The annual College of Engineering Awards Banquet sponsored by Tau Beta Pi took place April 17, 2018 at the Hilary J. Boone Center. Representative Sannie Overly, a 1989 civil engineering graduate from the University of Kentucky, gave the keynote address. The awards, arranged by department, are below.

College of Engineering Awards

Engineering Alumni Association Senior Leadership Award: Sydney Norman

Lou Takacs Engineering Co-op Award: Alison Crupper, David Oswalt

Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education: Jeffrey Seay

  

Tau Beta Pi Awards

Most Outstanding Senior: Sydney Norman

Most Outstanding Graduate Student: Jack White

Most Outstanding Staff: Ilka Balk

Most Outstanding Professor: Suzanne W. Smith

Dr. Bruce L. Walcott Tau Beta Pi Most Outstanding Service Award: Isabel Escobar

  

F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Teacher: Sridhar Sunderam

Outstanding Graduate Student (Masters): Nicholas Kohrs

Outstanding Graduate Student (Doctoral): Ahmed Bahrani

  

Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Frank Woeste Award: Eric Vanzant

Outstanding Junior: Eric Vanzant

Outstanding Senior: Amanda Williams

Outstanding Teacher: Alicia Modenbach

Outstanding Experiential Learning: Kourtnie Ruber

  

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

AIChE Outstanding Senior Member: Will Davis

Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Student: Lauren Mehanna

Outstanding Chemical Engineering Junior Award: Hannah Dvorak (Honorable Mentions: Monica Alden, Rebeckah Fairchild, Thomas Ostertag, Brad Wilson)

Outstanding Chemical Engineering Senior Award: Abby Munsterman (Honorable Mentions: Ryan Blood, Robert Brooks, Katherine Ruwe, Luke Wesley)

Outstanding Chemical Engineering Graduate Student: Angela Gutierrez, Carolyn Jordan

Outstanding Chemical Engineering Teacher Award: Sarah Wilson

Outstanding Materials Engineering Junior Award: Nick Telesz

Outstanding Materials Engineering Senior Award: Matthew Hollinden

Outstanding MSE Graduate Students: Tyler Maxwell; Xiaowen Zhan

Outstanding Materials Engineering Teacher Award: John Balk

  

Department of Civil Engineering

Outstanding Junior: Stephen Day

Outstanding Senior: Freddy Lause

Outstanding Graduate Student: Travis Watts

Outstanding Faculty: Gabriel Dadi

  

Department of Computer Science

Outstanding Academic Performance: Logan Hickey, Aaron Mueller, Tristan Basil, Dillon Pulliam

Outstanding MS Student: Jeevith Bopaiah

Outstanding PhD Student: Ye Yu

Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Md. Tariqul Islam

Outstanding Graduating Senior: Sydney Norman

Outstanding Teacher: Mirek Truszczynski

Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship: Xinxin Zuo

  

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alex Romanowitz Memorial Award: Luke Wormald

Robert L. Cosgriff Award: Elizabeth Foster

Outstanding Computer Engineering Junior: Daniel Dopp

Outstanding Computer Engineering Senior: Stephanie McCormick

Outstanding Electrical Engineering Junior: Tanner Shepherd

Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior: Cole Richardson

Outstanding Teacher in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Aaron Cramer

  

Department of Mechanical Engineering

ASME Bluegrass Section Outstanding Scholars: Virginia Smith; Zachary Oakes; Gabriel Myers; Adam Claus; William Sanders, IV; Chih-Hsuan Hung; John Higgins

J.W. May Achievement Award: Sarah Cox

Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Sophomore: Jack Riordan

Outstanding Junior: Mfon-Abasi Itama

Outstanding Senior: Gabriel Myers

Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Yangyang Wu

Outstanding Master’s Student: Devin Sparks

Outstanding Doctoral Student: Stephen Grib

ASME Outstanding Faculty: Christine Goble

  

Department of Mining Engineering

Outstanding Junior: Timothy Watkins

Outstanding Senior: Chandler Absher

Academic Excellence Award: Trevor Rosania, Chandler Absher

Junior Academic Achievement Award: Sarah Fay

Outstanding Faculty: Jack Groppo