Engineering Alumni Awards

Nominations

Nominations are now open for the following awards:

Please download the nomination form PDF(s) to your computer and use Adobe Reader to complete them. Completed nomination forms should be submitted to EAA@purdue.edu by May 31.

• Young Engineering Alumnus Award (PDF) - Awarded to a graduate of Purdue’s College of Engineering who is 35 years old or younger who has achieved significant rapid advancement in their chosen field.
• College of Engineering Alumni Loyalty Award (PDF) - Awarded to a graduate of Purdue’s College of Engineering who has demonstrated extraordinary loyalty to Purdue and the College of Engineering.
• Engineering Innovation Award (PDF) - Awarded to a graduate of Purdue’s College of Engineering who has developed a product, idea, or process that has had a significant impact on
  industry or society.

Thank you for your submissions—we look forward to announcing the 2023 recipients this fall.

Past Engineering Alumni Award Recipients

President's Lifetime Award

Year	Awardee
1997	Robert E. Hannemann (BSChE '52)
1998	Robert E. Bateman (BSAE '46)
2000	James Warren Hill (BSME '63)
2000	James F. Schorr (BSChE '54)
2001	Christopher Burke (BSCE '77, MSCE '79, PhD '83)
2002	Robert Bowen (BSCE '62)
2003	Michael Birck (BSEE '60)
2003	William Cordier (BSME '49)

Service Award

Year	Awardee
1997	Richard L. Gross (BSME '47)
1997	Jerome R. Hansen (BSME '48)
1999	Harold Amrine
1999	Edward Barnette Jr. (BSIDE '72)
1999	Arthur Bond (BSEE '68, MSEE '69, PhD '74)
1999	Virginia Booth-Gleghorn (BSIE '91, BA '92)
1999	Ed Coleman (BSME '75)
1999	Fred Cooper (BSEE '74)
1999	Arthur Hansen (BSEE '46, MS '48)
1999	Anthony Harris (BSME '75)
1999	Brian Harris (BSIDE '75)
1999	Stanley Kirtley (BSCE '75)
1999	John Logan Jr. (BSCE '75)
1999	Robert Milton (BSME '72, MSME '73)
1999	George Smith Jr. (BSEE '76)
2000	William E. Smith III (BSChE '69)
2001	Brad Belcher (BSAAE '82)
2001	Barry Effron (BS Metallurgical Engineering '67)
2001	Deborah Grubbe (BSChE '77)
2002	Juan Ernesto de Bedout (BSIE '67, MSIE '68)
2002	Harold Force (BSCE '73, MSCE '74)
2003	David Beering (BSCEE '85, MSEE '87)
2003	Donald Knebel (BSEE '68)
2003	Adel Zakaria (MSIE '70, PhD '73)
2004	Donald J. Orr (BSChE '61, HDR '06)
2003	John Bratt (BSME '65)
2004	Donald L. Menchhofer (BSME '60)
2006	Gbile Adewunmi (BSEE '02, MSECE '03)

Young Alumni Award

Year	Awardee
2012	Dustin Ruh (BSMSE '03)
2013	Daniel Radocaj (BSAAE '00, MSAAE '01)
2014	Stephanie Severance (BSME '06)
2015	Lisa Wichmann (BSME '05)
2016	Ashley Faires (BSAAE '06)
2017	David Helderman (BSAAE '06, MSAAE '09)
2018	Abigail Moyer (BSCE '06)
2019	Murugan Palaniappan (BSAAE '10)
2020	Jessica Traver Ingram (BSME '14, MSME '17)
2021	Sirisha Bandla (BSAAE '11)
2022	Candace Nelson (BSChE ’13)

Loyalty Award

Year	Awardee
2012	Rick Zadoks (BSME '83, MSME '85, PhD '88)
2013	Rick Roberts (BSChE '76)
2014	Dennis Warner (BSAAE '73, MSME '76)
2015	James W. Overman (BSME '80)
2016	Anthony Harris (BSME '75)
2017	Cheryl Cunningham (BSCE '80)
2018	Janet Goings (BSEE '82)
2019	Elmore Rice (BSEE '54)
2020	Stephen Baranyk (BSME '62)
2021	Charles Miller (BSCE '57)
2022	Thomas Malott (BSME ’62)

 

Innovation

Year	Awardee
2019	Stacey Burr (BSIE '84, MSIA '91)
2020	Ujjwal Singh (BSCEE '94)
2021	Michael Schrader (BSME '04)
2022	Brian Underwood (BSMeT ’88)