2023 Student Honors and Awards

Lt. Col. Victoria Thomas, Detachment Commander

Distinguished Graduate Award
Andrew M. Jerzylo

Dr. Kristi Kiick, Chair

Best Dissertation Award
Grace McIlvain

Biomedical Engineering Chairperson’s Award
Sean Holly
Mackenzie Scully
Katy Strand

Biomedical Engineering Graduate Chairperson’s Award
Cailin Gonyea

Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Sophomore Award
Laura Weinstein
Ruth Wilhelm

Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Junior Award
Hanna Armstrong
Yaren Usul

Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Senior Award
Lauren Mottel
Rachel Swingler

Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Engineering Outreach Award
Sara Aboeleneen
Ashika Singh

Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Departmental Service Award
Olivia Bailey
Cody Helm

Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Ali Lateef

The Harker Family Scholarship
Heather King

Matthew Maguire Celebration of Life Memorial Award
Cara McKenna

Micklin Family Engineering Scholarship
Emily Coghlan

Dr. Millicent O. Sullivan, Chair

American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Engineering
Miyu Mudalamane

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Sophomore Award
Charlotte Gottilla

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Junior Award
Miyu Mudalamane

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Senior Award
Rebecca Beswick

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Graduate Award
D’Jana Willis

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Alumni Award
Victoria Muir

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Othmer National Award Recipient
Rebecca Beswick

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Zeisberg Award for Excellence in Research/Laboratory Report and
Chemical Engineering Alumni Laboratory Award
Toni Akin-Adenekan
Emily Barbato
Lance Hoch
Zhanyuan Liu

Department Teaching Fellow
Jason Conradt
Antonio Goncalves
Akash Vaidya

Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors First Year Scholarship Award
Kainat Azhar
Gavin Brownstein
Anoushka Buddhikot
Jadira Aurora Fuentes Bautista
George Lauri
Samuel Macdonald
Abigail Shaw
Giorgio Tasiopoulos

Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Sophomore Scholarship Award
Anvita Gonthina
Rebekah Marks

Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Senior Student Award
Jack Granite

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
Thomas Leibiger

Alexander F. Giacco Scholarship
Audrey Cicerchia
Timothy Longoria

Sylvia and Charles S. Joanedis Chemical Engineering Scholarship
Matthew Bieker
Curtis Crymes

Mr. & Mrs. James F. Kearns Scholarship in Chemical Engineering
Jacob Hewes
Ishika Govil

Myrick Family Scholarship
Rebecca Beswick
Alicia Platchek

Saurabh A. Palkar Graduate Award for Mentoring
Ross Klauer

Robert L. Pigford Scholarship
Andrew Blackburn
Nicholas Cameron
Katherine Graboski
Jack Granite
Joseph Im Xhanyuan Liu
Scott Sampson
Eduardo Nombera Bueno
John Werb
Bingzhi Wu

Robert L. Pigford Teaching Assistant Award
Eric Chen
Jason Conradt
Kenneth Crane-Moscowitz
Chaoying Ding
Michelle Gee
Spencer Grissom

Fraser and Shirley Russell Teaching Fellow in Chemical Engineering
Anthony Stohr

John Allen Thoroughgood Legacy Scholarship in Chemical Engineering
Ethan Chang

Richard Wool Award for Women in Green Engineering
Alison Shapiro

Dr. Jack Puleo, Chair

AECOM Frank S. Waller Leadership Award
Megan Bittle

Allan Myers Award in Construction Engineering
Caden Brooks
Luke Depireux
Matthew Spector

Center for Composite Materials Progress Award
Sandra Milev

Civil Engineering Graduate Research Award
Benjamin Tsai

Civil and Environmental Engineering Alumni Award
Ryan Kim
Jack Linko
Joannie Wang
Grace Wootten

Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Service Award
Caroline Williams

Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Babatunte Onase

Delaware Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Junior Award
Annabelle Dorsett

Delaware Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Senior Award
Maya Eley

Steven K. Dentel Memorial Award
Megan Hamilton

Environmental Engineering Graduate Research Award
Cuijuan Feng

Francis E. Gardiner Jr. Scholarship
Georgia Angeletakis
Jack Linko
Lindsay Putnam
Edward Sollazzo
Matthew Spector
Grace Wootten

Hagerty Environmental Graduate Award
Paula Cárdenas Hernández

Hagerty Environmental Undergraduate Award
Holly Cobb

Dennis Mertz Scholarship
Jack Burlew

Rosario P. Award
Leslie Webb

Sustainable Civil and Environmental Engineering Award
Aliya Curran
Mikayla Rypkema

The RJN Foundation Civil and Environmental Engineering Award
Andrew Ahlborn
Genevieve Cordeiro
Christopher Metzler
Chisom Ndubisi
Matthew Winward

W. David and W. Corder Teter Civil Engineering Scholarship

VanDemark & Lynch Sophomore Award
Slade Goldman

Verdantas Award
Jack Palevich

Washington Area Railway Engineering Society Award
Richard Pulgini

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Junior Award
Greysen Morris

The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Senior Award
Julia Stefano

Engineering Alumni Association Award
Emily Fitzgerald
Julia Hatoum
Amani Kiruga

Charles B. Evans Prize
Kenneth Olsen

Edward Thomas Grochowski Sr. Engineering Scholarship
Evan Eng
Sophia Smith

George W. Laird Fellowship
Abdulmalik Kayode Yusuf

Jim Laser Scholarship
Hannah Towhey

Lillian Sincoskie Scholarship
Hannah Epstein

Slocomb Engineering Scholarship 2022
Toni Akin-Adenekan

Slocomb Engineering Scholarship 2023
William Gaither

TEHEKA RISE Scholarship
Priya Salako

Elbert C. Wisner RISE Corporate Friends Award
Oluwatomiwa Morakinyo
Judy Van Rooyen

Coach Irv Wisniewski Scholarship
Sophia Talley

Dr. Weisong Shi, Chair

Daniel L. Chester Graduate Fellowship Award
Jon Kilgannon
Lauren Olson
Shayla Sharmin
Eric Zhang

Computer and Information Sciences Distinguished Graduate Student Award
Sultan Alrowili
Mauricio Ferrato
Zhang Guo
Prerana Khatiwada
Erfan Farhangi Maleki
Shivanand Venkanna Sheshappanavar
Yifan Wang

Computer and Information Sciences Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Shayla Sharmin

Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Rohit Dulam

Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Sophomore Student Award/Paul Amer Meritorious Award
Simon Brugel
Joy Mwaria

Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Junior Student Award
Shreeya Parekh

Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Senior Student Award
Kristina Holsapple

Computer and Information Sciences Undergraduate Honorable Mentions
Michael Bocelli
Avinash Chouhan
Emma Frampton
Luke Halko
Jaydon Reap
Tyran Rice
Sydney Segear
Diya Shah
Ocean Shen
Aidan Tran
Blade Tyrrell
Abby Walters

Steven Geracimos Memorial Award
Michael Carr

The Harker Family Scholarship
Gia Diaz

Hatem M. Khalil Memorial Award
Moira Tews

Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Computer Science Research
Mehak Gupta

John K. Scoggin Sr. Memorial Award
Aaron Gluck

Lauri Pfeffer Shinn Memorial Award
Megan Englert
Minji Kong

Dr. Jamie Phillips, Chair

Bendett Fellowship Award
Claudio Cesar Claros Olivares

Computer Systems & Networking Graduate Faculty Award
Yue Zhang

Dr. Charles “Chase” Cotton Cybersecurity Award
Samuel Guillermo Adames Castillo
Colby Dolbow

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award
Brandon Marafino
Zachary Moorman

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chairperson’s Award
Bryce Leslie
Nafisa Maryam

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Award
Peter Cauchy
Ethan Mensch

Eta Kappa Nu Award
Colin Anderson
Kyle Matthew Regan

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Delaware Bay Section Engineering Award
Nicholas Michael Peterson
Randall Jacob Stafford

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Delaware Bay Section Student Activities Award
Jeanae Clark
Aaron Jarmusch

Roscoe M. Lewis Jr. ’50 Endowed Scholarship
Nolan Baker
Daniel Koch
Galen Nare

James H. Miller ’77 Scholarship
Brice Carlson
Michael Ward

Nanoelectronics, Electromagnetics & Photonics Graduate Faculty Award
Md Jubayer Shawon

Signal Processing and Communications Graduate Faculty Award
Christian David Escobar

Dave Sincoskie Electrical Engineering Scholarship
Randall Jacob Stafford

Peter J. Warter Scholarship
Jeanae Clark
Sebastian Krausz
Benjamin Mirotznik
Alex Mulrooney

WCKM Photonics Endowment Fund in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lorry Chang

Wayne Westerman Entrepreneur Scholarship
Luke Hutchinson

Westerman Family Graduate Research Award
Tasha Kaewnukultorn

Dr. Joshua Zide, Chair

Center for Composite Materials Achievement Award
Branndon Chen

Center for Composite Materials R.L. McCullough Scholars Award
Faheem Muhammed

Materials Science and Engineering Chairperson’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Sai Patkar

Materials Science and Engineering Chairperson’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
Marina Hastings

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Service Award
Aqiq Ishraq
Lottie Murray
Peter Osazuwa

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Jignesh Mahajan
Abigail Nolin

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
Henry Carfagno
Jill Cleveland

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Service Award
Mallory Gehrer
Stephanie Synnott
Logan Whitesel

Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award
Arriana Bisram
Giordana Daniels
Caitlyn Edgar

Dr. Ajay Prasad, Chair

Gregory W. Antal Annual Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
Donovan Haverly
Yae June Jang
Cassidy McCormick

Center for Composite Materials Achievement Award
Kaiyue Deng

Center for Composite Materials Outstanding Senior Award
Aaron Fieger
Tommy Zheng

Center for Composite Materials Progress Award
Tania Lavaggi

Center for Composite Materials Tsu-Wei Chou Composites Science and Innovation Award
Raja Ganesh
Dae Han Sung

Tsu-Wei and Mei-Sheng Lo Chou Best Dissertation Award in Mechanical Engineering
Utsav Raj Aryal
Behdad Chalaki

Graduate Student Achievement Award
Kyra Twohy

Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Margo Donlin
Robert Salati

Professor Michael Keefe Award for Excellence in Application of the Engineering Design Process
Brian Fischer
Sebastian Graper
Timmy Hough
Oscar Marino

W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award
Cameron Emmett
Madison Johnson

W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Award to the Distinguished Junior
Alex Abrams
Benjamin Caro

W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Award to the Distinguished Senior
Cassidy McCormick
John Papadopoulos
Nicole Pilla

Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Sophomore
Kaitlyn Dohn
Jared Peoples

Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Junior
Braden Cluett
Michael Forte
Andrew Smith

Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Senior
Sarah Bartlett
Lorrha Hitchner
Harrison Muller

Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Senior Design Team
Dominic Corona
Olivia Hernandez
Logan McKinney
Rory van der Steur

Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Student Leader
Olivia Hernandez
Dani Moore
Caylin Payne

Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Student Service to the Department
Cassidy McCormick
John Papadopoulos
Nicole Pilla

Ralph M. and Sarah Joe Newman Scholarship
Owen Ferrone

Mary and George Nowinski Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Valerie Moore

W. David and W. Corder Teter Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
Braden Cluett
Owen Ferrone

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
Logan Butler
William Gaither
Nicole Pilla
Jennifer Ziegler
Alexandra Zurzolo

Goldwater Scholars
Miyu Mudalamane
Qi Matthew Zhang

Truman Scholar
Shreeya Parekh

Tau Beta Pi

Dr. Abraham M. Lenhoff, Faculty Advisor
Jacob Hewes, President
Georgia Angeletakis, Vice President