Student Honors & Awards
Recognition of Academic Honors & Achievements
Saturday, May 3, 2025
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Pearson Hall
Order of Events
Processional
Welcome
Tripp Shenton, Associate Dean
Dean’s Address
Pam Norris, Dean
George W. Laird Merit Fellowship Award
Jill Higginson, George W. Laird Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Recognition of Academic Honors & Achievements
Closing Remarks
Tripp Shenton, Associate Dean
Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Ryan Zurakowski, Interim Department Chair
Biomedical Engineering Best Dissertation Award
Roisin Donnelly
Biomedical Engineering Best Paper Award
Shalini Sundar
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Chairperson’s Award
Rucha Kulkarni
Lily Lin
Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Sophomore Award
Meghna Annasagaram
Alexander Broadhurst
Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Junior Award
Ryann Chatfield
Kayla Siciliano
Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Senior Award
Christopher Peters
Avery Wolverton
Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Engineering Outreach Award
Sabrina Vander Wiele
Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Departmental Service Award
Mackenzie Conner
Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Chitran Roy Chowdhury
Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Chairperson’s Award
Sudha Anilkumar
Sindhu Narayan
Matthew Maguire Celebration of Life Memorial Award
Ruth Wilhelm
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Dr. Millicent O. Sullivan, Chair
2024 AICHE Minority Affairs Community Scholarship Award
Emmanuel Ortiz
American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Engineering
George Lauri
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Alumnus Award
Jason McMullan
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Graduate Award
Logan Yeager
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Sophomore Award
Ryan Svenson
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Junior Award
Anoushka Buddhikot
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Senior Award
Paige Bastek
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Zeisberg Award for Excellence in Research/Laboratory Report and
Chemical Engineering Alumni Laboratory Award
Eric Dickson-Peppler
Aadhira Gopalan
Charlotte Gottilla
Mekhi Williams
Sandra Spence Bowman ’04 and J. Michael Bowman Schorlarshp
Anoushka Buddhikot
Peyton Swanson
Center for Composite Materials Outstanding Senior Award
Abigail Conklin
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors First Year Scholarship Award
Derek Consula
Jacob Escobar
Reagan Forkey
Kyle Portington
Amelia Owen
Elisabeth Roberts
Landon Sentak
William Ye
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Sophomore Scholarship Award
Alexander Bregvadze
Lily Ditty
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Senior Student Award
Charlotte Gottilla
Chemical Engineering Industrial Sponsors Undergraduate Research Award
Zachary Dixon
Aidan Gensure
Genevieve Kroll
Department Teaching Fellow
Izak Minnie
John R. Eagle Scholarship
Randy Serafin
Kayla Wolf
Phillip and Ruth Evans Chemical Engineering Fellowship
Jessica Rubira Gamba
Alexander F. Giacco Scholarship
Defne Elbeyli
James Ziereis
Sylvia and Charles S. Joanedis Chemical Engineering Scholarship
Gavin Brownstein
George Lauri
Mr. & Mrs. James F. Kearns Scholarship in Chemical Engineering
Victoria Shultz
Kyle Wodehouse
Myrick Family Scholarship
Rebekah Marks
Kayla Wolf
Saurabh A. Palkar Graduate Award for Mentoring
Anthony Stohr
Robert L. Pigford Scholarship
Helena Hansen
Robert L. Pigford Teaching Assistant Award
Marco Colin Martinez
Quent Hartt
Venice Magunga
Izak Minnie
Christine Oberhausen
Jessie Sun
Joyce and Robert Richards Endowed Fellowship
Erik Anderson
Katherine Raudenbush Henderson
Fraser and Shirley Russell Teaching Fellow in Chemical Engineering
Eric Slaughter
John Allen Thoroughgood Legacy Scholarship in Chemical Engineering
Ian Hegge
Kyle Miller
Richard Wool Award for Women in Green Engineering
Christine Oberhausen
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Jack Puleo, Chair
AECOM Frank S. Waller Leadership Award
Chris Segreti
Allan Myers Award in Construction Engineering
First Year: Cole Nicholson
Sophomore: Victoria Parsons
Junior: Luke Depireux
Jeffrey M. Bross Memorial Scholarship
Slade Goldman
Grace Wootten
Civil Engineering Graduate Research Award
Jiaye Zhang
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Alumni Award
First Year: Catherine Hunt
Sophomore: Alexander Reif
Junior: Caitlyn Zeller
Senior: Caden Brooks
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Graduate Student Service Award
Jeremiah Dzeble
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Hannah Power
Delaware Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Junior Award
Patricia Devine
Delaware Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers Senior Award
Gavin Saric
Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence
Utkarsh Gangwal
Steven K. Dentel Memorial Award
Kiersten Schmitt
Francis E. Gardiner Jr. Scholarship
Patricia Devine
Lianna Greenstein
Ryan Kim
Nicole LaRiccia
Laney Mitchell
Collin Nolan
Caitlyn Zeller
Hagerty Environmental Graduate Award
Tawsif Raaz
Hagerty Environmental Undergraduate Award
Caroline Gilliard
Dennis Mertz Scholarship
Jeffrey Kummeth
Micklin Family Engineering Scholarship
Chelsea Flaherty
Richard E. Pierson Construction Company, Inc. Annual Scholarship
Peter Racz
Rosario P. Award
Nathan Wolhar
Sustainable Civil and Environmental Engineering Award
Samantha Chittakone
Brenna Derby
The RJN Foundation Civil and Environmental Engineering Award
Sophomore: Sarah Lopatofsky
Junior: Ryan Kim
Seniors: Georgia Angeletakis
Genevieve Cordeiro
Grace Wootten
W. David and W. Corder Teter Civil Engineering Scholarship
Seth Reynolds
VanDemark & Lynch Sophomore Award
Daniel Porotov
Washington Area Railway Engineering Society Award
Kristen Barna
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Junior Award
Natalie Botto
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Senior Award
Slade Goldman
College Awards
Badmus Family RISE 2.0 Scholarship
Sage Schiff
Charles B. Evans Prize
Avery Wolverton
Chuck Ganci Scholarship
David Fechtman
Edward Thomas Grochowski, Sr. Engineering Scholarship
Antoine Gravat
Andrew Ngo
George W. Laird Merit Fellowship Award
Mikayla Jackson
Terry F. Neimeyer Scholarship
Elizabeth Dassoulas
Lillian Sincoskie Scholarship
Winnie Li
Slocomb Engineering Scholarship 2024
Logan Butler
Charlotte Gottilla
Elbert C. Wisner RISE Corporate Friends Award
Judy Van Rooyen
Coach Irv Wisniewski Scholarship
Elizabeth DeMichele
Computer and Information Sciences
Dr. Weisong Shi, Chair
Daniel L. Chester Graduate Fellowship Award
Aishwarya Chandrasekaran
Austin Meek
Lauren Olson
Shayla Sharmin
Computer and Information Sciences Distinguished Graduate Student Award
Prerana Khatiwada
Xihan Qin
Jianbo Zhang
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award
Chris Egersdoerfer
Tang Li
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Abhishek Karwankar
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Behdokht Kiafar
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Sophomore Student Award
Zachariah Sollenberger
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Junior Student Award
Giovanna Scozzaro
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Senior Student Award
Talha Mahmood
Computer and Information Sciences Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
Ava West
Computer and Information Sciences Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Saieda Ali Zada
Jillian Camp
Leo Chen
Owen He
Andrew Kallai
Benjamin Le
Alexander Lee
Gael Lucero-Palacios
Cornelia Meiss
Rana Tuncer
Coleman Walsh
Steven Geracimos Memorial Award
Gavin Caulfield
Hatem M. Khalil Memorial Award
Victoria Nikolaeva
Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Computer Science Research
Jiadong Lou
John K. Scoggin, Sr. Memorial Award
Winnie Li
Lauri Pfeffer Shinn Memorial Award
Yifan Wang
Ella Wilkins
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Jamie Phillips, Chair
Computer Systems & Networking Graduate Faculty Award
Haoke Xu
Dr. Charles “Chase” Cotton Cybersecurity Award
Colby Dolbow
Sean Pearce
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Award
Logan Blackburn
Lindsey Wang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Chairperson’s Award
Joshua Hyman
Alex Mulrooney
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Award
Benjamin Mirotznik
Sebastian Torres
Eta Kappa Nu Award
Lilia Henkel
Tyler Rizak
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Delaware Bay Section Engineering Award
Michael Earley
Ian Wilt
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Delaware Bay Section Student Activities Award
Christian Keleher
Grace Li
Roscoe M. Lewis Jr. ’50 Endowed Scholarship
Thaddeus Karl
James H. Miller ’77 Scholarship
Brice Carlson
Nanoelectronics, Electromagnetics & Photonics Graduate Faculty Award
Haixin Zhao
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Christian Escobar
Signal Processing and Communications Graduate Faculty Award
Carlos Restrepo
Dave Sincoskie Electrical Engineering Scholarship
Andrae Amponsah
Peter J. Warter Scholarship
Steven Jacovetti
Ashrey Mahesh
Benjamin Mirotznik
Wayne Westerman Entrepreneur Scholarship
Matthew Ward
Westerman Family Graduate Research Fund Award
Alimur Razi
Materials Science and Engineering
Dr. Joshua Zide, Chair
Koerner Family Foundation Fellowship
Lottie Murray
Materials Science and Engineering Chairperson’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Lottie Murray
Materials Science and Engineering Chairperson’s Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
Caitlyn Edgar
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Service Award
Angelique Gordon
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Intuon Chatratin
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
Shagorika Mukherjee
Lottie Murray
Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Service Award
Melanie Heider
Alven Huang
Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Academic Achievement Award
Hashil Al Ismaili
George Lauri
Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Gregory S. Chirikjian, Chair
Gregory W. Antal Annual Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
Connor McCleery
Center for Composite Materials Achievement Award
Andrew Stack
Center for Composite Materials Progress Award
Amit Deshpande
Center for Composite Materials R.L. McCullough Scholars Award
Uday Balaga
Center for Composite Materials Tsu-Wei Chou Composites Science and Innovation Award
Kaiyue Deng
Center for Composite Materials Undergraduate Researcher Award
Joseph Scilla
Tsu-Wei & Mei-Sheng Lo Chou Dissertation Award in Mechanical Engineering
Soyeon Park
Graduate Achievement Award
Amit Deshpande
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Tyler Meyer
Professor Michael Keefe Award for Excellence in Application of the Engineering Design Process
Jack Kelly
Jason Martin
Karen Scharpf
Zachary Williams
W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award
Logan Feiler
Ariane Simbulan
W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Award to the Distinguished Junior
Emma Staib
Nicholas Weis
W. Francis Lindell Mechanical Engineering Award to the Distinguished Senior
Logan Butler
Connor McCleary
Russell Perdue
Tyler Salmon
Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Sophomore
Lauren Damiano
Sofia Lopez
Filip Ruzek
Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Junior
Olivia Langley
Christopher Segura
Olivia Wilson
Mechanical Engineering Alumni Award – Outstanding Senior
Aisley Bergdoll
Owen Ferrone
Kaan Karatas
Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Senior Design Team
Logan Butler
Samantha Gerhart
Matthew Meredith
Gavin Redgrave
Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Student Leader
Alexandra Alatzas
Lauren Desantis
Mechanical Engineering Chairperson Award – Outstanding Student Service to the Department
Carissa Bonner
Logan Butler
Annika Labrador
Nicholas Smith
Charlie Whealton
Ernest A. Mettenet Scholarship
William Louden
Kylie Taylor
Ralph M. and Sarah Joe Newman Scholarship
Aisley Bergdoll
Mary and George Nowinski Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Charlie Whealton
W. David and W. Corder Teter Mechanical Engineering Scholarship
Owen Ferrone
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
Carissa Bonner
Marissa Dailey
Lauren Desantis
Tyler Salmon
Kylie Taylor
National Engineering Honor Society 2025-2026
Tau Beta Pi
Dr. Abraham M. Lenhoff, Faculty Advisor
Georgia Angeletakis, President
Anoushka Buddhikot, Vice President