2022 Student Honors & Awards
Recognition of Academic Honors & Achievements
On Saturday, May 7, 2022, I was honored to lead the College of Engineering in recognizing 237 students with 137 distinct awards at the annual Recognition of Academic Honors and Achievements ceremony.
This event provides an opportunity for our College to publicly acknowledge the determination, perseverance, and, without debate, excellence of all our students by highlighting those that are performing at the highest levels. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to provide and foster quality engineering education.
Engineering and Computer Science constitute the creative advantage that fuels the technology of our society. Without the contributions from engineering and computer science, the technologies that can enrich human life, improve the health of the planet and expand the vision of what is possible will likely remain dormant and unrealized.
The faculty and staff of the College join me in wishing you the best as you are recognized for your excellence.
Levi T. Thompson
Elizabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering
Dean, College of Engineering
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Air Force ROTC Program
Lt. Col. Victoria Thomas, Detachment Commander
Distinguished Graduate Award
Kasey Feldtmose
Biomedical Engineering Department
Dr. Kristi Kiick, Chair
Best Dissertation Award
Cindy Farino
Best Paper Award
Rachel Gilbert Hutzel
Meghan Kupratis
Biomedical Engineering Chairperson’s Award
Megan Dang
Tori Reiner
Lauren Smith
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Chairperson’s Award
Elise Hoover
Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Sophomore Award
Hanna Armstrong
Emily Fitzgerald
Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Junior Award
David Bichara
Katy Strand
Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Senior Award
Carolina Gomez Casas
Dana Wilkins
Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Engineering Outreach Award
Lily Lin
Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Departmental Service Award
Cailin Gonyea
Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Alexa Diano
The Harker Family Scholarship
Heather King
Matthew Maguire Celebration of Life Memorial Award
Sarah Bailey
Micklin Family Engineering Scholarship
Emily Coghlan
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Dr. Eric M. Furst, Chair
American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Engineering
Ishika Govil
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Sophomore Award
Miyu Mudalamane
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Junior Award
Jacob Hewes
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Senior Award
Jackson Burns
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Graduate Award
Vinson Liao
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Othmer National Award Recipient 2021
Jacob Hewes
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Othmer National Award Recipient 2022
Miyu Mudalaman
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Zeisberg Award for Excellence in Research/Laboratory Report and
Chemical Engineering Alumni Laboratory Award
Al Mohanad Al Shuaili
Reema Alyahmadi
Cameron Bremer
Sarah Lapinski
2022 AIChE-FMC Scholarship for Excellence in Technical Writing on Sustainability
Ryan Dommes
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Freshman Scholarship Award
Aravind Arunachalam
Altaf Bacchus
Max Curello
Aidan Gensure
Anvita Gonthina
Ashley Kalan
Genevieve Kroll
Anna Long
Catherine Mackey
Rebekah Joy Marks
Vrishank Mechineni
Kyle Miller
Daniel Tortorella
Kayla Wolf
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Sophomore Scholarship Award
Miyu Mudalamane
Qi Zhang
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Senior Student Award
Nicholas Samulewicz
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Undergraduate Research Award
Kristin Paragian
Sean Wirt
Yin Zou
John R. Eagle Scholarship
Jack Granite
Jennifer Marcum
Phillip and Ruth Evans Chemical Engineering Fellowship
Jason Lee
Alexander F. Giacco Scholarship
Jake Kalscheur
Khai Khee Kho
Sylvia and Charles S. Joanedis Chemical Engineering Scholarship
Abdul Fayeed Abdul Kadir
Nicholas Samulewicz
Mr. & Mrs. James F. Kearns Scholarship in Chemical Engineering
Linh Ngoc Nguyen
Sean Wirt
Myrick Family Scholarship
Emily McMahon
Ruixue Xiong
Saurabh A. Palkar Graduate Award for Mentoring
Kartik Bomb
Samantha Cassel
Spencer Grissom
Alexandra Oliveira
Jonathan Otten
Sanjana Srinivas
Robert L. Pigford Scholarship
Geoffrey Bonnanzio
Jackson Burns
Adarsh Kannan
Aaron Lam
Theodore Lambert
Noah Osinski
Samuel Shultis
Prahalad Srinivasan
Joshua Watson
Yin Zou
Robert L. Pigford Teaching Assistant Award
Erica Green
Vinson Liao
Roshaan Surendhran
Will Thompson
Catherine Weiss
Stanley J. Schechter Award
Yuan Liu
John Allen Thoroughgood Legacy Scholarship in Chemical Engineering
Jacob Hewes
Richard Wool Award for Women in Green Engineering
Haeun Shin
Piaoping Yang
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Dr. Jack Puleo, Chair
AECOM Frank S. Waller Leadership Award
Andrew Huffer
Allan Myers Award in Construction Engineering
Andrew Ahlborn
Slade Goldman
Lindsay Putnam
Center for Composite Materials Undergraduate Research Award
Kenneth Olsen
Civil Engineering Graduate Research Award
Wanxin Li
Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Award
Georgia Angeletakis
Brandon Longtine
Christopher Metzler
Edward Sollazzo
Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Service Award
Asmaa Abo Alouk
Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Waleed Abu-Khader
Delaware Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Junior Award
Benjamin Horney
Delaware Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Senior Award
Maya Eley
Steven K. Dentel Memorial Award
Lauren Banks
Environmental Engineering Graduate Research Award
Paula Andrea Cárdenas Hernández
Francis E. Gardiner Jr. Scholarship
William Bongiorno III
Antonio Carvalho
Sarah Madison
Leslie Webb
Hagerty Environmental Graduate Award
Jing-Hua Tzeng
Hagerty Environmental Undergraduate Award
Leslie Webb
Dennis Mertz Scholarship
Karmyn Pasquariello
Rosario P. Award
Mary Kegelman
Chisom Ndubisi
Sustainable Civil and Environmental Engineering Award
Kimberly Bieksha
Kimberly Brogan
The RJN Foundation Civil and Environmental Engineering Award
Emily Christopher
Alexander Corona
Ryan McCune
Lillian Peterson
Joannie Wang
W. David and W. Corder Teter Civil Engineering Scholarship
Madeleine Boyle
Sarah Madison
VanDemark & Lynch Sophomore Award
Annabelle Dorsett
Verdantas Award
Heather Chidel
Washington Area Railway Engineering Society Award
Alyssa Freund
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Junior Award
Antonio Carvalho
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Senior Award
Alex Beigelman
College Awards
Engineering Alumni Association Award
Rebecca Beswick
Jacob Hewes
Hayley Sussman
Charles B. Evans Prize
Tohn Borjigin
Jackson Burns
Edward Thomas Grochowski Sr. Engineering Scholarship
Evan Eng
Sophia Smith
George W. Laird Fellowship
Andres Ramirez-Jaime
Jim Laser Scholarship
Guilherme Moura E Osorio De Valdoleiros
Lillian Sincoskie Scholarship
Hannah Epstein
Slocomb Engineering Scholarship
Jackson Burns
TEHEKA RISE Scholarship
Haritima Manchanda
Elbert C. Wisner RISE Corporate Friends Award
Chisom Ndubisi
Qi Zhang
Coach Irv Wisniewski Scholarship
Luis Molina Uria
Computer and Information Sciences Department
Dr. Rudolf Eigenmann, Interim Chair
Computer and Information Sciences Distinguished Graduate Student Award
Erfan Farhangi Maleki
Mauricio Ferrato
Cameron Ibrahim
Prerana Khatiwada
Ankit Kulshrestha
Jicheng Li
Tang Li
Ilya Tyagin
Ajith Vemuri
Kyle Wang
Jining Yu
Computer and Information Sciences Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Leighanne Hsu
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Fengchun Qiao
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Sophomore Student Award/Paul Amer Meritorious Award
Amani Kiruga
Sydney Segear
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Junior Student Award
Kristina Holsapple
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Senior Student Award/Paul Amer Meritorious Award
Lauren Baron
Gianna Bugieda
Computer and Information Sciences Undergraduate Honorable Mentions
Simon Brugel
Tara Fishman
Luke Halko
Jingqing Liu
Ren Ross
Moira Tews
Blade Tyrrell
Ribo Yuan
Steven Geracimos Memorial Award
Qinqi Zhang
Hatem M. Khalil Memorial Award
Josh Lyon
Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Computer Science Research
Xiaoyuan Liu
John K. Scoggin Sr. Memorial Award
Brennan Gallamoza
Lauri Pfeffer Shinn Memorial Award
Aishwarya Chandrasekaran
Amy Feldman
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Dr. Jamie Phillips, Chair
Computer Systems & Networking Graduate Faculty Award
FanRuo Meng
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award
Peter Cauchy
David Ellis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chairperson’s Award
Evan Battaglia
Daniel DeSantis
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Award
Evan Curtin
Christopher-Neil Mendoza
Eta Kappa Nu Award
Susan Arnopolin
Cameron Frey
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Delaware Bay Section Engineering Award
Nicholas Kater
Bright Lu
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Delaware Bay Section Student Activities Award
Luke Hutchinson
Elena Rosin
Roscoe M. Lewis Jr. ’50 Endowed Scholarship
Nolan Baker
Daniel Koch
Kevin Lewke
Galen Nare
Divya Shah
James H. Miller ’77 Scholarship
Justin Labombard
Nanoelectronics, Electromagnetics & Photonics Graduate Faculty Award
Zi Wang
Signal Processing and Communications Graduate Faculty Award
Edgar Salazar
Dave Sincoskie Electrical Engineering Scholarship
Randall Stafford
Peter J. Warter Scholarship
Perry Bernard
Peter Cauchy
WCKM Photonics Endowment Fund in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hannah West
Wayne Westerman Entrepreneur Scholarship
Ryan Purnell
Materials Science and Engineering Department
Dr. Darrin Pochan, Chair
Center for Composite Materials Directors’ Award
Munetaka Kubota
Faheem Muhammed
Materials Science and Engineering Chairperson’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Chaoya Han
Materials Science and Engineering Chairperson’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
Eduardo Nombera-Bueno
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Service Award
Vidhika Damani
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Nicole Halaszynski
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
Derek Bischoff
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Service Award
Lauren Bulger
Giordana Daniels
Mallory Gehrer
Townsend Long
Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award
Scott Toreki
William Quintana
Mechanical Engineering Department
Dr. Ajay Prasad, Chair
Gregory W. Antal Annual Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
Donovan Haverly
Yajaira Vergara-Guzman
Kevin Wolynetz
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) – Delaware Section Outstanding Senior Design
Final Presentation Award – Team Northrop Grumman
Abubakarr Bah
Sealani McCall
Gunjan Mehta
Jonathan Vizzi
ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) – Delaware Section Outstanding Senior Design
Final Presentation Award – Team Norwalt Design
Drake Chen
Caroline Curtiss
Angela Kuczykowski
Jeffrey Spencer
Center for Composite Materials Achievement Award
Paul Samuel
Center for Composite Materials Directors’ Award
Tania Lavaggi
Center for Composite Materials Tsu-Wei Chou Composites Science and Innovation Award
Navid Kermani
Center for Composite Materials R.L. McCullough Scholars Award
Christopher Meyer
Center for Composite Materials Outstanding Senior Award
Eli Bogetti
Henry Fidlow
Alexander Schneider
Andrew Stack
Center for Composite Materials Progress Award
Soodabeh Sharafi
Center for Composite Materials Undergraduate Research Award
Dean Vanegas
Tsu-Wei and Mei-Sheng Lo Chou Best Dissertation Award in Mechanical Engineering
Mohammad Morshed Moshiur Hasan
Graduate Student Achievement Award
Kayla Pariser
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Kaiyue Deng
Professor Michael Keefe Award for Excellence in Application of the Engineering Design Process
Abubakarr Bah
Sealani McCall
Gunjan Mehta
Jonathan Vizzi
W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award
John Papadopoulos
Nicole Pilla
W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Award to the Distinguished Junior
Cassidy McCormick
Valerie Moore
W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Award to the Distinguished Senior
Christopher Czerwinski
Sealani McCall
Stephanie Ross
Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Sophomore
Cameron Emmett
Madison Johnson
Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Junior
Sarah Bartlett
Sebastian Graper
John Papadopoulos
Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Senior
Zachary Conroy
Henry Fidlow
Camille Fischer
Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Senior Design Team
Abubakarr Bah
Sealani McCall
Gunjan Mehta
Jonathan Vizzi
Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Student Leader
Zachary Conroy
Stephanie Ross
Nicholas Ulizio
Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Student Service to the Department
Sean Congema
Olivia Hernandez
Melissa Hickman
Dani Moore
Ralph M. and Sarah Joe Newman Scholarship
Cassidy McCormick
Mary and George Nowinski Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Hannah Wiswell
W. David and W. Corder Teter Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
Marc Giordano
William Melick
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
Zachary Conroy
Camille Fischer
Stephanie Ross
Jeffrey Spencer
Hannah Wiswell
University Awards
American Chemical Society Scholar
Eduardo Nombera-Bueno
Goldwater Scholars
Rebecca Beswick
Ishika Govil
National Engineering Honor Society 2020-2021
Tau Beta Pi
Dr. Abraham M. Lenhoff, Faculty Advisor
Abdul Fayeed Abdul Kadir, President
Rainer Hlibok, Vice President
Katy Strand, Recording Secretary
Jacob Hewes, Corresponding Secretary
Nafisa Maryam, Treasurer