SEMTE
Celebration of Excellence
Each year, SEMTE recognizes the achievements of faculty, staff and students at its annual Celebration of Excellence event. This year, due to COVID-19, we were unable to host our event. Please join us in congratulating our 2020 awardees!
Faculty Awards
Top 5% teaching
- Werner Dahm
- Lenore Dai
- Hyunglae Lee
- Ryan Milcarek
- Kiran Solanki
- Sef Tongay
National Science Foundation CAREER award
- Brent Nannenga
- Yulia Peet
- Sze Zheng Yong
National Academy of Inventors Fellow
- Nate Newman
- Terry Alford
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- Sef Tongay
SEMTE Staff Excellence Awards
Rising Star
- Miriah Kleijn
- Amy Newberg
Staff Excellence Award
- Robert Booher
- Samantha Ramirez
- Molly Swindler
National Student Awards
NSF Fellowship
- Ava Karanjia, Chemical Engineering (Faculty Advisor: Heather Bean, Microbiology)
- Justin Huxel, Materials Science & Engineering (Faculty Advisor: Zach Holman, ECEE)
Goldwater Scholarship
- Alexis Hocken, Chemical Engineering (Faculty Advisor: Matthew Green, Chemical Engineering)
Outstanding Graduate Student Research
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Shiba Biswal (Faculty advisor: Spring Berman)
- Keju An (Faculty advisor: Jean Andino)
Materials Science Engineering
- Lei Liu (Faculty advisor: Houlong Zhuang)
Chemical Engineering
- Yifei Xu (Faculty advisor: Lenore Dai)
- Jamie Handlos (Faculty advisor: Abhi Acharya)
Biological Design Engineering
- Hanah Goetz (Faculty advisor: Xiaojun Tian – SBHSE)
- Deepanjan Ghosh (Faculty advisor: Kaushal Rege)
- Joel Lusk (Faculty advisor: Barbara Smith – SBHSE)
- Devin Bowes (Faculty advisor: Rolf Halden – SEBE)
Outstanding TA/UGTA
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- TA – Marielle Debeurre
- UGTA – Jessica Lin
Chemical Engineering
- TA – Zachary Hubbard
- UGTA – Steven Wilson
Materials Science Engineering
- TA – Evangeline Amonoo
- UGTA – Tanzil Chowdhury
Fulton IMPACT Service Awards
- Claire Jordan – Mechanical Engineering
- Ava Karnjia – Chemical Engineering
- Tyler Souders – Aerospace Engineering (Aeronautics)
- Eric Trinh – Chemical Engineering
- Madison Walker – Mechanical Engineering
Outstanding Honors Thesis
- Alex Gardeck, Mechanical Engineering (Faculty Advisor: Mark Holl, Biological Design Engineering)
- Tiffany Hertzell, Mechanical Engineering (Faculty Advisor: Hyunglae Lee, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
- Daniel Sinclair, Materials Science and Engineering (Faculty Advisor: Nik Chawla, Materials Science and Engineering)
- Serita Sulzman, Materials Science and Engineering (Faculty Advisors: Qing Hua Wang and Candace Chan, Materials Science and Engineering)
Outstanding Undergraduates
Aerospace Engineering
- Outstanding Graduate: Mennatallah Hussein
- Finalists: Ciara Sypherd, David Valderama
Mechanical Engineering
- Outstanding Graduate: Julie Pham
- Finalists: Clayton Bliss, Lucas Petersen, Alex Gardeck
Chemical Engineering
- Outstanding Graduate: Maeve Kennedy (also SEMTE Outstanding Graduate)
- Finalists: Alyssa Carlson, Shaun MacDonald, Savanah Hull, Morgan Delgado, Omar Abed
Materials Science & Engineering
- Outstanding Graduate: Serita Sulzman
- Finalists: Jennifer Connor, Tanzil Chowdhury, Thomas Ohrn, Justin Huxel