MechSE Alumni Awards
MechSE Distinguished Alumni Awards
Frank A. Sanders
BSME 1990
Corporate Vice President & General Manager of Global Supply Chain Operations, Intel
Kendra Sharp
BSME 1993, PhD TAM 2001
Dean, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University
The MechSE Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes our alumni who have established careers and have served in a professional and technical capacity to honor the department and the university. To date, nearly 200 of our deserving alumni have received this award. Any individual with a degree in Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, or Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois, who is not a current MechSE faculty member or alumni board member, is eligible for nomination.
MechSE Outstanding Young Alumni Awards
Jin Tae Jimmy Kim
PhD TAM 2020
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Hamid Jafarnejad Sani
PhD ME 2018
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Kenny Swartz
BSME 2014 (Bronze Tablet), MSME 2016, PhD ME 2021
Computational Optimization Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The MechSE Outstanding Young Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have graduated from the department fewer than 10 years ago and who have embodied the department and university’s values in their professional careers.