Faculty awards and honors
2019-2020
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
- Barbara Smith NSF CAREER Award
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
- Gail-Joon Ahn Distinguished Paper Award – USENIX Security
- Heni Ben Amor Top 5% Teaching Award
- Ajay Bansal Top 5% Teaching Award
- Rida Bazzi Top 5% Teaching Award
- K. Selçuk Candan Teaching Excellence Award
- Charles Colbourn Stanton Medal – Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications; Top 5% Teaching Award
- Adam Doupé Distinguished Paper Award – USENIX Security
- Adolfo Escobedo Top 5% Teaching Award
- Stephanie Forrest IEEE Security and Privacy Test-of-Time Award; Outstanding Regional Faculty Advisor of the Western Region
- Stephanie Gil Sloan Research Fellowship
- Robert Heinrichs Top 5% Teaching Award
- Feng Ju Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer – Society of Manufacturing Engineers; IISE Outstanding Regional Faculty Advisor of the Western Region
- Subbarao Kambhampati Fellow – Association for Computing Machinery
- Ariane Middel NSF CAREER Award
- Sethuraman Panchanathan Director of the National Science Foundation
- Siddharth Srivastava NSF CAREER Award
- Sarma Vrudhula National Academy of Inventors Senior Member
- Teresa Wu IISE Fellow
- Hao Yan IISE Transaction Best Paper Award on Quality and Reliability Engineering; IEEE CASE Best Conference Paper Award
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
- Bertan Bakkaloglu Top 5% Teaching Award; 2020 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT–S) Tina Quach Outstanding Service Award
- Mariana Bertoni Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor
- Jennifer Blain Christen Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor
- Chaitali Chakrabarti Top 5% Teaching Award
- Gautam Dasarathy Top 5% Teaching Award
- Ahmed Ewaisha Top 5% Teaching Award
- Michael Goryll Top 5% Teaching Award
- Gerald T. Heydt Grand Award Judge for the 2019 Intel Science and Engineering Science Fair; Honorary doctorate, Ph.D. Honoris Causa, Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti, Bucharest, Romania
- Zachary Holman IEEE Stuart R. Wenham Young Professional Award
- Richard King Top 5% Teaching Award
- Jennifer Kitchen NSF CAREER Award; Top 5% Teaching Award
- Michael Kozicki Joseph C. Palais Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award
- Robert LiKamWa NSF CAREER Award; Top 5% Teaching Award
- Ying-Cheng Lai Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)
- Sule Ozev Best Paper Award, IEEE European Test Symposium
- Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola 2020 IEEE Phoenix Section ”Outstanding Contribution to Promoting Women in Engineering,”
- Stephen Phillips 2020 IEEE Vice President, Educational Activities
- Christ Richmond 2020 IEEE Fellowship
- Andreas Spanias Top 5% Teaching Award; Best Student Paper Award IEEE IISA 2020 (co-author/advisor and project PI); Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2019.
- Dragica Vasileska 2019 IEEE Fellow
- Vijay Vittal Regents Professor; Member of Iowa State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Inaugural Hall of Fame; IEEE Power and Energy Society, Prize Paper Award
- Yang Weng Second Place in the RTE International Competition; Centennial Award, Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA); Outstanding IEEE Young Professional Award, IEEE Phoenix Section, Phoenix; Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate School; Best Paper Award, IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference, Beijing; Best Paper PresentationAward, North American Power Symposium
- Yu Yao DARPA Young Faculty Award
- Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh DARPA Young Faculty Award
- Yanchao Zhang 2019 IEEE Fellow
- Yuji Zhao Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE); MIT TR 35 China Award
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
- Jean Andino APS/Victoria Foundation Dr. William Yslas Velez Outstanding STEM Award
- Werner Dahm Top 5% Teaching Award
- Lenore Dai Top 5% Teaching Award
- Cody Friesen Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention
- Hyunglae Lee Top 5% Teaching Award
- Jerry Lin North American Membrane Society Fellows; Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Membrane Science
- Ryan Milcarek Top 5% Teaching Award
- Brent Nannenga NSF CAREER Award; Burton Medal
- Alexandra Navrotsky Distinguished Life Membership – The American Ceramic Society; Jan Czochralski Award
- Yulia Peet NSF CAREER Award
- Kiran Solanki Top 5% Teaching Award
- Sefaattin Tongay Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE); Top 5% Teaching Award; Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher Award
- Sze Zheng Yong NSF CAREER Award
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
- Samuel Ariaratnam U.S. National Academy of Construction member; Excellence in Pipelines Award (UESI); International Society for Trenchless Technology Gold Medal
- Otakuye Conroy-Ben Technical Excellence Award – American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
- James Ernzen PENTA Building Group Professor for Construction
- Elham Fini ASCE Fellow; WTS NC Triangle Innovative Transportation Solution Award; Seventh Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium
- Margaret Garcia NSF CAREER Award
- Sergio Garcia-Segura ISE Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry
- George “Edd” Gibson ASCE Distinguished Member
- Rolf Halden J.M. Kaplan Innovation Prize
- Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown Distinguished Alumni Award from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
- Anthony Lamanna ASCE Editor’s Choice Award
- Rebecca Muenich New Faces of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers; Arkansas Academy of Biological and Agricultural Engineers; NAE U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
- Francois Perreault Seventh Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium
- Paul Westerhoff 2020 American Water Works Association A.P. Black Award
The Polytechnic School
- Daniel Aukes NSF CAREER Award
- Bruno Azeredo NSF CAREER Award
- Samantha Brunhaver NSF CAREER Award
- Yan Chen SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award; SAE Forest R. McFarland Award; DSCC Automotive and Transportation Systems Best Paper Award
- Scott Danielson ASEE Isadore T. Davis Award for Excellence in Collaboration of Engineering Education and Industry
- Penny Dolin Adobe Education Leader
- Kiril Hristovski Top 5% Teaching Award
- Shawn Jordan ECEDHA Technology Integration Award
- Troy McDaniel Top 5% Teaching Award
- Marc O’Brien Top 5% Teaching Award
- Wenlong Zhang NSF CAREER Award