May 07, 2020
Although the MU College of Engineering was unable to hold its annual awards banquet in the spring of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College nevertheless honored faculty, staff and students for their dedication and service to the College.
College of Engineering faculty and staff receiving awards for their outstanding work include:
- Junior Faculty Excellence in Research Award: Jacob McFarland
- Senior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award: Stephen Lombardo
- Senior Faculty Excellence in Research Award: Shinghua Ding
- Outstanding Staff Awards: Jenne Parker and Lacie Ilsley
The College’s various degree programs gave awards to their most outstanding students:
Bioengineering
- Junior: Sarah Thompson
- Senior: Maria Patino-Carranza
- MS: Blake Darkow
- PhD: Jing Zhou
Biomedical Engineering
- Junior: Allison Hamill
- Senior: Zoe Bowman
Chemical Engineering
- Junior: Mollie Harrison
- Senior: Alyson Jones
- PhD (joint): Ahmed Jasim, Amir Mofrad
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Junior: Bryce Reynolds
- Senior: Mirnes Mustafic
- PhD (joint): Mohamed Bayati, Ayssar Abdulrazzak Nasser Al-Khafaji
Computer Science
- Junior: Rebecca Shyu
- Senior: Samantha Sample
- MS (joint): Evan Teters, Connor Rowland
- PhD (joint): Ke Gao, Yuexu Jiang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Senior: Jason Pae
- PhD (joint): Samira Shamsir, Jiayu Liu
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
- Junior (joint): Grace Floyd, Natalie Mowery
- Senior: Sheila Connelly
- MS: Roland Nazareth
- PhD: Wenbin Guo
Information Technology
- Junior: Persephone Gloeckner-Suits
- Senior: Hunter McVey
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Junior: James Wyatt Fritch
- Senior: Austin Libeer
- MS: Vasco Duke-Walker
- PhD: Hui Chen
Nuclear Engineering
- PhD (joint): Andrea Alejandro Saltos, Abu Rafi Iasir
Congratulations to all of the award winners!