2020-21 Engineering Graduate Program Awards
Please take a couple minutes to watch this video from Dr. Dana Weinstein, Associate Dean of Graduate Education, as she congratulates this year’s awardees:
Awards include:
- Magoon Excellence in Teaching Award
- Outstanding Graduate Research Award
- Outstanding Graduate Service Scholarship
- Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
The Purdue University College of Engineering Magoon Awards are given to outstanding teaching assistants and instructors in memory of Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon, who have influenced the lives of many engineering educators through this award. The award is made possible through the generous Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon endowment, and the recipients each receive $2,000 and a certificate. This year's awardees are:
AAE - Divya Bhargava, Suman Chakraborty, Zihao Liang, and Hima Patel
ABE - Eric Kong
BME - Brandon Coventry, Jason Ummel, and Megan Baker
CE - Carlos Moro Martinez, William Pollalis, Jibin Joseph, and Amy Getchell
ChE - Pelin Bulutoglu, Peter Hellwarth
ECE - Chandan Bothra, Hengying Shan, Joseph Thomas, Mai Zhang, Rohan Sarkar, Stanley Scott Dye, Tridib Saha, and V.K. Manam
EEE - Matthew Triebe
ENE - Yi-Chieh Sun and Andrew Robert Roginski
EPICS - Peyman Yousefi Bahambari
IE - Cansu Agrali, Yan Chen, Esmaeil Bahalkeh, and Hamed Asadi
ME - Navneet Goswami, Rohil Jain, Jaehoon Ji, Matthew Meier, Rathziel Roncancio, Rishav Roy, and Prabhu Kumar Venuthurumilli
MSE - Saswat Mishra and Jung-Ting Tsai
NE - Junghyun Bae
The Purdue University College of Engineering Outstanding Service Scholarship Award recognizes the engineering graduate students who provide outstanding service to the graduate student community, the School, the College, and/or the University. Each School nominates one student, and he or she each receives $2,000 and a certificate. This year's recipients are:
AAE - Julio Hernandez
ABE - Kok Zhi Lee
BME - Mazin Hakim
CE - Agustin Quinones
ChE - Wei-Lee Wu
ECE - Rajni Sah
EEE - Ansaarullah Diop
ENE - Justin Major
IE - Maithilee Motlag
ME - Susmita Sarkar
MSE - Robynn-Lynne Paldi
NE - Ryan Drew
The Outstanding Research Award goes to students who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in research through publications, participation in professional organizations, and willingness to mentor others. The recipients of this year's award, worth $2,000 and a certificate, are:
AAE - Xuan Wang
ABE - Tanzeel Rehman
BME - Min Ku Kim
CE - Rih Teng Wu
ChE - Swapnil Deshmukh
ECE - Debayan Das and Soham Saha
EEE - Christian Ley
ENE - David Evenhouse
IE - Rouxing Wang
ME - Prabudhya Chowdhury and Bongjoong Kim
MSE - Di Zhang
In 2020, the College of Engineering established an Outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher Award to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of postdoctoral researchers currently employed in Purdue’s College of Engineering who are pursuing careers in academia or entrepreneurship and innovation. This year's recipient of the $2,000 award is Dr. Siddarth Krishna, a Henson Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in the Purdue Catalysis Center and a researcher in the Gounder Group.
Finally, the graduate students in each School select an Outstanding Faculty Mentor to recognize his or her exceptional mentoring of engineering graduate students. These professors receive an engraved plaque with a personal tribute composed by the students. The graduate students chose the following faculty members to receive this year's award:
AAE - Jonathan Poggie
ABE - John T. Evans IV
BME - Joseph Rispoli
ChE - Rajamani Gounder
CE - Mirian Velay-Lizancos
ECE - Kaushik Roy
EEE - Inez Hua
ENE - Kerrie Douglas
IE - Gary Cheng
MSE - Chelsea Davis
ME - Ivan Christov
Please join us in congratulating all of this year’s recipients for their hard work and dedication to the graduate education community. If you see someone you know on the list, be sure to tell them “Great job & well deserved!”
To see a complete list of current and past award recipients, please visit the CoE Graduate Education Program Awards page.