Awards and recognition given to and available to win by Fulton Schools faculty and staff.
Fulton Schools Professor Samuel Ariaratnam will have a larger overall role in guiding those efforts as a new member of the board of governors of the institute, which is part of the American Society of Civil Engineers, or ASCE. He is one of two new governors recently elected to the board, along with a new president-elect.
The Vice Dean for Research and Innovation (VDRI) Office is pleased to announce 12 awardees for the 2021 Fulton Schools of Engineering (FSE) Strategic Interest Seed Funding Program: Working Collaboratively to Meet Future Needs. The response to this year’s seed funding initiative was impressive with a variety of topics and ideas presented by faculty across FSE…
Quality and innovative instruction are top priorities of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. We recognize excellence in instruction by awarding an annual Teaching Excellence Award and through selection to our Top 5% Teachers List. Student nominations and feedback are reviewed by a faculty committee in determining these honors. This year’s recipient of the…
Daniel E. Rivera, a professor of chemical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, has been named a 2021 Society of Behavioral Medicine Fellow. The Society of Behavioral Medicine, or SBM, is a multidisciplinary organization of clinicians, educators and scientists who are improving knowledge and applications in the areas of human behavior, health…
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, or AIChE, organizes special sessions during its annual national meeting to honor chemical engineers for significant contributions to the field. In 2020, Arizona State University Regents Professor Jerry Lin was honored for his lifetime dedication and career contributions to the fundamentals and application of membrane technology. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AIChE…
EnKoat, an advanced materials venture founded by ASU alumni Aashay Arora and Matthew Aguayo, recently won a $225,000 National Science Foundation Phase I Small Business Innovation Research award, a highly selective seed funding program known as SBIR.
The Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (DII@FSE) Task Force selected five awardees to receive funding under the DII@FSE Seed Funding Program.
Charles Colbourn is the recipient of the 2019 Stanton Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, or ICA, for his lifetime contributions to the discipline of combinatorics. The medal recognizes Colbourn’s efforts in support of combinatorial design theory through advocacy, outreach, service and teaching.
Brent Nannenga, an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, has been awarded the Burton Medal Biological by the Microscopy Society of America for his work on the development of microcrystal electron diffraction also known as MicroED. “This award means a lot to me because the recognition helps to show…
Feng Ju, an assistant professor of industrial engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, was recently named an Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer by SME (formerly called the Society of Manufacturing Engineers).
Last year, in January 2019, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering launched a new initiative focusing on diversity and inclusion — DII@FSE — intended to dedicate focus to a topic that is a core value to the Fulton Schools and ASU as exemplified in the university charter. As part of the launch, a task force of…
Daniel Rivera, a professor of chemical engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, was recently designated as an IEEE CSS Distinguished Member. He received the award on December 12 during the 2019 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Nice, France. The award recognized Rivera’s outstanding long-term service to the Control…
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Schools alumnus Amanda Kerr recently received a prestigious international honor for her engineering and construction achievements. Kerr was named the 2019 Young Tunneler of the Year by International Tunneling Association as part of the organization’s annual awards program for “ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunneling and underground space…
Jinia Roy, a recent ASU graduate, was selected as one of five winners of the IEEE Power Electronics Society Prize Ph.D. (P3 Talk) Video Competition. She was the only student from the U.S. to receive the award. The PELS Prize Ph.D. Thesis (P3 Talk) Video Competition is a prestigious and highly promoted international competition organized by…
Samuel T. Ariaratnam, professor and program chair of construction engineering in the Del E. Webb School of Construction, was recently awarded the International Society for Trenchless Technology Gold Medal. He is the seventh person, and second from the U.S., to earn the highest honor in trenchless technology spanning ISTT’s 33-year history. The award recognizes individuals who…