External Award Winners
September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025
Rakesh Agrawal
Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Dionysios Aliprantis
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rose Prabin Ambrose
Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Babak Anasori
Reilly Rising Star Associate Professor of Materials and Mechanical Engineering
Arezoo Ardekani
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Santokh Badesha
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Anil Bajaj
Alpha P. Jamison Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Alexandra Boltasseva
Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Barrett Caldwell
Professor of Industrial Engineering
James Canino
Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Deva Chan
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Nikhilesh Chawla
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering
Jie Chen
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Yaobin Chen
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gary Cheng
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Mung Chiang
Purdue President and Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Chiu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Alex Chortos
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Rebecca Ciez
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering
Melba M Crawford
Nancy Uridil and Frank Bossu Distinguished Professor in Civil Engineering
William Crossley
Uhrig & Vournas Head and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Edward Delp
Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shawn Ehlers
Clinical Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Audeen Fentiman
Crowley Family Professor Emerita of Engineering Education
Carolin Frueh
Harold DeGroff Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
James Gibert
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Nadia Gkritza
Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering & Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Craig Goergen
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Christopher Goldenstein
Avrum and Joyce Gray Rising Star Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Jay Gore
Reilly Professor in Combustion Engineering
Rajamani Gounder
R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering
Rao Govindaraju
Bowen Engineering Head of Civil Engineering and Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering
Leopold Green
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Vijay Gupta
Elmore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ayman Habib
Thomas A. Page Professor of Civil Engineering
John E Haddock
Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
Carol Handwerker
Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering & Professor of Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering
Sogand Hasanzadeh
Assistant Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
Neera Jain
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Joseph Jewell
John Bogdanoff Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Nicole Key
Avrum and Joyce Gray Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Fiona Kolbinger
Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Kawai Kwok
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Samuel Labi
Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
Chi Hwan Lee
Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Mechanical Engineering
Keith Legrand
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Haitong Li
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lingxi Li
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robert Lucht
Ralph & Bettye Bailey Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mark Lundstrom
Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Aravind Machiry
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joyce Main
Interim Head and Professor of Engineering Education
Ajay Malshe
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Esteban Marinero-Caceres
Professor of Materials Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ray Mentzer
Professor of Engineering Practice in Chemical Engineering
Venkatesh Merwade
Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
Terrence Meyer
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Jeffrey Miller
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Jason Morphew
Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Partha Mukherjee
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Zoltan Nagy
Arvind Varma Professor of Chemical Engineering
Jitesh Panchal
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Guillermo Paniagua-Perez
Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Kinam Park
Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Sunghee Park
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Steven Pekarek
Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer, III Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Brandon Pitts
Elliott Sigal Rising Star Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Vilas Pol
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Marshall Porterfield
Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Li Qiao
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Anand Raghunathan
Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gintaras Reklaitis
Burton and Kathryn Gedge Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Fabio Ribeiro
William Nicholas and Elizabeth Holstein Delgass Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Timothy Rogers
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michael Sangid
Reilly Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Professor of Materials Engineering
Sivaranjani Seetharaman
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Vladimir Shalaev
Bob and Anne Burnett Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Behzad Sharif
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lu Su
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ramaswamy Subramanian
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Michael Titus
Associate Professor of Materials Engineering
Vikas Tomar
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Satish Ukkusuri
Hubert and Audrey Kleasen Professor in Civil Engineering
Andrea Vacca
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Amit H Varma
Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering
Maria Mirian Velay Lizancos
Associate Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
Pavlos Vlachos
St. Vincent Health Professor of Healthcare Engineering
Nien-Hwa Wang
Norman and Jane Li Professor of Chemical Engineering
Ziran Wang
Assistant Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
David Warsinger
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Justin Weibel
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Dana Weinstein
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wenzhuo Wu
Professor of Industrial Engineering
Peide Ye
Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yuehwern Yih
Tompkins Professor of Industrial Engineering
Jeffrey Youngblood
Professor of Materials Engineering
Huidan Yu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Wenbin Yu
Milton Clauser Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Kejie Zhao
Professor of Mechanical Engineering