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COE Faculty Awards 2022-23 Announced

02/10/2023

Each year, the College of Engineering honors individual members of its faculty for outstanding contributions to the College, University, and the profession through a series of awards. Four ME faculty members are 2023 recipients.

André Boehman,  Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Walter E. Lay Automotive Laboratory, received the David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award for demonstrated sustained excellence in research and related scholarly activities.

Allen Liu, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering,  received the Monroe-Brown Foundation Service Excellence Award for demonstrated sustained excellence in research and related scholarly activities.

Steven Skerlos, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Rexford E. Hall Innovation Excellence Award. This award recognizes those who have developed a breakthrough technology and demonstrated its transformational potential in engineering practice or the market, taken significant innovation developed, in part, within the College through to market readiness (either through partnership with a commercial enterprise or by starting a company), or taken significant innovations developed, in part, within the College and deployed them towards societal good. This award recognizes entrepreneurial aspects of innovation that fall outside the scope of innovation in basic research, education, and service.

Serife Tol,  Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received the John F. Ullrich Education Excellence Award for demonstrated sustained excellence in curricular development, instruction, and guidance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This includes demonstrated excellence in graduate student supervision, the development of new courses, teaching laboratories, teaching techniques, textbooks, and software, the enhancement of technical communication skills among faculty and students, bringing research into the classroom (leading to skills required for graduate study and research careers), contextual learning (the broader public impact or interdisciplinary implications), and dedication to students, particularly in one-on-one pedagogy.

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