In keeping with The Texas A&M University System's goals, the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Fellows Program was created to recognize outstanding individual research performance and encourage the continued development of exceptional initiatives.
Award Categories
The TEES Fellows Program has two categories of awards:
- TEES Faculty Fellow/Senior Faculty Fellow.
- TEES Young Faculty Fellow.
TEES Faculty Fellows selected for a third year (not necessarily consecutive) earn the designation of TEES Senior Faculty Fellow. This is a permanent designation that carries no explicit monetary award beyond what is described in the “financial” section lower on this page. Please note that senior faculty fellow nominations require a complete nomination packet.
Nominations for TEES Faculty Fellow/Senior Faculty Fellow and TEES Young Faculty Fellow may be made only by engineering department heads or TEES center directors. A committee formed by the vice chancellor of engineering will evaluate the nominations and recommend candidates for approval.
TEES Faculty Fellow and Senior Faculty Fellow awards are reserved for the ranks of professor and associate professor. The main purpose of these awards is to recognize long-term outstanding performance.
The TEES Young Faculty Fellow award is typically reserved for the rank of assistant professor and recognizes outstanding performance of promising new faculty.
Candidates in either category must be nominated each year and compete without regard to previous appointments.
Nomination Guide
To ensure the eligibility of nominees, please see the eligibility requirements page.
Nominees must also meet the following criteria:
- All candidates must be nominated through an engineering department head or a TEES center director.
- A maximum of one nomination may be submitted by each department or TEES center or TEES institute for each category: TEES Faculty Fellow/Senior Faculty Fellow and TEES Young Faculty Fellow.
- Exception: If your department or TEES center or institute has more than 30 tenured/tenure track faculty or TEES research engineers at the beginning of the fall semester, you may submit up to two nominations in each category.
- The nominator should solicit input from departmental personnel, either from a committee or from key advisors.
- Nominees must have an active, funded TEES research program.
- Department heads are not eligible.
- Endowed chair or professorship holders are not eligible.
Selection Considerations
Because the purpose of the Fellows Program is to recognize outstanding performance, the selection criteria encompass several objective measures of performance. These awards are based upon work at Texas A&M University and/or TEES, particularly over the last five years, or less in the case of Young Faculty nominees.
In addition to this, considerations include:
- Evidence of an ongoing and productive research program through TEES.
- Research contracts – types and amounts, including other proposal activity.
- Publications, monographs and textbooks.
- Professional society memberships and service activities.
- Support of other faculty or staff in research contracts.
- Graduate and extension teaching and activity in graduate student training/mentoring.
- Patents, invention disclosures and copyrights.
- Recognition, honors and awards.
Financial
The award is a maximum of $5,000 for program recipients. An account may be established within TEES for use by the awardee. Use of these funds must conform to established TEES fiscal policies, and may be used to travel to technical meetings, for research equipment, for salaries or for any usual research project activity. Alternatively, the awardee may elect to receive the funds as a one-time salary supplement, which is subject to withholding and other normal payroll deductions, including federal taxes, thereby reducing the actual amount received.
Nomination Packet
One electronic copy of each nomination must be submitted. Letters of recommendation are not required and should not be included.
For each nomination packet, please include these items, in this order:
- The nomination form.
- The nominee’s CV (limited to 20 pages).
More Information
For questions regarding these guidelines, please contact Nicole Abinajm at engr-awards@tamu.edu. The number of awards awarded will depend on the availability of funds.
Past Recipients
See past recipients of TEES Faculty Fellow Awards in the categories of TEES Faculty Fellow/Senior Faculty Fellow and TEES Young Faculty Fellow.
TEES Faculty Fellow Recipients
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2022-2023 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Guofei Gu
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Manoranjan Majji
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Mohammad Naraghi
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Svetlana Sukhishvili
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Guofei Gu
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2021-2022 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Emily Pentzer
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Jean C. Ragusa
Department: Nuclear engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Shiren Wang
Department: Industrial and systems engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Emily Pentzer
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2020-2021 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Vladislav Yakovlev
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Choongho Yu
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
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2019-2020 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Diego Donzis
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Huilin Gao
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Ranjana Mehta
Department: Industrial and systems engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Diego Donzis
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2018-2019 Recipients
- Recipient Name: James Caverlee
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Guofei Gu
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Vladislav Yakovlev
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: James Caverlee
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2017-2018 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Tim Davis
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Daniele Mortari
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Xiaoning Qian
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Miladin Radovic
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Tim Davis
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2016-2017 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Jaime Grunlan
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Stefan Hurlebaus
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Arul Jayaraman
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Eric Petersen
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Helen Reed
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Jaime Grunlan
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2015-2016 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Raymundo Arroyave
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Mahmoud El-Halwagi
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Anastasia Muliana
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Victor Ugaz
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: TEES Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Raymundo Arroyave
TEES Senior Faculty Fellow Recipients
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2018-2019 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Lin Shao
Department: Nuclear engineering
Award Name: TEES Senior Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Lin Shao
TEES Young Faculty Fellow Recipients
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2022-2023 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Bobak Mortazavi
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Daniel Selva Valero
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Petros Sideris
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Limei Tian
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Bobak Mortazavi
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2021-2022 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Theodora Chaspari
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Abhishek Jain
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Matt Pharr
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Kelvin Xie
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Theodora Chaspari
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2020-2021 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Farzan Sasangohar
Department: Industrial and systems engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Xiaofeng Qian
Department: Materials science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Katherine Davis
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Farzan Sasangohar
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2019-2020 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Joseph Kwon
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Joseph Kwon
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2018-2019 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Darren Hartl
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Akhilesh Gaharwar
Department: Biomedical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Darren Hartl
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2017-2018 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Moble Benedict
Department: Aerospace engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Jens Figlus
Department: Ocean engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Huilin Gao
Department: Civil and environmental engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Xia (Ben) Hu
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Bruce Tai
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Moble Benedict
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2016-2017 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Micah Green
Department: Chemical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Jeff Huang
Department: Computer science and engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Ryan McClarren
Department: Nuclear engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Xiaoning Qian
Department: Electrical and computer engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Micah Green
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2015-2016 Recipients
- Recipient Name: Michael Moreno
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award - Recipient Name: Partha Mukherjee
Department: Mechanical engineering
Award Name: TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award
- Recipient Name: Michael Moreno