Student Awards and Honors
Table of Contents:
- Undergraduate TA Awards
- Undergraduate Research Awards
- Undergraduate Service Awards
- Senior Design Awards
- Dunipace Outstanding Senior Design Award
Dave & Marsha Meyer Undergraduate Teaching Awards
ECE has about 200 undergraduates who help out in classes as teaching assistants. They hold office hours, help design and grade assignments, and generally keep our classes running smoothly. They are honored in recognition of their extraordinary efforts
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
| Logan Orosco-Murphy | 2025-2026 |
| Emmanuel I Chang | 2025-2026 |
| Tabitha Hibbs | 2025-2026 |
| Mekaeel Iqbal | 2025-2026 |
| Ryan Wans | 2025-2026 |
| Aidan Dannhausen-Brun | 2024-2025 |
| Amit Vardhan Suryadevara | 2024-2025 |
| Dhruv Shah | 2024-2025 |
| Surya Turaga | 2024-2025 |
| Zafeer Reza | 2024-2025 |
| Vickrant Sreekanth | 2023-2024 |
| Zoe Drechsler | 2023-2024 |
| Arpita Rattan | 2023-2024 |
| Yashar Nishaburi | 2023-2024 |
| Mihir Bhandarkar | 2023-2024 |
| Justin Hatter | 2023-2024 |
| Bryston Cotton | 2022-2023 |
| Jonathan Lane | 2022-2023 |
| Nicole Wang | 2022-2023 |
| Kathleen Stevenson | 2022-2023 |
| David Nickel | 2022-2023 |
| Brian Yuan | 2022-2023 |
| Minjun (Jess) Zhang | 2021-2022 |
| Brooklyn Cox | 2021-2022 |
| Kevin Bautista | 2021-2022 |
| Joseph Bushagour | 2021-2022 |
| Xinji (Jimmy) Jiang | 2021-2022 |
| Jonathan Eppele | 2021-2022 |
| Tanner Andrulis | 2020-2021 |
| Jorge Apolo | 2020-2021 |
| Gore Kao | 2020-2021 |
| Vishal Meyappan | 2020-2021 |
| Shristi Saraff | 2020-2021 |
| Enes Shaltami | 2020-2021 |
Undergraduate Research Awards
Purdue ECE runs the largest research program of any School at Purdue, and undergraduates play key roles in our research agenda. These students design and run experiments, write papers, present results, and support our top 10-nationwide program. Recently titled the Amit & Rashee Rohatgi Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award, these honors recognize the top undergraduate researchers, as measured by drive and accomplishment.
| Recipient | Year |
|---|---|
| Arjun Gupte | 2025-2026 |
| Michael Xianzhe Zhang | 2025-2026 |
| Aniket Chatterjee | 2024-2025 |
| Zachary Au | 2024-2025 |
| Adam Piaseczny | 2023-2024 |
| Kyle Robinson | 2023-2024 |
| Darren Wu | 2022-2023 |
| Xinyu Wang | 2022-2023 |
| David Nickel | 2021-2022 |
| Efe Barlas | 2021-2022 |
| Vishnu Banna | 2020-2021 |
| Tyler Fedrizzi | 2020-2021 |
Undergraduate Service Awards
Through organizations such as the ECE Student Society and HKN, Purdue undergraduates provide camaraderie, advice, tutoring, mentoring, and coffee and donuts to the ECE community. This award recognizes students who have performed extraordinary service to the School over the year.
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Jash Pola | 2025-2026 |
| Chelsie Rayl | 2025-2026 |
| Celine Lu | 2025-2026 |
| Noah Rediker | 2024-2025 |
| Chinwendu Zachariah Ayogu | 2024-2025 |
| Aidan Prendergast | 2023-2024 |
| Denae Galloway | 2022-2023 |
| Sara Hui | 2021-2022 |
| Sam Dlott | 2020-2021 |
Senior Design Awards
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Autonomous plant growing station: Alison McClow, Gunner Imel, Nicholas Saint, Ruth Oliva Rodriguez | 2025-2026 |
| Farnsworth Fusor system: Ali Afrose, Leon Engle, Christopher Campos, Carson Wright, Chinwendu Ayogu | 2025-2026 |
| Central supervisor system for SES network: Neil Agrawal, Blas Aramburu, Hunter Biggs, Alyssa Brewer, Luis Diaz Granada, Chase Grimm, Anteo Jafari, Rochelle Xue | 2025-2026 |
| Smart GPS collar for pet tracking: Matyas Kubon, Evelyn McCarthy, Julia Spihlman, Alex Valdes | 2025-2026 |
| AI-powered iOS application to detect parking spaces around Purdue: Giovanni de Geronimo, Ryan Jordan, Trent Seaman, Ryken Adams-Barnes | 2025-2026 |
| High-fidelity, low-cost, plasma discharge tweeter speaker system: Sydney Belk, Nicholas Ganino, Yashar Nishaburi, Connor Powell | 2025-2026 |
| Karaoke-inspired language learning application: Parthiv Shaji, Darin Tsai, and Haddy Alchaer | 2024-2025 |
| AI-powered bed assistant for medical professionals: Sam Wong, Parthiv Patel, and Andy Lam | 2024-2025 |
| Microcontroller-based edge computing cluster: Akshath Ravikiran, Aneesh Poddutur, Gautam Nambiar, and Gokulkrishnan Harikrishnan | 2024-2025 |
| Purdubik's Cube: Matthew Patrohay, Aden Hurd, Junpei Ota, and Alex Berta | 2024-2025 |
| Translating glasses: Alfred Barandearan Gutierrez, Emery C. Bredemeyer, Rohit Lala, and Benjamin C. Miller | 2024-2025 |
| FPGA-based tensor processing unit: Dan Gui, Fan Jing Hoon, Ann Zi Lau, and Marty K. Martin | 2024-2025 |
| Low-cost AI-based image generation service: Pranav Chintareddy and Brock Holman | 2023-2024 |
| Atlas Sentinel: Ben Taylor, Adi Bhatnagar, Faaiz Memon, and Ali Shah | 2023-2024 |
| Magnetohydrodynamic Watercraft: Joshua Hanback, Gergo Petruska, Michael Ferconio, and Lance Li | 2023-2024 |
| Smart Air Hockey Table: Alan Chung Ma, William Dobert, Trevor Moorman, and Benjamin Owen | 2023-2024 |
| Hardware-Emulated NES: Antonio Butera, Grant Daniel, Aidan Prendergast, and Eric Rodenkirch | 2023-2024 |
| Project Arbr: Gabrille Whitis, Benjamin Pemberton, and Hugo Day | 2022-2023 |
| Project R.A.C.H.E.L.: James Hubbard, Micah Morefield, Jack Myers, and Bartosz Stoppel | 2022-2023 |
| It's Called (Car) Soccer: Vaishakh Deshpande, Aaryan Garg, Justin Qualley, and Peter Sperry | 2022-2023 |
| Guitar Multi-FX Pedal: David Nickel, Henry Oo, John Ramthun, and Michael Scirocco | 2022-2023 |
| Real Time Health Tracker: Celia Parker, Jack Detweiler, Lucas Brookes, and Juan Carlos Guadiano | 2022-2023 |
Dunipace Outstanding Senior Design Award
| Name | Year |
|---|---|
| Aaron Sandlin | 2024-2025 |
| Ben Dawes | 2024-2025 |
| Kham Nom | 2024-2025 |
| Nick Hofer | 2024-2025 |