Honors & Awards Committee

The Honors & Awards Committee is tasked with evaluating nomination packages and identifying candidates for honors and awards at the College of Engineering level. Members of the committee serve a two-year term, and approximately half of the committee members rotate out each year.

Committee Members

Aerospace engineering (2023–2025)

Amine Benzerga

Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
General Dynamics Professor in Aerospace Engineering
Director, Center for Intelligent Materials and Structures (CiMMS)

Office: HRBB 520B
Phone: 979-845-1602
Email: benzerga@tamu.edu

Biomedical engineering (2023-2025)

Wonmuk Hwang

Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering and Physics & Astronomy

Office: ETB 5060
Phone: 979-458-0178
Email: hwm@tamu.edu

Chemical engineering (2023–2025)

Hae-Kwon Jeong

Professor, Chemical Engineering
McFerrin Professor

Office: CHEN 233
Phone: 979-862-4850
Email: hjeong7@tamu.edu

Computer science and engineering (2023–2025)

Andreas Klappenecker

Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Office: PETR 418
Phone: 979-458-0608
Email: klappi@cse.tamu.edu

Civil and environmental engineering (2022-2024)

Shankar Chellam

Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
A.P. & Florence Wiley Professor III

Office: DLEB 402E
Phone: 979-458-5914
Email: chellam@tamu.edu

Engineering Academic and Student Affairs (2022-2024)

Dr. Tanya Wickliff

Professor of Practice

Office: ZACH 400F
Phone: 713-458-9812
Email: tdwickliff@tamu.edu

Electrical and computer engineering (2022-2024)

Steven M. Wright

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor II
Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering

Office: WEB 310D
Phone: 979-845-9413
Email: smwright@tamu.edu

Engineering technology and industrial distribution (2023-2025)

Willy Bolander

Professor, Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution,
Industrial Distribution,
Holder of the Rader II Professorship

Office: FERM 205C
Phone: 979-458-7038
Email: wcbolander@tamu.edu

Industrial and systems engineering (2022-2024)

Farzan Sasangohar

Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Mike and Sugar Barnes Faculty Fellow, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Assistant Professor, Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist Hospital
Department of Surgery, Institute for Academic Medicine (IAM), Houston Methodist Hospital
Affiliated Faculty, Environmental and Occupational Health
Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Fellow, Center for Remote Health Technologies & Systems
Faculty Fellow, Center for Health Systems & Design
Faculty Fellow, NSF Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT)

Office: ETB 4079
Phone: 979-458-2337
Email: sasangohar@tamu.edu