Awarded annually by the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering to an outstanding graduate student who is entering or continuing in an Aerospace Engineering degree program at Carleton University.  Endowed in 2020 by Keppel Bharath to honour his mother.

Winners to date have been:

2020 Missing Recipient Information
2021 M. Zarei Jalalabadi
2022 Mo. Chamberland
2023 R. McKercher
2024 E. Schonfeldt