Faculty Awards and Honors
2011-2012

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

  • James Abbas, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • David Frakes, National Science Foundation CAREER Award; IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Faculty Award; 2012 ASU Faculty Women’s Association Outstanding Mentor Award; 2012 SBHSE Professor of the Year
  • Michael Caplan, Jeanette Wilkins Award for best basic science paper at the Musculoskeletal Infection Society meeting
  • Stephen Helms Tillery, Centennial Professor honoree
  • Vincent Pizziconi, President Award for Innovation as a member of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Clinical Trials Advisory Board

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

  • Gail-Joon Ahn, Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor
  • Winslow Burleson, James Chen Best Paper Award (with Kurt VanLehn)
  • Kasin Candan, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Karam Catha, Best Paper Award, IEEE Symposium
  • James Collofello, Engineers Week 2012 Outstanding Educator of the Year
  • Subbarao Kambhampati, CSE Best Teacher Award
  • Jing Li, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • Huan Liu, IEEE Fellow; PAKDD Distinguished Contributions Award at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Pitu Mirchandani, A. Alan B. Pritsker Outstanding IE Teacher Award
  • Aviral Shrivastava, Best Researcher – junior faculty
  • Dan Shunk, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Kurt VanLehn, James Chen Best Paper Award
  • Kelly Wilkerson, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Guoliang Xue, IEEE Fellow; Best Paper Award, ORPA; Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc & Sensor Systems; Best Paper Award, IEEE Globecom 2011 Communications and Systems Symposium

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

  • Yu Cao, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Chaitali Chakrabarti, IEEE Fellow; Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Jennifer Blain Christen, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Lawrence Clark, Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor
  • Michael Goryll, National Science Foundation CAREER Award; Fulton Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
  • Gerald Heydt, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Keith Holbert, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Lina Karam, 2012 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award in High Volume Manufacturing
  • Dieter Schroder, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Junshan Zhang, IEEE Fellow
  • Yong-Hang Zhang, Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor

School for Engineering of Matter Transport and Energy

  • James Adams, Fellow of ASM International –The Materials Information Society
  • Ron Adrian, Tewksbury Fellowship from the University of Melbourne
  • Jean Andino, Fulbright U.S. Scholar award
  • Aditi Chattopadhyay, Best Paper, American Ceramic Society
  • Nik Chawla, Fulton Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Peter Crozier, Fellow of Microscopy Society of America
  • Lenore Dai, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Joe Davidson, Charles Kettering Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Hanqing Jiang, International Journal of Plasticity Young Researcher Award
  • Jerry Y.S. Lin, Regents Professor, Distinguished Visiting Professorship from the University of Minnesota
  • Pedro Peralta, Neutron Award, Thermal Mention from the Advanced Test Reactor National User Science Facility
  • B.L. Ramakrishna, Tooker Professor
  • Veronica Santos, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Kiran Solanki, 2011 Light Metals Magnesium Best Paper Award, the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

  • Soyoung Ahn, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • Brad Allenby, President’s Professor; Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics
  • Samuel Ariaratnam, 2012 Trenchless Technology Person of the Year
  • Brad Allenby, 2012 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics
  • G. Edward Gibson, Jr., appointed to the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE)
  • Paul Johnson, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Edward Kavazanjian, Karl Terzaghi Award (ASCE)
  • Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Phoenix Business Journal’s 2012 “Forty Under 40” list recognizing young leaders in the metropolitan area
  • Amy Landis, Carnegie Science Award, Tooker Professor
  • Barzin Mobasher, Best Paper, Japan Concrete Institute
  • T. Agami Reddy, ASHRAE Technical Paper Award
  • Bruce Rittmann, IWA Fellow and Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Cliff Schexnayder, ASCE Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award for Education
  • Kenneth Sullivan, ASCE 2012 Leadership and Management in Engineering-Best Feature Article Award, Top 5% Teaching Award
  • Paul Westerhoff, AZ Water Association 2012 Nathan Burbank Environmental Educator Award