Awards
Faculty & Staff Awards
Dr. Allen Garner is the recipient of the 2016 NPSS Early Achievement Award "For contributions to theoretical and experimental studies of the biological effects of electric pulses and plasmas and to nuclear training, education, and maintenance". This award recognizes outstanding achievements to any of the fields of nuclear and plasma sciences within the first ten years of an individual's career.
Dr. Miltiadis Alamaniotis, Dr. Robert Bean and Dr. Valeryi Sizyuk are the recipients of the 2015 Paul C. Zmola Scholar of Nuclear Engineering Award.
Dr. Hany Abdel-Khalik was a Co-Author for the best paper/presentation in Reactor Physics Division (RPD) for the ANS 2015 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Allen Garner was granted a patent for "Platelet Activation Using Long Electric Field Pulses" Patent No. 9,078,862 B2, July 14, 2015, V.B. Neculaes, A. Caiafa, B. D-L Lee, N. E. LaPlante, A. S. Torres, and A.L Garner.
Dr. Takashi Hibiki received the 2015 JSME Best Paper Award.
Dr. Won Sik Yang served as the General Chair for the Fourth International Technical Review Meeting for Prototype Gen-IV Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor Development in Korea, which was held July 8-10, 2015, KAERI, Daejeon, Korea.
Dr. Won Sik Yang was invited to be Technical Co-Chair of the M&C 2017 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering of American Nuclear Society, which will be held in April 16-20, 1027, Jeju, Korea.
Dr. Prasoon Diwakar was announced as the winner in the 2015 CappSci Inventors Program.
Dr. Prasoon Diwakar was granted patent March 3, 2015 for "Method and apparatus for aerosol analysis using optical spectroscopy" Patent No. US 8970840 B2, Pramod Kulkarni, Prasoon Diwakar.
Toni Horsley, Faculty Assistant/Planner was accepted in 2015 into the two year ACE Program at Purdue University.
David Storz received a Purdue BRAVO Award in 2015.
Student Awards
Anastassiya Suslova received the 2016 Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Liam Ochoa, Seth Voegele and Kevin Stahl are the 2015 recipients of the Clikeman Scholarship.
Keyou Mao and Michael Bilyeu are the 2015 recipients of the Otto F. Kraus and Jenny E. Kraus Scholarship.
Andrew Adelsperger, Patrick Skrodzki and Payson Dieffenbach are the 2015 recipients of the Thomas A. Plein Scholarship.
Corey Ohneck and Abhijit Jassem are the 2015 recipients of the George W. and Mabel E. Anderson Nuclear Engineering Scholarship.
Russell Brayfield received of the 2014-2015 Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award.
Purdue NE Team took 1st Place at 2014 ANS Student Design Competition.
Eric Acosta was selected "Best research abstract" at 2015 Purdue Undergraduate Symposium.
Jason Becker and Patrick Skrodzki where chosen as 2015 Society for Applied Spectroscopy Undergraduate Student Award winners.
Russell Brayfield received 2nd place in the Student Poster Competition during the 2015 BioEM Conference.
Stylianos Chatzidakis was the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Researchers Award.
Stylianos Chatzidakis and Dr. Miltos Alamaniotis won Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence Systems and Applications 2014.
Phil Forsberg was the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Service Scholarship.
Alex Hagen helped with Textbooks for Liberia.
Bryan Sims was the recipient of the 2015 Magoon Excellence in Teaching Award.
Patrick Skrodzki and Jason Becker, both NE undergraduate students traveled to Beijing, China to present their PIRE research at the 8th International Conference on LIBS in September 2014 and were awarded the LIBS prize for Best Poster.