In 2015 the Dean of Engineering Excellence Awards were established to recognize outstanding faculty at all three ranks: assistant professor, associate professor and full professor. These awards recognize the faculty members who excel in all three major pillars of academia: teaching, research and service/engagement.
The awards for each rank will include a monetary reward and plaque. Honorees and their guests will be invited to the spring College Honors and Awards ceremony.
Nomination Guide
To ensure the eligibility of nominees, please see the eligibility requirements page.
Departments with more than 30 tenure-track faculty are allowed to nominate two faculty members in each category, and the rest are allowed to nominate one per category. At the full professor level, faculty with endowed positions are not eligible for the award.
Nomination Package
The nomination package for each nominee should include:
- The nomination form.
- The nominee’s CV (limited to 20 pages).
Past Recipients
See past Dean of Engineering Excellence Awards recipients in the categories of: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor.
Assistant Professor Recipients
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2022-2023 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Jeyavijayan Rajendran
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Alex Walsh
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Jeyavijayan Rajendran
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2021-2022 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Sara Abedi
Department: Petroleum engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Theodora Chaspari
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Sara Abedi
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2020-2021 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Abhishek Jain
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Manoranjan Majji
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Abhishek Jain
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2019-2020 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Daniel Alge
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Ali Mostafavi
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Daniel Alge
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2018-2019 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Alaa Elwany
Department: Industrial and systems engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Xia “Ben” Hu
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Alaa Elwany
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2017-2018 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Akhilesh Gaharwar
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Darren Hartl
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Yang Shen
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Akhilesh Gaharwar
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2016-2017 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Douglas Allaire
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Moble Benedict
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Partha Mukherjee
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Douglas Allaire
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2015-2016 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Gretchen Miller
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor - Recipient Name: Michael Moreno
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Assistant Professor
- Recipient Name: Gretchen Miller
Associate Professor Recipients
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2022-2023 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Ali Mostafavi
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor - Recipient Name: Ankit Srivastava
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Ali Mostafavi
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2021-2022 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Moble Benedict
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor - Recipient Name: Huilin Gao
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Moble Benedict
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2020-2021 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Homero Castaneda
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor - Recipient Name: Diego Donzis
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Homero Castaneda
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2019-2020 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Akhilesh Gaharwar
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Akhilesh Gaharwar
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2018-2019 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Hae-Kwon Jeong
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Hae-Kwon Jeong
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2017-2018 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Michael Demkowicz
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor - Recipient Name: Eduardo Gildin
Department: Petroleum engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Guofei Gu
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor - Recipient Name: Gregory Huff
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Michael Demkowicz
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2016-2017 Recipients
- Recipient Name: James Caverlee
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor - Recipient Name: Melissa Grunlan
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: James Caverlee
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2015-2016 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor - Recipient Name: Arum Han
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Associate Professor
- Recipient Name: Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
Professor Recipients
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2022-2023 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Karen Kirkland
Department: Nuclear engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor - Recipient Name: Miladin Radovic
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Karen Kirkland
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2021-2022 Recipients
- Recipient Name: David Claridge
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor - Recipient Name: Svetlana Sukhishvili
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: David Claridge
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2020-2021 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Roozbeh Jafari
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor - Recipient Name: Le Xie
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Roozbeh Jafari
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2019-2020 Recipients
- Recipient Name: James Caverlee
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor - Recipient Name: John Hurtado
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: James Caverlee
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2018-2019 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Eric Petersen
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Eric Petersen
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2017-2018 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Debjyoti Banerjee
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Zhengdong Cheng
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Frank Shipman
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Alex Sprintson
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Vladislav Yakovlev
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Debjyoti Banerjee
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2016-2017 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Tim Davis
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Moo-Hyun Kim
Department: Ocean engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Tim Davis
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2015-2016 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Rosana Moreira
Department: Biological and agricultural engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor - Recipient Name: Mark Holtzapple
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: Dean of Engineering Excellence Award - Professor
- Recipient Name: Rosana Moreira