2019-20 Engineering Graduate Program Awards
This year is no exception, although the traditional celebratory luncheon was canceled due to COVID-19. Since the College was unable to honor the awardees in person, we wanted to bring this personal message of congratulations from Associate Dean of Graduate Education Dr. Dana Weinstein:
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. For 2020, the 44 awardees are:
AAE - Divya Bhargava, Wanxin Jin, Apoorv Maheshwari, Neelakshi Majumdar, and Saurabh Simha
ABE - Ikenna Okekeogbu and Troy Tonner
BME - Michael MacLean, Elizabeth Niedert, and Diorio Tyler
CE - Johnny Condori, Jessica Eisma, Raikhan Tokpatayeva, and Osvaldo Vitali
ChE - Brandon Bolton and Tony Mathew
ECE - Md Faizul Bari, Stanley Richard Doerger, Tulasi R. Haritsa, Guan Zhe Hong, Mingxuan He, Somosmita Mitra, Amritha Prasad, and Steve Rausch
EEE - Tolulope Odimayomi
ENE - Dominik Hauger and Amanda Johnston
EPICS - Subramanian Chidambaram
IE - Cansu Agrali, Hamed Asadi, Rhoann Kerh, Ashwin Padmanabhan, and Marina Sala de Medeiros
ME - Dan Feng, David Neal Halbrooks, Ruixin Li, Tamzidul Mina, Joshua Daniel Pribe, Murtuza Nuruddin Shergadwala, and Akhil Vijay
MSE - Thomas Mann and Sae Matsunaga
Purdue Online - Lixby Diaz
NE - Pola Lydia Lagari
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 - Geoffrey Andrews
ABE - Danielle Winter
BME - Sarah Libring
CE - Amy Getchell
ChE - Aidan Coffey
ECE - Somosmita Mitra
EEE - Renee Obringer
ENE - Hossein Ebrahiminejad
IE - Benjamin Rachunok
ME - Terrell Glenn
MSE - Xin Li Phuah
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 2020 recipients of this award, worth $2,000 and a certificate, are:
AAE - Xuan Wang
ABE - Ethan Hillman
BME - Aya Saleh
CE - Yining Feng
ChE - Jason Bates
ECE - Shaimaa Azzam and Hsuan-Hao Lu
EEE - Debora Maia-Silva
ENE - Hoda Ehsan
IE - Jackie Cha
ME - Veeraraghava Hasti and Yutong Xue
MSE - Xuejing Wang
NE - Amanda Loveless
For the first time, the College of Engineering has 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. The inaugural recipient of the $2,000 award is Dr. Caitlin Proctor, a second-year Lillian Gilbreth Post-Doctoral Fellowship holder. Nominated by Ecological and Environmental Engineering, Proctor has been working collaboratively with the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, the School of Materials Science Engineering, and the School of Biomedical Engineering since she arrived at Purdue in 2018.
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 the 2020 award:
AAE - David Spencer
ABE - William Field
BME - Vitaliy L. Rayz
ChE - Gintaras V. Reklaitis
CE - Luna Lu
ECE - Christopher G. Brinton
EEE - Chad T. Jafvert
ENE - Allison Godwin
IE - Brandon Pitts
MSE - Jeffrey Youngblood
ME - Amy Marconnet
Congratulations to all of this year’s graduate education award recipients! We are proud of your accomplishments and look forward to all of your future contributions.