Faculty and Staff Recognition
MechSE Alumni Effective Teaching Awards
Sanjiv Sinha
Five-Year Effective Teaching Award
Elizabeth Hsiao-Wecksler
Two-Year Effective Teaching Award
For more than 40 years, the MechSE Alumni Board has sponsored two Alumni Effective Teaching Awards. The awards were established so that alumni two and five years into their professional careers have the opportunity to honor faculty whose teaching they now perceive as having had the greatest impact on their careers. Our former students vote to recognize truly outstanding teaching in the department - this year, the classes of 2019 and 2022.
MechSE Staff Award for Exemplary Service
Stephanie Ott-Monsivais
Susan Roughton
This honor is given annually to staff members for their contributions to the department and their outstanding service to faculty, students, and colleagues. Nominations are solicited and submitted by MechSE faculty, staff and students.
Faculty Awards 2023-24
Nikhil Admal
- NSF CAREER Award
Gaurav Bahl
- Named the George B. Grim Professor
Lili Cai
- SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigators Program award
Randy Ewoldt
- Named the Alexander Rankin Professor
- Engineering Council Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence
- Appointed to 2024-26 cohort of U.S. Defense Science Study Group
Mattia Gazzola
- Named a Charles Conrad Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Naira Hovakimyan
- ASME Fellow
- Grainger College of Engineering Excellence in Translational Research
Iwona Jasiuk
- Named a Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Bill King
- Grainger College of Engineering Excellence in Faculty Mentoring
- ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award
- Elected to the ASME Board of Governors
Katie Matlack
- ASME C.D. Mote Jr., Early Career Award
- Named a Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Prashant Mehta
- IEEE Fellow
Nenad Miljkovic
- Named the Founder Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering
- R&D Magazine Top 100 Innovation
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
- Elected as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
Taher Saif
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Huseyin Sehitoglu
- Campus Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring
- International Congress on Fracture, Paul C. Paris Gold Medal
- Selected to Acta Materialia Board of Governors
Kyle Smith
- Grainger College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Early Innovation for Associate Professor
Sameh Tawfick
- Named a Ralph A. Andersen Faculty Scholar