Faculty & Staff Faculty Awards and Honors

Academic Year 2004

Steve Badylak, Society for Biomaterials, Clemson Award

Anna Balazs, Distinguished Professorship in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Chris Earls, Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award at Virginia Tech

Peyman Givi, NASA, Public Service Award

John Leonard, NSF CAREER Award

Mike Lovell, ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award

Marlin Mickle, Award for Excellence in Corporate Innovation, 10th Annual Carnegie Science Award for Excellence

Bart Nnaji, Nigerian National Merit Award

Fred Pettit, Dedicatee of Tenth International Symposium on Superalloys; Distinguished Life Membership in Alpha Sigma Mu, The Professional Honor Society of Material Science and Engineering

Larry Shuman, Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education

Sachin Velankar, NSF CAREER Award

Gotz Veser, NSF CAREER Award

Savio Woo, BMES Distinguished Lecturer Award; ASME Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award

Judith Yang, Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award

Academic Year 2005

Eric Beckman, Engineer of the Year, ESWP

Harvey Borovetz, Founding Fellow BMES

J.T. Cain, Computing Sciences Accreditation Board Fellow

James Cobb, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Gary Leach Award

Richard Debski, Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award

Karl Lewis, NSBE, Golden Torch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Academia

Scott Mao, Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award

Michael Sacks, College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; Founding Fellow BMES

Andrew Schaefer, NSF CAREER Award

George Stetten, College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

David Vorp, College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Savio Woo, Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Lecture; Founding Fellow BMES; Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence, Life Sciences Award

Academic Year 2006

Steven D. Abramowitch, Achilles Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Research Award

Harvey Borovetz, Member, Advisory Committee for the Division of Medical Engineering Research, National Health Research Institutes (MED/NHRI) of the Republic of China (Taiwan); Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence, Life Sciences Award

Daniel D. Budny, Meritorious Service Award by the International Network for Engineering Education and Research

Kevin Chen, NSF Career Award

Minking Chyu, Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

William W. Clark, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Peyman Givi, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Kent Harries, Fellow, American Concrete Institute

George E. Klinzing, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2006 Gary Leach Award

C.C. Li, Fellow, International Association for Pattern Recognition

Michael R. Lovell, Olympus/NCIIA Award for Innovation

Frederick S. Pettit, Application to Practice Award, TMS

Michael Sacks, Scientific American Magazine, Scientific American 50

Sanjeev Shroff, Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence, University/Post-Secondary Educator Award

Larry Shuman, Fellow, American Society for Engineering Education

William Wagner, Scientific American Magazine, Scientific American 50

Academic Year 2007

Steven Abramowitch, Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Scholar

Steven Badylak, Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence, Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Award

Shiao-Hung Chiang, Lifetime Achievement Award, American Filtration and Separations Society

James Cobb, Gary Leach Award, The American Institute Of Chemical Engineers

Rory Cooper, DaVinci Lifetime Achievement Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Michigan Chapter

Di Gao, NSF CAREER Award

Mark Gartner, Pitt Innovator Award

Joseph McCarthy, Robert Parker, Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellence, Excellence in Higher Education Award (team award),

George Stetten, Pitt Innovator Award

William Wagner, Carnegie Science Center Awards for Excellenc, Life Sciences Award

Jun Yang, NSF CAREER Award

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