M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor and dean of engineering and director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), recognized Faculty and Staff Award winners during the 2016 Faculty and Staff Awards banquet.
Banks presented Faculty Awards, Staff Excellence Awards, a New Employee Award, a Key Contributor Award and the Engineering Team Award.
Staff Awards
Key Contributor Award — Ninette Portales (Engineering Human Resources)
New Employee Award — Shraddha Sankhe (Engineering Communications)
Staff Excellence Award — Carol Broach (Engineering Academic and Student Affairs); Joshua Cook (Texas Center for Applied Technology); Sarah Curylo (Civil Engineering); Barbara Mendoza (Engineering Communications); Kaitlin Nichols (Business Services Biomedical Engineering); Brooke Schneider (National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing); Carolyn Warzon (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Engineering Team Award — TEES Fiscal BAM Implementation Team (Dana Ethridge; Mary Williams; Tiphany Bode; Gina Gressett; Karen Gregory; Lynn Krueger)
Faculty Awards
College of Engineering Teaching Awards
Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award — Dr. Mary Preston McDougall (Biomedical Engineering)
Eugene Webb Faculty Teaching Award — Dr. Robert Randall (Ocean Engineering)
William Keeler Memorial Fund Teaching Award — Dr. S.P. Bhattacharyya (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Dr. H. Gene Hawkins, Jr. (Civil Engineering)
George Armistead, Jr. ’23 Faculty Excellence Teaching Award — Dr. Paval Tsvetkov (Nuclear Engineering)
Instructional Faculty Teaching Award — Dr. Peter England (Civil Engineering); Dr. John Haglund (Mechanical Engineering); Dr. Matilda McVay (Mechanical Engineering); Dr. Amanda Wood (Ocean Engineering)
Association of Former Students College-Level Distinguished Teaching Award — Dr. Melissa Grunlan (Biomedical Engineering); Dr. H. Gene Hawkins, Jr. (Civil Engineering); Dr. Dmitri Loguinov (Computer Science and Engineering); Dr. Erick Moreno-Centeno (Industrial and Systems Engineering)
College of Engineering Service Awards
Charles W. Crawford Distinguished Service Award — Dr. Jerald Caton (Mechanical Engineering)
Eugene Webb Faculty Service Award — Dr. John Criscione (Biomedical Engineering); Dr. Jay Porter (Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution)
College of Engineering Contribution Awards
Barbara and Ralph Cox ’53 Faculty Award for Contributions — Dr. Satish Bukkapatnam (Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Charles H. Barclay, Jr ’45 Award for Contributions — Dr. Sergio Capareda (Biological and Agricultural Engineering)
Williams Brothers Construction Engineering Award for Contributions — Dr. Stefan Hurlebaus (Civil Engineering)
William O. & Montine P. Head Memorial Research Fund for Contributions — Dr. Alex Sprintson (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
College of Engineering Faculty Fellows
William Keeler Faculty Fellow— Dr. Rusty Harris (Electrical and Computer Engineering); Dr. Anastasia Muliana (Mechanical Engineering)
Herbert H. Richardson Faculty Fellow — Dr. Lin Shao (Nuclear Engineering)
William O. and Montine P. Head Faculty Fellow — Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus (Chemical Engineering); Dr. Choongho Yu (Mechanical Engineering)
TEES Fellow Awards
TEES Center Fellows — Dr. Keith Biggers (Texas Center for Applied Technology); Dr. Dean Schneider (Texas Center for Applied Technology)
TEES Young Faculty Fellows — Dr. Michael Moreno (Mechanical Engineering); Dr. Partha Mukherjee (Mechanical Engineering)
TEES Faculty Fellows — Dr. Raymundo Arroyave (Materials Science and Engineering); Dr. Mahmoud El-Halwagi (Chemical Engineering); Dr. Anastasia Muliana (Mechanical Engineering); Dr. Victor Ugaz (Chemical Engineering)
TEES Senior Fellows — Dr. Sharath Girimaji (Aerospace Engineering); Dr. Duncan Maitland (Biomedical Engineering); Dr. Binayak Mohanty (Biological and Agricultural Engineering); Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger (Computer Science and Engineering)
Dean of Engineering Excellence Award
Assistant Professor — Dr. Gretchen Miller (Civil Engineering); Dr. Michael Moreno (Mechanical Engineering)
Associate Professor — Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez (Biomedical Engineering); Dr. Arum Han (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Full Professor — Dr. Mark Holtzapple (Chemical Engineering); Dr. Rosana Moreira (Biological and Agricultural Engineering)