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The College of Engineering congratulates these members of the Cyclone Engineering community for much-deserved accomplishments.

Named faculty

  • In-Ho Cho, Associate Professor, CCEE: Cerwick Faculty Fellowship
  • Christopher Day, Associate Professor, CCEE: Cerwick Faculty Fellowship
  • Joseph Turner, Professor, AERE: Kirby Gray (Battelle) Chair in Engineering
  • Molly Kozminsky, Assistant Professor, CBE: Vernon Guse Faculty Fellowship
  • Wenzhen Li, Professor, CBE: Manley R. Hoppe Professorship in Chemical Engineering
  • Jennifer Shane, Associate Professor, CCEE: W.A. Klinger Chair for Construction Engineering
  • Andrew Hillier, Professor, CBE: Laurie and Mark Lashier Chair
  • Joseph Charbonnet, Assistant Professor, CCEE: Michael and Denise Mack 2050 Challenge Scholar
  • Timothy Bigelow, Associate Professor, ECpE: Northrop Grumman Professorship in Honor of Fred W. O’Green
  • Aditya Ramamoorthy, Professor, ECpE: John Ryder Professorship in Engineering
  • Ian Schneider, Associate Professor, CBE: Herbert Stiles Faculty Fellowship in Chemical Engineering
  • Matthew Frank, IMSE: C.G. “Turk” and Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

New patents

  • Azadeh Sheidaei: Turnable Stiffness Bond Rod
  • Yee Jher Chan and Nigel Reuel: Position Independent and Long Read Range Resonant Sensor
  • Nigel Reuel: Resonance Frequency Shift Sensors
  • Eric Cochran, R. Christopher Williams, Michael Forrester, Theodore Huisman, and Baker Kuehl: Maintenance Treatments Useful for Improving the Performance of Aged or Brittle Resinous Binders in Paving or Roofing
  • Brent Shanks: Heteroaryl-Thio-Substituted Pyrones
  • Halil Ceylan: Electrically-Conductive Asphalt Concrete Containing Carbon Fibers
  • Cheng Huang: Wireless Power and Voltage Regulation for Wireless Power Transfer Systems
  • Ratnesh Kumar: Cybersecurity Algorithms and Tools for Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion and Industrial Control Systems
  • Robert C. Brown: Biochar Product, Its Use in Fertilizers, and Methods of Making the Biochar
  • Jonathan Claussen: Aersol Jet Printed Flexible Graphiene Circuits for Electrochemical Sensing and Biosensing
  • James Oliver: Simulated Natural Landscape in a Cage-Free Facility to Improve Animal Welfare and Health
  • Iver Anderson: Ultra-High Strength Multiphase High-Entropy Alloys
  • Jun Cui: Feedstock and Heterogeneous Structure for Tough Rare Earth Permanent Magnets and Production; and Fine Grain Structures for Tough Rare Earth Permanent Magnets
  • Steve Martin and Steven Kmiec: Method of Making High Quality Silicon Sulfide
  • Vitalij Percharsky: Low-Force Compressive and Tensile Actuation for Elastaocaloric Heat Pumps

Faculty and staff awards

  • Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research: Alice Alipour, Associate Professor, CCEE
  • Award for Early Achievement in Teaching: Antonio Arenas, Assistant Professor, CCEE
  • Early Achievement in Engineering Advising: Kirsten Hauge, Academic Advisor II, ME
  • Award for Excellence in Foundational Course Teaching: Travis Hosteng, Associate Teaching Professor, CCEE
  • Award for Outstanding New Staff: Andrea Mauton, Business Administrator II, MSE
  • Award for Early Achievement in Research: Siddartha Pathak, Associate Professor, MSE
  • Award for Excellence in Extension and/or Outreach: Marlee Walton, Teaching Professor, CCEE

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