Faculty and Staff Recognition
MechSE Alumni Effective Teaching Awards
Prashant Mehta
Professor
Five-Year Effective Teaching Award
Mike Philpott
Lecturer, Associate Professor Emertius
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 2020 and 2023.
MechSE Staff Award for Exemplary Service
Ruthie Lubkeman
Office Manager
Samridh Singh
Chief Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Programs
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.
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.
All of the nominees this year include:
- Haruka Brown
- Shea Brunson
- Mindy Calcagno
- Patrick Carlin
- Kyle Cheek
- Joe Maduzia
- Sarah Power
- Amy Rumsey
- Rebecca Seymour
- Ranveer Singh
- Tammy Smith
- Robbie Vermillion
- Jaimee Wilson
- Taylor Young
Faculty Awards 2024-25
Craig Bradshaw
- Distinguished Service Award, ASHRAE
Kellie Halloran
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2024
Bumsoo Han
- Named a Biohub Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
Jiajun He
- Engineering Council Outstanding Advisor Award
Naira Hovakimyan
- College Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring
Harley Johnson
- Named Executive Director and CEO of Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, Chicago
Mariana Kersh
- Emerging Leader, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute
- Emerging Leader, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Bill King
- Campus Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentoring
- Elected to ASME Board of Governors
Seid Koric
- Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal, ASME
Callan Luetkemeyer
- Early Career Award, Army Research Office
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Fall 2024
Prashant Mehta
- Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Nenad Miljkovic
- Elected to Editorial Board of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
- Named to the Editorial Board of Electronic Research Archive
Taher Saif
- Named a Biohub Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
Arend van der Zande
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
Pratap Vanka
- Elected Fellow, American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE)
Amy Wagoner Johnson
- 2025 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine, National Academy of Medicine
- Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Named a Biohub Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago
Janelle Wharry
- Brimacombe Award, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
L. Winston Zhang
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Spring 2024