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Faculty and Staff Recognition

MechSE Alumni Effective Teaching Awards

Prashant Mehta

Prashant Mehta

Professor

Five-Year Effective Teaching Award

Mike Philpott

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 Lubekman

Ruthie Lubkeman

Office Manager

Samridh Singh

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

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