Faculty Achievements

Twelve KU Engineering faculty were awarded promotion and tenure for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Faculty promoted to full professor Prajna Dhar, chemical and petroleum engineering

Mario Medina, civil, environmental and architectural engineering

Aaron Scurto, chemical and petroleum engineering

Suzanne Shontz, electrical engineering and computer science

Xinmai Yang, mechanical engineering

Faculty promoted to associate professor with tenure William Collins, civil, environmental and architectural engineering

Xianglin Li, mechanical engineering

Xiaoli “Laura” Li, chemical and petroleum engineering

Joshua Roundy, civil, environmental and architectural engineering

Elaina Sutley, civil, environmental and architectural engineering

Huixuan Wu, aerospace engineering Faculty promoted to senior scientist Fernando Rodriguez-Morales, Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets

A research paper on cybersecurity authored by Alexandru Bardas, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was selected for presentation at the prestigious Oakland 2021 conference.

Jie Han, professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, co-authored a paper voted best paper published in The Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes in 2019.

Bala Subramaniam, distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences study group on the U.S. Chemical Economy and was elected President of the Great Plains Catalysis Society.

David Griffin, lab professor in chemical and petroleum engineering, received the 2020 Bob and Kathie Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award, which recognizes nontenure track faculty.

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