Faculty and Staff Awards
2021-22 Awards
Employee Recognition Award
- Shirley Chessman - Recognized for her contribution to student success.
2020-21 Awards
Outstanding Service Award
- Daven Henze - Leadership efforts in the undergrad program through the pandemic.
- Janet Tsai - Leadership with the DEI movement.
- Yifu Ding - Leadership on the personnel committee, which tackled the most cases ever last year.
Outstanding Undergraduate Educators
- Daria Kotys-Schwartz and Shalom Ruben - Recognized for their work in the class room and for their efforts to keep project-based learning in the curriculum, during a mostly remote year.
Outstanding Graduate Educator
- Peter Hamlington - Leadership and for doing a great job with his first time teaching 5020 and Intro to Research.
Outstanding Staff Award
- All staff members
- Each staff member provided excellent work that even went beyond the 'normal' pandemic.
- Two of the ME staff leaders went on parental leave partway through the year. They developed and implemented a plan that continued the ME research programs as an education mission.
- When five staff members left the department, the entire staff, as a team, took on the numerous roles needed to keep the department moving forward with high quality work.
- Hired five new staff members.
Outstanding Research Award
- Mark Borden and Massimo Ruzzene - Recognized for leading extremely productive research groups and producing 10+ papers last year.
Woodward Outstanding Faculty Award
- Shelly Miller - Miller's indoor air quality, COVID transmission research and the amazing service to the campus and society was certainly award worthy.
2019-20 Award Recipients
Outstanding Graduate Educator - Sean Humbert
Outstanding Undergraduate Educator - Derek Reamon
Outstanding Service Award - Daria Kotys-Schwartz
Outstanding Researcher - Shelly Miller
Woodward Outstanding Faculty Award - Rong Long
Outstanding Staff Award - George Carter
2018-19 Award Recipients
Outstanding Staff Award - George Carter
Charles A. Hutchinson Memorial Teaching Award - Jeff Knutsen
2017-18 Award Recipients
Outstanding Undergraduate Educator - Keith Regner & Shalom Ruben
Outstanding Graduate Educator - Mark Rentschler
Outstanding Researcher - Franck Vernerey
Outstanding Service - Julie Steinbrenner
Outstanding Staff - America Palacios
Woodward Outstanding Faculty - Greg Rieker
Distinguished Achievement Award - John Daily