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2024 Cyclone Engineering faculty and staff award winners, named faculty positions and new patents

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College of Engineering faculty and staff awards

Early Achievement in Academic Advising – Tyler Hoenig, academic advisor in aerospace engineering

Outstanding Achievement in Academic Advising – Seth Loyd, academic advisor in civil, construction and environmental engineering

Early Achievement in Research – Roy Sturgill – assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering

Mid-Career Achievement in Research – Anuj Sharma, Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. Professor in Civil Engineering, research scientist with the Institute for Transportation, and associate director of the Translational AI Center

D.R. Boylan Faculty Award for Research – Eric Cochran, Mary Jane Skogen Hagenson & Randy L. Hagenson Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering

Outstanding Achievement in Teaching – Oleg Zarechnyi, associate teaching professor of aerospace engineering 

Excellence in Foundational Course Teaching – Mohamed Selim, associate teaching professor of electrical and computer engineering

Inclusive Excellence – Cassandra Rutherford, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering

Staff Excellence – Nancy Qvale, operations manager in civil, construction and environmental engineering

Outstanding New Staff – Lynne Dubert, administrative assistant in electrical and computer engineerinf

 

New named faculty positions

Wayne Chen – Vance and Arlene Coffman Departmental Chair in Aerospace Engineering

Caroline Hayes – John and Nancy Hayes Department Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Goce Trajcevski, professor of electrical and computer engineering – Northrop Grumman Professorship in honor of Fred W. O’Green

Hongwei Zhang – Willard & Leitha Richardson Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Sly, teaching professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering –Zinnov Engineering Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellowship

Rizia Bardhan – Jean H. Steffenson Professorship in Chemical and Biological Engineering

Ratul Chowdhury, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering – Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering

Sougata Roy, assistant professor of mechanical engineering – Building a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering

Jonathan Wood, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineeringBuilding a World of Difference Faculty Fellow in Engineering

Shana Moothedath, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering – Harpole-Pentair Developing Faculty Award

 

Patent recipients

Halil Ceylan and Peter Taylor: Electrically Conductive Concrete Composition and System Design for Resistive Heating of Pavements with Low Volume Fractions of Carbon Microfiber

Timothy Bigelow: Agricultural Plant Detection and Control System

Eric Cochran, Nacu Hernandez, and Chris Williams:

  • Ground Tire Rubber Density Using Elastomeric Polymers
  • Ground Tire Rubber Density Modification Using Elastomeric Polymers
  • Rejuvenation of Vacuum Tower Bottoms through Bio-Derived Materials

Eric Cochran, Nacu Hernandez, Chris Williams, and Michael Forrester: Biosolvents Useful for Improved Asphalt Products Utilizing Recycled Asphalt Pavement or Other Brittle Asphalt Binders such as Vacuum Tower Bottom

Eric Cochran, Nacu Hernandez, and Michael Forrester: Acrylated and Acylated or Acetalized Polyol as a Biobased Substitute for Hard, Rigid Thermoplastic and Thermoset Materials

Eric Cochran, Nacu Hernandez, and Jean-Philippe Tessonnier: Bioadvantaged Nylon: Polycondensation of 3-Hexendioic Acid with Hexmethylendiamine

Xianglan Bai and Eric Cochran: Thermoplastic Polymers Synthesized from Depolymerized Lignin Via Free Radical Polymerization

Iver Anderson:

  • Power Satellite-Reduction Apparatus and Method for Gas Atomization Process
  • Passivation and Alloying Element Retention in Gas Atomized Powders

Ronald Roberts: Microtexture Region Characterization Systems and Methods

Derrick Rollins: Feedback Predictive Control Approach for Processes with Time Delay in the Manipulated Variable

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian: Concentration Enrichment, Separation and Cation Exchange in Water-in-Oil Droplets

Surya Mallapragada:

  • Methods, Apparatus, and Systems for Fabricating Solution-Based Conductive 2D and 3D Electronic Circuits
  • Fabrication of High-Resolution Graphene-Based Flexible Electronics via Polymer Casting

Boyce Chang: Textured Particles

Long Que: Contact Lens Including Nanopores

Meng Lu: Temperature Sensors

Wenzhen Li: System and Method for Removing Nitrate from Water

Jonathan Claussen: Enhanced 3D Porous Architectured Electroactive Devices via Impregnated Porogens

Matthew Darr: Agricultural Sprayer Active Boom Center Frame Positioning System

Sri Sritharan: Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Bond Anchor

Nicole Hashemi and Reza Montazami: Conductive Graphene Matrix-Encapsulated Cells

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