AWARDS
AND PROMOTIONS
Alan Kornhauser
Named Associate Professor Emeritus
Alexander Leonessa
Promotion to full professor
Arvid Myklebust
Professor emeritus, Outstanding Alumnus of
the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department at the University of Florida
Azim Eskandarian
Pinhas Ben-Tzvi
Appointed associate editor of the ASME
Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics;
Selected as associate editor of the IEEE
Robotics and Automation magazine; selected
as associate editor for the IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society’s conference editorial
board
Appointed College of Engineering Faculty
Fellow
Ranga Pitchumani
IEEE ITS Outstanding Researcher Award Clarke Hottel Award from the American Solar
Energy Society
Brian Vick Rayne Zheng
Inducted to North Carolina State University
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department’s Hall of Fame
Celine Hin
United States Air Force Office of Scientific
Research Early Career Award
Reza Mirzaeifar
Promotion to associate professor with tenure United States Air Force Young Investigator
Award
Clint Dancey Rolf Mueller
College of Engineering Dean’s Award for
Excellence in Teaching
Corina Sandu
Elected a Fellow of the SAE
Appointed editor-in-chief of the Mechanics
Based Design of Structures and Machines
Journal
Jiangtao Cheng
Best Paper Award at 13th International
Conference on Health Transfer Fluid
Mechanics and Thermodynamics
Joseph Schetz
AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology
Award
Lei Zuo
Received the ASME Leonardo da Vinci Award
ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division
Vibrations Technical Committee Best
Vibrations Paper Award
Michael von Spakovsky
Named Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor
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Promotion to full professor
Roop Mahajan
2018 University Alumni Award for Excellence
in International Outreach
Rui Qiao
Promotion to full professor
Tomonari Furukawa
College of Engineering Dean’s Award for
Excellence in Research
Zhiting Tian
NSF CAREER Award
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator
Award
Appointed College of Engineering Faculty
Fellow