College of Engineering faculty and staff awards
D.R. Boylan Eminent Award for Research
Venkataramana Ajjarapu, Thomas M. Whitney Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mid-Career Achievement in Research
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Richard C. Seagrave Professor, chemical and biological engineering
Early Achievement in Research
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow and associate professor of aerospace engineering
Zhaoyu Wang, Harpole-Pentair Young Faculty, electrical and computer engineering
Outstanding Achievement in Teaching
Jay Shen, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering
Excellence in Foundational Course Teaching
Marlee Walton, associate teaching professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering
Early Achievement in Teaching – Tenure Track
Shan Jiang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering
Early Achievement in Teaching – Term
Andrew Bolstad, adjunct assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering
Excellence in Extension and/or Outreach
Doug Jacobson, University Professor of electrical and computer engineering
Outstanding Achievement in Advising
Jenny Baker, associate teaching professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering
Early Achievement in Advising
Emily Swartz, academic advisor, civil, construction and environmental engineering
Staff Excellence
Cheryl Sansgaard, business administrator, Engineering Research Institute
Outstanding New Staff
Kimberly McFarland, program assistant, mechanical engineering
Miho Walczak, grants specialist, Engineering Research Institute
New named faculty positions
Black & Veatch Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellowship in Engineering – Luke Roling, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, Cristina Poleacovschi, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sarah Bentil, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Established by Black & Veatch in honor of Len (’71 BS Civil Engineering) and Julie (’71 BS Home Economics Education) Rodman
Cargill Professorship in Chemical Engineering – Laura Jarboe, professor of chemical and biological engineering. Established by Cargill
Cerwick Faculty Professorship – Chris Rehmann, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Established by Joel (‘66 BS and ’68 MS Civil Engineering) and Judy Cerwick
Cerwick Faculty Fellowship – Kaoru Ikuma, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, Behrouz Shafei, Alice Alipour, and Omar Smadi, all associate professors of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Established by Joel (‘66 BS and ’68 MS Civil Engineering) and Judy Cerwick
Vikram L. Dalal Professorship – Liang Dong, professor of of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Vik Dalal
Engineering Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellowship – Matt Nelson, assistant teaching professor of aerospace engineering, Steve Bell, associate teaching professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, Nigel Reuel, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, Anuj Sharma, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering, Suraj Kothari, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Gary Mirka, University Professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, Peter Collins, professor of materials science and engineering, and Cary Pint, associate professor of mechanical engineering. Established by the College of Engineering
Vernon Guse Faculty Fellowship – Zengyi Shao, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering. Established through the Vernon Guse (’34 Chemical Engineering) Fund in Chemical Engineering
Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson & Randy L. Hagenson Professorship in Chemical & Biological Engineering – Eric Cochran, professor of chemical and biological engineering. Established by Mary Jane (’74 BS Physics, ’76 MS ’80 PhD Biomedical Engineering) and Randy (’72 BS Electrical, ’73 MS and ’78 PhD Nuclear Engineering) Hagenson
Murray J. and Ruth M. Harpole Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Manimaran Govindarasu, Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Murray (’43 BS Electrical Engineering) and Ruth (2016 Honorary Degree) Harpole
Harpole-Pentair Developing Faculty Award – Goce Tracevski, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, Henry Duwe, Hugo Villegas-Pico, and Mai Zheng, all assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Murray (’43 BS Electrical Engineering) and Ruth (2016 Honorary Degree) Harpole
Thomas D. McGee & Ick-Jhin Rick Yoon Department Chair in Materials Science & Engineering – Chris Cornelius, department chair of materials science and engineering. Established by Ick-Jhin Rick (’72 BS and ’77 PhD Ceramic Engineering) and Sandy Yoon
Ross Martin Mehl and Marylyne Munas Mehl Computer Engineering Professorship – Joseph Zambreno, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Ross and Marylyne Munas Mehl
David C. Nicholas Professorship – Julie Dickerson, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Established in honor of David C. Nicholas (’67 BS, ’68 MS and ’71 PhD Electrical Engineering)
Northrup Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green – Zhaoyu Wang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Northrup Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green (’43 Electrical Engineering)
Palmer Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Ratnesh Kumar, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Barbara Palmer (1946 BS Household Equipment) in honor of her late husband, James Palmer (1944 BS Electrical Engineering)
Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. Professorship in Civil Engineering – Halil Ceylan, professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Established by Pitt-Des Moines Inc.
Willard & Leitha Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Ahmed Kamal, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Willard (’34 Electrical Engineering) & Leitha Richardson
Richard G. Schultze and Suzanne M. Schultze Teaching Fellowship – Jenny Baker and Brad Perkins, both teaching professors of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Established by Rick (’82 Construction Engineering) and Suzanne Schultze
Richard C. Seagrave Professorship – Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering. Established by former students and friends in honor of Dick Seagrave (’59 MS and ’61 PhD Chemical Engineering)
Herbert L. Stiles Faculty Fellowships in Chemical Engineering – Wenzhen Li, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering. Established by Herbert (’29 Chemical Engineering) and Louise Stiles
Thomas M. Whitney Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Venkataramana Ajjarapu, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Established by Donna Whitney in honor of Tom Whitney (’61 BS Electrical Engineering)
Wilkinson Chair in Materials Science and Engineering – Chris Cornelius, department chair of materials science and engineering. Established through the Wilkinson Engineering Fund, which was established by Carla Wilkinson in honor of her husband, Roger Wilkinson (’24 Electrical Engineering)
Wilkinson Professorship in Interdisciplinary Engineering – Gül Kremer, professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering. Established through the Wilkinson Engineering Fund, which was established by Carla Wilkinson in honor of her husband, Roger Wilkinson (’24 Electrical Engineering)
Patent recipients
R. Chris Williams, Gerald and Audrey Olson Professorship in Civil Engineering, Eric Cochran, Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson & Randy L. Hagenson Professor in Chemical & Biological Engineering, Michael Forrester, research scientist, chemical and biological engineering, and Nacu Hernandez, scientist, chemical and biological engineering, Poly(acrylated polyol) and Method for Making and Using Thereof as Asphalt Rubber Modifiers, Adhesive, Fracking Additives, or Fracking Fluids
R. Chris Williams, Gerald and Audrey Olson Professorship in Civil Engineering, Eric Cochran, Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson & Randy L. Hagenson Professor in Chemical & Biological Engineering, Nacu Hernandez, research scientist, chemical and biological engineering, Thermoplastic Elastomers via Reversible Addition-fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization of Triglycerides and Rejuvenation of Vacuum Tower Bottom Through Bio-derived Materials
Austin Hohmann, engineer, chemical and biological engineering, Eric Cochran, Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson & Randy L. Hagenson Professor in Chemical & Biological Engineering, Michael Forrester, research scientist, chemical and biological engineering, and Nacu Hernandez, research scientist, chemical and biological engineering, Thiocarbonylthio Compounds as Chain Transfer Agents Suitable for Raft Polymerization
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Richard C. Seagrave Professor, Eric Cochran, Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson & Randy L. Hagenson Professor in Chemical & Biological Engineering, Nacu Hernandez, research scientist, chemical and biological engineering, Bioadvantaged Nylon: Polycondensation of 3-Hexenedioic Acid with Hexamethylenediamine
Yue Wu, professor of chemical and biological engineering, Two Dimensional Metal Carbide Catalyst
Derrick Rollins, University Professor of chemical and biological engineering, Automatic Insulin Delivery System With Minimized Input Variable Lag
Martin Thuo, associate professor of materials science and engineering, Mechano-chemical De-mixing of Metal Alloys and Mixed Materials and Self-strengthening Polymer Composites
Robert Brown, Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass in an Autothermally Operating Reactor
Liang Dong, Vikram L. Dalal Professors/Northrop Grumman Professor in honor of Fred W. O’Green, and Ratnesh Kumar, Palmer Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Integrated Dual-Modality Microfluidic Sensor For Biomarker Detection Using Lithographic PlasmonicCrystal and Nano-Patterning Methods Including: (1) Patterning Of Nanophotonic Structures At Optical Fiber Tip For Refractive Index Sensing And (2) Plasmonic Crystal Incorporating Graphene Oxide Gas Sensor For Detection Of Volatile Organic Compounds
Liang Dong, Vikram L. Dalal Professors/Northrop Grumman Professor in honor of Fred W. O’Green, and Jiming Song, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Wearable Microwave Meta-Skin with Tunable Frequency Selective and Cloaking Effects
Liang Dong, Vikram L. Dalal Professors/Northrop Grumman Professor in honor of Fred W. O’Green, High Sensitivity Mems Pressure Sensor, Miniature Sensors With Probe Insertable Into And For Obtaining Measurements From Plants And A Variety Of Other Mediums, and High-Resolution Patterning And Transferring Of Functional Nanomaterials Toward Massive Production Of Flexible, Conformal, And Wearable Sensors Of Many Kinds On Adhesive Tapes
Thomas Chiou, professor of practice, aerospace engineering, Soil Nitrate Sensing System for Precision Management of Nitrogen Fertilizer Applications
Balaji Narasimhan, Vlasta Klima Balloun Faculty Chair, chemical and biological engineering, Influenza Nanovaccine
Santosh Pandey, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Lee Harker, electronics technician, electrical and computer engineering, Methods, Apparatus, and Systems to Extract and Quantify Minute Objects from Soil or Feces, Including Plant-Parasitic Nematode Pests and their Eggs in Soil
Iver Anderson, adjunct professor of materials science and engineering and scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, Stability of Gas Atomized Reactive Powders Through Multiple Step In-situ Passivation, Atomizer for Improved Ultra-fine Powder Production, and Solid State Grain Alignment of Permanent Magnets in Near-final Shape
Daji Qiao and Long Que, both associate professors of electrical and computer engineering, Smart Installation And Monitoring System For Large Anchor Bolts Of Support Structures For Highway Signs, Luminaries, And Traffic Signals (SLTS)
Jonathan Claussen, associate professor of mechanical engineering, High Resolution Graphene Films for Electrochemical Sensing Via Inkjet Maskless Lithography and Tunable Nano-structured Inkjet Printed Graphene Via UV Pulsed-laser Irradiation for Electrochemical Sensing
Ikenna Nlebedim, adjunct professor of materials science and engineering and scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, High Command Fidelity Electromagnetically Driven Calorimeter
Zengyi Shao, Vernon Guse Faculty Fellow, chemical and biological engineering, Methods and Compositions for Production of Aromatic and Other Compounds in Yeast
Steve Martin, Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering, Oxy-Thio-Nitride Mixed Network Former Solid Electrolytes
Nigel Reuel, Engineering Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, Optical Nanosensorsfor Hydrolytic Enzyme Characterization
Shan Jiang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, UV-Absorbing Coating Including Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles
Travis Sippel, associate professor of mechanical engineering, and James Michael, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, Microwave Flame Enhancement of Energetic Material Combustion