STudent, Faculty, & Staff Awards FACULTY & ACADEMIC PROFESSIONALS Said Abdel-Khalik Appointed as member of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) Advisory Council Steve Antoiovich Inducted into World Academy of Structural Integrity Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb NSF CAREER Award; 2013 IEEE-UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award Wayne Book ASME 2013 Robert E. Koski Medal Mohammed Cherkaoui NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Award
Dirk Schaefer Appointed as Founding President of the International Society of Engineering Education (IGIP), USA Region; ASME Atlanta Chapter “Mechanical Engineer of the Year”
Davis Hoffman 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium 1st Place Poster
Suresh Sitaraman 2012 ASME/Electronics and Photonics Packaging Division (EPPD) Applied Mechanics Award
Aniruddha Joshi Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Outstanding Paper Award
Susan Thomas 2013 Class of 1969 Teaching Fellow; BMES 2013 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award Bill Wepfer ABET Fellow Wayne Whiteman Anderson D. Smith Administrator of the Year Award
Dhruv Hoysall ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-inAid Award
Alisha Kasam 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Award Suhasa Kodandaramaiah Named in Forbes.com 30 Under 30 Drew Loney Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Scholars Award
Sueng-Kyum Choi Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
Pui- Kuen Yeung ASME Fellow Minami Yoda American Physical Society Fellow
Yan Li Boeing Engineering Student of the Year Award Honorable Mention in the Graduate Category
Baratunde Cola AAAS 2012 Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science
Ting Zhu 2013 ASME Sia Nemat-Nassar Early Career Award
Malcolm Macdonald ASHRAE Graduate Student Grant-in-Aid Award
Jonathan Colton Jefferson Science Fellow for the U.S. State Department/USAID
Woodruff School Teaching Fellows: Peter Carnell, Askash Dixit, Sam Graham, Tequila Harris, Peter Hesketh, David Hu, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou, Todd Sulchek, Susan Thomas, Charles Ume, Yan Wang, Zhuomin Zhang
Hassan Masoud SES2012 3rd Place in Graduate Student Presentation Competition
Suman Das Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair Nico Declercq Ambassador of the PromoDoc Initiative Chaitanya Deo Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure Alper Erturk NSF CAREER Award Craig Forest 2013 Engineer of the Year in Education recipient by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE); Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology Award; Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award Ken Gall SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Srinivas Garimella Department of Defense and ARPA-E Award Andres Garcia 2012 Clemson Award for Basic Research from the Society of Biomaterials; 2012 AAAS Fellow; Awarded title of Regents’ Professor Ari Glezer ARPA-E Award Sam Graham SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics; Promoted to full Professor Asegun Henry ARPA-E Award David Hu NSF CAREER Award; 2013 Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award; ENGAGE Everyday Examples in Engineering Award Yogendra Joshi 2013 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the General Category David McDowell Named Founding Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Materials (IMat) Chris Paredis Promoted to full Professor Bojan Petrovic Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program Award; Awarded tenure Olivier Pierron NSF CAREER Award; 2013 CETL/ BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award; SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics; Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure Erica Ryherd Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure Richard Salant Appointment of Professor Emeritus, Jan 2014
STAFF Louis Boulanger Promoted to Mechanical Specialist Dana Foster Promoted to Administrative Professional Senior Mason Hollandbeck Spring 2013 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award Cary Ogletree Fall 2012 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award
STUDENTS Brian Allen SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Banafsheh Barabadi 2013 ASME InterPACK Best Poster Award Eva Baumert SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Md Bhuiyan Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE)2013 Annual Technical Conference (ANTEC) 3rd Place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition Lauren Casa Achievement Rewards for Academic Scientists (ARCS) Scholars Award Sukwon Choi SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Chandan Edirisinghe SES2012 2nd Place in Undergraduate Student Presentation Competition
Kathryn Matlack 2013 Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Award Winner Mason McClatchey Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering 2013 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Peter McKeon ICA 2013 Montreal International Congress on Acoustics Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics Alex Muroyama NSF Award Jaeyun Moon Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Outstanding Paper Award Dhruv Nair Alphabet Energy Inc. Thermoelectric Design Award S. Natarajani 2013 Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis Olutobi Ogunleye 2013 Class of Space Technology Research Fellow Gregory Ostrowicki 2013 Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Bhasker Pant SEM 2014 Hetenyi Award for Best Research Paper in Experimental Mechanics Parisa Pooyan TMS 2012 Student Poster Contest Best of Show in the Graduate Category Sathya Raghavan Intel Best Student Paper Award Nathan Sacks ASME Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE) Intern Jason Shieh Pi Tau Sigma’s national recipient of the Ed and Fay Griggs Scholarship Thomas Stone ASME 2013-2014 Graduate Teaching Fellow Christopher Taylor 2013 Inventure Prize Winner
Fei Fei Fan Southeast Regional Energy Symposium Poster Competition 3rd Place
Scottie Walker 2013 INMM Conference 2nd Best Student Paper Award
Talia Field NSF Award
Ryder Winck 2013 Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis
Man Prakash Gupta 2013 ASME InterPACK Travel Grant and Outstanding Poster
Dazhong Wu ASME Atlanta Chapter Outstanding Student
Ravi Haksar 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium 1st Place Poster
Sihong Zhao ASME Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures, and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) Conference Best Student Paper Award; 2013 Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis
David Heath Alphabet Energy Inc. Thermoelectric Design Award Caitlin Henegar NSF Award Sebastian Herzig Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Software Available for Public Release Award