KU Engineering Recognizes 2024-2025 Award Winners
The School of Engineering recognized award winners and greeted new employees from the past year at a reception on September 10. Here's a rundown of the award winners and faculty awarded named professorships:
Miller Professional Award for Research
Masoud Kalantari, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Miller Professional Award for Service:
Jie Han, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Sharp Professorship: Ted Peltier, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Bellows Faculty Scholars
Will Collins, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Morteza Hashemi, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Cheng Huang, Aerospace Engineering
Miller Faculty Scholars
Ana Morais, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Hongyang Sun, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Candan Tamerler, Mechanical Engineering
Staff Excellence Awards
Daniel Gomez-Garcia, CReSIS
Dan Hastert, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Emma Herrman, Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Terri Hurtado, Engineering Administration
Wendy Karpowitz, Mechanical Engineering
Anne Lowder, KU Transportation Center
Christopher Lyon, CEBC
Meredith Morris Whyte, Student Success
Cassie Nix, Advising
Tiffany Oquendo, EARTH/WISE
Brad Schroeder, Aerospace Engineering
Ashraf Uddin, I2S
Tanner Willbanks, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Named Professors
Distinguished Professor
Erik Perrins, EECS: University Distinguished Professor
Mark Shiflett, J.L. Constant Distinguished Professor
Professors
Alan Allgeier, CPE: Don W. Green Professor
Rémy Lequesne, CEAE: Black and Veatch Professor
Fengjun Li, EECS: Deane E. Ackers Professor
Jian Li, CEAE: Deane E. Ackers Professor
Bo Luo, EECS: H.J. and Joan O. Wertz Professor
Steve Schrock, CEAE: N.T. Veatch Professor
Scholars
Emily Arnold, AE: J. O. Jones Scholar
Alex Bardas, EECS: Gary Minden Scholar
Elaina Sutley, CEAE: Thomas and Eileen Washburn Scholar
Heechul Yun, EECS: Deane E. Ackers Scholar