgrading of the usage of steel for civil structures in worldwide practice; making it (even)more aesthetic, reliable, economic, smart, long lived, and green.
That’s in it for us all.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

The DOSS Award might just be your ‘claim to fame’ in the world of civil engineering. Just by taking part with your thesis, you’ll be winning the full attention of a broad collective of respected expert professionals, gathered in the international DOSS Award jury.

When receiving a nomination for the prize, you can present and discuss your project during the GRAND DOSS FINAL, a public venue with live stream, held in April and attended by all those that matter within the international steel building industry. At this event the winner(s) will be announced.

First prize winner(s) will be rewarded with 2.500 Euro, second prize winners with (of course) half of it: 1.250 Euro.

Winners 2023

First jury winner: Filip Wrzosek
Winner
First jury winner: Filip Wrzosek
TU Delft
Civil Engineering
Finite Element Modelling of a transmission steel lattice tower based on LiDAR point cloud data
Second jury winner: Yasser Nasr Ibrahim Mostafa Saleh
Winner
Second jury winner: Yasser Nasr Ibrahim Mostafa Saleh
Cairo University
Structural Engineering
Assessment of cyclic behavior of frame corner connections fabricated from steel cold-formed sections
Second jury winners: Alaa Achour & Ziad MlliSecond jury winners: Alaa Achour & Ziad Mlli
Winner
Second jury winners: Alaa Achour & Ziad Mlli
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (S)
Architecture and Civil Engineering
Flange Buckling Behavior of Stainless Steel Girders with Trapezoidally Corrugated Webs - A parametric numerical study
Audience winner: Massimino Gnazzo
Winner
Audience winner: Massimino Gnazzo
University of Naples Federico II
Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture
Design optimization of high-rise buildings equipped with Shear Link Bozzo (SLB) devices using the PBSD approach

Nominees 2023

Zexu Shao
Nominee
Zexu Shao
Imperial College London
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Design of steel trusses by GMNIA with CSM strain limits
Laura-Catrina Neugebauer
Nominee
Laura-Catrina Neugebauer
University of Stuttgart
Institute of Structural Design
Reliability of bolted steel connections in Germany

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Participation in the DOSS Award is possible for graduation projects that incorporate a key role for steel. The project can be in the field of structural design, engineering as well as research and (product)development or combinations.

The jury measures all projects on the issues:
objectives and ambitions • originality and aesthetics • creativity and ingenuity • thoroughness • context • relevance for civil engineering knowledge and practice • (smart) application and performance.
The jury pays special notice to projects that trigger the innovative and sustainable application of steel in civil structures.

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Winners DOSS Award 2023 announced
At a well attended online ceremony, last Monday 24th April, the winners of the DOSS Award 2023 have been proclaimed. Out of 25 submissions for this year’s edition of the international prize for graduation work of master students in civil engineering, the expert jury appointed Filip Wrzosek (TU Delft, Civil Engineering) first prize winner. He […]
Six finalists DOSS Award 2023
Out of no less than 25 entrees the DOSS Award jury has selected six projects as nominees for the DOSS Award 2023. The winner will be announced at the online DOSS Award 2023 Final Ceremony, Monday 23 April 2023. A program of the event will be published shortly. All 25 projects, participating in this years’ […]
In Dutch, this time
For an international prize like the DOSS Award, English is of course the obvious interlanguage. Considering their reading audience (mostly native Dutch), the editors of the Dutch technical magazine ‘Bouwen met Staal’ logically choose otherwise. They published an informative article – in Dutch – about the 2022-edition of the prize, including descriptions of all six […]

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