2014 FACULTY/STAFF AWARDS AND HONORS
Faculty Recognition Kalyan Annamalai, professor, received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering N.K. Anand, Executive Associate Dean of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Named Regents Professor, Texas A&M University System, 2014 Sevan Gonezen, assistant professor, received the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant award Jaime Grunlan, professor, received the TEES Faculty Fellow 2014 award Je-Chin Han, professor, received the Heat Transfer 75th Anniversary Medal, ASME Timothy Jacobs, associate professor, received the Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award, SAE Won-Jong Kim, associate professor, received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering Yong-Joe Kim, assistant professor, received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Pioneer Natural Resources Faculty Fellow II, College Of Engineering Maria King, research associate professor, was recognized as the “Professor of the Year 2013-2014”
by the Biotechnology Society at Texas A&M Ying Li, associate professor, received an NSF Career Award Richard Malak, assistant professor, received the Morris-Foster Faculty Fellowship, as well as a TEES Select Yound Faculty Fellow award, and the 2014 Engineering Genesis Award from TEES
Luis San Andres, professor, was granted the Mast-Childs Chair in Mechanical Engineering, and won 2014 Outstanding Paper 9th IFToMM International Conference of Rotordynamics, Milan, Italy (1/198 papers) Arun Srinivasa, professor, received the Holdredge/Paul Professorship, MEEN
Gerald Morrison, professor, received the Henry R. Worthington Medal, ASME 2014
David Staack, assistant professor, received the Peggy L. & Charles Brittan ‘65 Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate
Ana Muliana, associate professor, received the Herbert H. Richardson Fellow Award
Staff Recognition
Alan Palazzolo, professor, received the Annual ASME Journal of Tribology Best Paper Award Eric Petersen, professor, received the Best Paper Award, from X ISHPMIE in collaboration with M. S. Mannan
Teaching, as well as a TEES Select Young Faculty Fellow award Choongho Yu, associate professor, was named the Gulf/Oil Thomas A. Dietz Career Development Professor II by the Department of Mechanical Engineering Xinghang Zhang, associate professor, was recognized as the Gulf Oil/Thomas A. Dietz Career Development Professor, and also received the College of Engineering Holleran-Bowman Faculty Fellow award
Ann Hsiao, Business Coordinator Mike Theiss, Technician II, was II, was recognized as Outstanding recognized with the Staff Excellence Award Support Staff Crystal Morris, Lead Office Asso- Mitch Wittneben, Senior Inforciate, was recognized with the Staff mation Technology Profesional II, was recognized as Outstanding Excellence Award Support Staff
Bryan Rasmussen, associate professor, received the Excellence in Applied Energy Engineering Research from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office J.N. Reddy, professor, received the International Association for Computational Mechanics Award, Raymond D. Mindlin Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, Finland Distinguished Professor, Aalto University and National Technology Agency of Finland
Dr. Andreas Polycarpou, department head, and Mike Theiss, recipient of the department 2014 Staff Excellence Award.
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