The slide show below features comments by nominators about what made their students or teaching assistants outstanding, followed by photographs from the awards luncheon.

Top picture, from left: Outstanding seniors Meghan Hess, engineering management, and Elisa Duarte, industrial engineering; Larry Head, professor of systems and industrial engineering; and outstanding senior Jill Wynne, systems engineering.

Outstanding Seniors

Matthew Ashton Aerospace Engineering
Nominated by Arvind Raman, academic advisor

Rachel Braun Chemical Engineering
Nominated by Anthony Muscat, professor and department head, and Paul Blowers, University Distinguished Professor

Elisa Duarte Industrial Engineering
Nominated by Young-Jun Son, professor and department head

Ellen Dunn Biosystems Engineering
Nominated by Kitt Farrell-Poe, professor and department head, and Peter Livingston, associate professor

Nathanael Gross Mechanical Engineering
Nominated by Arvind Raman, academic advisor

Diane Haiber Materials Science and Engineering
Nominated by Barrett G. Potter, professor

Brandon Hellman Optical Sciences and Engineering
Nominated by John Koshel, associate dean for academic programs, and Mike Nofziger, professor

Meghan Hess Engineering Management
Nominated by Bob Lepore, program director

Ashlyn Hooten Mining Engineering
Nominated by Moe Momayez, associate professor and associate department head

Patrick Hughes Civil Engineering
Nominated by Achintya Haldar, professor

Brianna Moon Biomedical Engineering
Nominated by Marty Pagel, associate professor

Rachel Powers Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nominated by Hal Tharp, associate department head

Jill Wynne Systems Engineering
Nominated by Larry Head, professor

Outstanding Teaching Assistants

Anshul Agarwal Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Nominated by Robert Fleischman, associate professor

Rafael Bernal Covarrubias Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Nominated by Cho Lik Chan, professor and associate department Head, and Erdogan Madenci, professor

Dewayne Byrnes III Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nominated by Michael Marcellin, Regents’ Professor

Sean Dalton Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nominated by Michael Marcellin, Regents’ Professor

Alonso Espinoza Optical Sciences and Engineering
Nominated by John Koshel, associate dean for academic programs, and Yuzuru Takashima, associate professor

Shanshan Hou Systems and Industrial Engineering
Nominated by Neng Fan, assistant professor

Yile Hu Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Nominated by Cho Lik Chan, professor and associate department head, and Erdogan Madenci, professor

Hongwei Luo Industrial Engineering
Nominated by Wei Xie, adjunct assistant professor

Pablo Mancheno Posso Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Nominated by Anthony Muscat, professor and department head

Zoltan Szabo Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Nominated by Cho Lik Chan, professor and associate department head, and Eniko T. Enikov, professor

Outstanding Graduate Students

Brenda Bustillos Civil Engineering
Nominated by Yi-Chang Chiu, associate professor

Lucia Cardenas Duarte Engineering Management
Nominated by Bob Lepore, program director

Jerrie Vincent Fairbanks Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nominated by Linda Powers, professor; Janet Meiling Wang-Roveda, associate professor; and Hal Tharp, associate professor and associate department head

Mehdi Golari Systems and Industrial Engineering
Nominated by Neng Fan, assistant professor

Joni Lee Hesley Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Nominated by Kitt Farrell-Poe, professor and department head

Sylvain Lacaze Mechanical Engineering
Nominated by Cho Lik Chan, professor and associate department head, and Samy Missoum, associate professor

Mingyang Li Industrial Engineering
Nominated by Haitao Liao, associate professor

Samuel Alan Speet Environmental Engineering
Nominated by Jim Field, professor and assistant dean

Changhong Wu Chemical Engineering
Nominated by Ara Philipossian, professor