In the 2021-2022 academic year, Purdue Engineering faculty received 11 NSF CAREER Awards, three young investigator awards, many technical achievement awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Faculty members and their awards are as follows:

Early Career Awards

NSF CAREER Awards

Xiaoping Bao, Assistant Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Christopher Brinton, Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Somali Chaterji, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Letian Dou, Charles Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

James Gibert, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Harsha Honnappa, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering

Mahdi Hosseini, Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Neera Jain, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Aaron Morris, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Elsje Pienaar, Assistant Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

David Yu, Assistant Professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, and Environmental and Ecological Engineering (by courtesy)

DARPA Young Faculty Award

Deva Chan, Assistant Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

ONR Young Investigator Award

Christopher Brinton, Assistant Professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sensors Young Investigator Award

Chi Hwan Lee, Leslie A. Geddes Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Associate Professor of Materials Engineering (by courtesy)

SENIOR FACULTY AWARDS

Alexandra Boltasseva, Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Materials Engineering (by courtesy): Guggenheim Fellowship

Charles Bouman, Showalter Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering: IEEE’s Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award

Jim Braun, Herrick Professor of Engineering: ASHRAE’s F. Paul Anderson Award

Mung Chiang, Executive Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Purdue University; John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering; and Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering: IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award

Konstantina “Nadia” Gkritza, Professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering: ASCE’s Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award

Sergey Macheret, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics: AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Award

William Oakes, 150th Anniversary Professor of Engineering Education, and Environmental and Ecological Engineering (by courtesy): IFEES’ Duncan Fraser Global Award

Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering: AIChE’s William H. Walker Award

Amit Varma, Karl H. Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering: ASCE’s Alfred Noble Prize