ME faculty recognized for outstanding scholarly achievements

April 3, 2017

ME faculty members were recognized for their outstanding achievements in teaching and research during the ME Advisory Board meeting on March 31st. The awards included: Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award, Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award, and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.  These faculty awards were established by the ME department in 2015 to motivate and to recognize ME faculty members with a superior record of research and teaching in the department. The 2016 award winners were:

Dr. Shanti Bhushan, ME Assistant Professor, was selected to receive the 2016 Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.  This award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to excellence in teaching, advancing the educational mission of the ME Department, and incorporating innovation in undergraduate and/or graduate teaching.  This award was open to all Instructors, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors in the ME Department.  For more information about Dr. Bhushan, click here.

Dr. Lei Chen, ME Assistant Professor, was selected to receive the Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award.  This award recognizes exceptionally influential research accomplishments by a junior faculty.  The ME Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award was open to all assistant professors in the ME department.  For more information about Dr. Chen, click here.

Dr. Haitham El Kadiri, ME Associate Professor and Coleman-Whiteside Professorship, was selected to receive the Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award. This award recognizes exceptionally influential research accomplishments by a senior faculty and was open to all the associate and full professors in the ME department.  For more information about Dr. El Kadiri, click here.

ME Faculty

From left to right, Dr. Lei Chen, Dr. Shanti Bhushan, and Dr. Haitham El Kadiri.