Faculty & Staff Awards and Honors

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Awards and honors earned by faculty and staff of the College of Engineering and Knowlton School of Architecture from February through June 2014. 

17th Annual College of Engineering Faculty Awards Honorees
17th Annual College of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Awards honorees

17th Annual College of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Awards. The 2014 honorees are:

Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education: Marcelo Dapino, MAE
Clara M. and Peter L. Scott Faculty Award: Joseph Heremans, MAE
Stanley E. Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education: 
Ralph L. Boyer Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Innovation: Frank Croft, CEGE
"Building Bridges" Excellence Award: Douglas Kniss, College of Medicine
Charles E. MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching: Kyle Ezell, KSA
David C. McCarthy Engineering Teaching Award: Sandip Mazumder, MAE
Faculty Diversity Excellence Award: Rebecca Dupaix, MAE
Faculty Mentoring Award: Jose Castro, ISE; and Ness Shroff, CSE
Honda-OSU Partnership Award: Rick Gildow, Transportation Research Center
Innovators Award: John Lannutti, MSE
Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Awards: Gil Bohrer, CEGE; and Peter Curtis, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology

Lumley Research Awards:
Lei Cao, MAE; Jason Dreyer, MAE; Eylem Ekici, ECE; Emre Ertin, ECE; Liang-Shih Fan, CBE; Samir Ghadiali, BME; Simge Kucukyavuz, ISE; Michael Mills, MSE; Rabi Mishalani, CEGE; Michael Sumption, MSE; Jeffrey Sutton, MAE; Radu Teodorescu, CSE; and Stephen Turk, KSA 

Additional awards and honors

Hojjat Adeli, professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, was named a Fellow of the American Neurological Association.

Jeff Barton, senior design engineer for the aerospace research center, received the College of Engineering’s 2014 Outstanding Support of Research Activities Award.

Katherine Bennett, assistant professor of landscape architecture and Karen Lewis, assistant professor of architecture, were recognized by the Sphinx Senior Class Honorary for their contributions to undergraduate education.

Paul Berger, professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics, received the 2014 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from the Franklin County Chapter of the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers. 

Beth Blostein, associate professor of architecture, and Kimberly Burton, assistant professor-clinical of city and regional planning, were awarded 2014 Engagement Impact Grants from The Ohio State University. Blostein’s proposal, “Bold Booths: A New Strategy to Engage Columbus and its Infrastructures,” was awarded a $60,000 grant, while Burton’s proposal, “Ghana Sustainable Change Program,” received $45,000.

Nick Breckenridge, master’s program administrator for mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the College of Engineering’s 2014 Exemplary Service to Students Award.

Katie Bush-Glenn, academic advisor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, was elected STEM Advising Commission Chair for the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA).

Carlos Castro, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, received a $408,000 National Science Foundation's Early Career Development award (CAREER) for his research proposal, "A Molecular Force Sensor for Single Molecule Studies of Cellular Force Application."

Jeff Chalmers, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received the 2014 Cell Culture Engineering Award from Engineering Conferences International (ECI), which recognizes contributions to the cell culture field.

Jen-Ping Chen, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was selected to participate in the 2014 NASA Glenn Faculty Fellowship Program (NGFFP)

Kristi Cheramie, associate professor of landscape architecture, was a grand prize winner in the 2013 Unbuilt Visions competition for her entry, “Coastal Caretaker.” The competition awards excellence in art, architectural and design projects that remain unbuilt.

Yuejie Chi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical informatics, received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities organization.

Glenn Daehn, Fontana Professor in materials science and engineering, will reprise his role as director of the Ohio Manufacturing Institute.

Jennifer Evans-Cowley, associate dean for academic affairs and administration and professor of city and regional planning, received a 2014 Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award from The Ohio State University. She also received the American Planning Association’s 2014 Chapter Presidents Council Leadership Award for Chapter Professional Development Officer.

Martin Feinberg, Richard M. Morrow Chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received The Ohio State University’s 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Hamish Fraser, professor of materials science engineering, received the Microanalysis Society’s Presidential Science Award for contributions to the field of microanalysis.

Datta Gaitonde, John Glenn Chair Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Ohio Research Scholar, and graduate student Logan Riley were awarded an Air Force Research Laboratory/Dayton Area Graduate Studies Institute Student-Faculty Research Fellowship.

Dorota A. Grejner-Brzezinska, professor and chair of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, was elected a 2014 Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN)

James Gregory, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was selected to be a 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar.

Bernadette Hanlon, assistant professor of city and regional planning, published a new book, Global Migrations: The Basics (Routledge), with collaborator Thomas J. Vicino, associate professor of political science at Northeastern University.

Joel Johnson, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received a $3 million, three-year grant from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate to develop technology that can determine temperatures deep under Greenland’s ice sheet from airplanes and potentially spacecraft.

Jun Liu, associate professor of biomedical engineering and ophthalmology, received a $5,000 2014 CEOS Connect Award from Project CEOS at Ohio State.

Dan Mendelsohn, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected to a three-year term to the University Senate in which he will represent the College of Engineering starting fall semester 2014.

Randy Moses, associate dean for research and professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected chair of the Engineering Research Council of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).

Shaurya Prakash, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is co-author of textbook, Nanofluidics and Microfluidics Systems and Application, which was recently published by Elsevier. He also received a Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award at the 18th Annual Denman Undergraduate Research Forum.

Luis Rademacher, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, was honored with the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, for his research, “Transforming data analysis via new algorithms for feature extraction. “

Cynthia Roberts, professor of biomedical engineering and ophthalmology, was named to The Ophthalmologist magazine’s Power List 2014 of the 100 most influential people in ophthalmology.

Kubilay Sertel, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, Georgios Trichopoulos, post-doctoral researcher in the College of Engineering, won the Inspiration Award from Electronics Products magazine in recognition of their invention of a camera that can see through practically any material. The article about their invention was one of the most read articles on ElectronicsProducts.com  in 2013.

Ness Shroff, Ohio Eminent Scholar Chaired Professorship of Networking and Communications, received the 2014 INFOCOM Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) for his seminal contributions to scheduling and resource allocation in wireless networks. 

Ramteen Sioshansi, associate professor of integrated systems engineering, was appointed to the U. S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee by U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz.

Robert Siston, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received The Ohio State University’s 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was also named to Columbus Business First's 2014 Class of "Forty Under 40," recognizing up-and-coming professionals.

Carrie Stein, coordinator- grant funds for computer science and engineering, received a 2014 Distinguished Staff Award from The Ohio State University and the 2014 Outstanding Service Award from the College of Engineering.

Charles K. Toth, research professor of civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, was elected 2014 vice president of ASPRS, the Imaging and Geospatial Information Society.

John Volakis, professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the 2014 Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Antenna and Propagation Society's Distinguished Achievement Award for his "game-changing contributions to computational electromagnetics, radar scattering and antennas, and for educational leadership and service to the electromagnetics community.”

DeLiang Wang, professor of computer science and engineering, was recognized for exceptional achievement in his field with a 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award from The Ohio State University.

David Williams, Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean’s Chair and dean of the College of Engineering, was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Electorate Nominating Committee (ENC) of the Section on Engineering and received the ASM International Rocky Mountain Chapter's Charles S. Barrett Silver Medal for contributions to the field of metallurgy.

Jacques Zakin, professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering, received a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation's Senior Scientist Mentor Program award of $20,000 for drag reduction research.

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