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Points of Pride

Faculty

  • 2024 HIPs Faculty Award 鈥 Ipek Yucelen (2024)
  • Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award from The Center for Leadership and
    Civic Engagement 鈥 Ipek Yucelen (2024)
  • 2024 Women in Leadership and Philanthropy Dr. Kathleen Moore Faculty Excellence
    Award - Nancy Diaz-Elsayed (2024)
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors 鈥 Rasim Guldiken (2024)
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors 鈥 Tansel Yucelen (2024) 
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors 鈥 Redwan Alqasemi (2024)
  • Editor鈥檚 Choice Award for 2023 Tests and Analysis on the Dynamic Loosening of Jack
    Bolt Nuts Compared with Heavy Hex Nuts in Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention,  鈥 Daniel Hess (2023)
  • 2022-2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award 鈥 Ipek Yucelen (2023)
  • Best Paper Award at the Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies
    (CoDIT) 2023 鈥 Tansel Yucelen (2023)
  • USF COE Outstanding Teaching Award 鈥 Miguel Goni Rodrigo (2023)
  • Semi-finalist for the 2024 Robert Foster Cherry Award 鈥 Autar Kaw (2023)
  • Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Control, Decision and
    Information Technologies 鈥 Tansel Yucelen (2023)
  • Keynote speaker for the Smart Manufacturing Summit in Northern Ireland 鈥 Redwan
    Alqasemi (2023)
  • Elevated to Senior Member status, National Academy of Inventors 鈥 Ashok Kumar (2023)
  • Professor Emeritus Delcie Durham (ME) was honored as the namesake for 2023 SME
    Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Awards. (2023)
  • Recipient of the Thomas C. Evans Engineering Education Paper Award 鈥 Autar Kaw (2023)
  • 2022 SME Outstanding Young Engineer Manufacturing Award 鈥 Nancy Diaz Elsayed (2022)
  • Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel, Winter 2022/2023 鈥 Redwan Alqasemi (2022)
  • 2022 USF Status of Latinos (SOL) Award 鈥 Nancy Diaz Elsayed (2022)
  • Named Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 鈥 Tansel Yucelen (2022)
  • 2022 NSF CAREER Award 鈥 Arman Sargolzaei (2022)
  • 2022 NSF CAREER Award 鈥 Ying 鈥淪arah鈥 Zhong (2022)
  • USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award 鈥 Rasim Guldiken (2022)
  • USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award 鈥 Cai Mike Wang (2022)
  • USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award 鈥 Stephanie Carey (2022)
  • 2022 Excellence in Innovation Award 鈥 Ying 鈥淪arah鈥 Zhong (2022)
  • 2022 USF STEER Award 鈥 Daniel Hess (2022)
  • Elevated to Senior Member Status, National Academy of Inventors 鈥 Rajiv Dubey (2022)
  • Excellence in Research, Pre-Tenure Award 鈥 David Murphy (2022)
  • Elected ASME Fellow 鈥 Rasim Guldiken (2022)
  • 2022 USF Academic Excellence Award 鈥 Rasim Guldiken (2022)
  • USF Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award 鈥 Autar Kaw (2021)
  • USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award 鈥 Ajit Mujumdar (2021)
  • USF Outstanding Faculty Award 鈥 Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • USF STEER Scholar 鈥 Rasim Guldiken (2021)
  • ACS Doctoral New Investigator Award (Early career) 鈥 Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • Elected president of the USF Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA) - Frank Pyrtle, III (2021)
  • USF COE Outstanding Junior Research Achievement Award 鈥 Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society) Functional Materials Division (FMD)
    Young Leaders Professional Development Award - Michael Cai Wang (2021)
  • Fulbright Scholar Kyle Reed (2019 - 2020)
  • DARPA SBIR Phase II Grant through OptoXense Tansel Yucelen (2019 - 2021)
  • AFRL Add Work Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • 2019 NSF CAREER award David Murphy (2019)
  • Lockheed Martin Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • NSF Graduate Student Travel Support Grant Tansel Yucelen (2019)
  • AFRL Grant through OptoXense Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • USF World Global Achievement Faculty Certificate Alex Volinsky (2018)
  • Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award; 黑料老司机 Research and Innovation Tansel Yucelen  (2018)
  • Certificate of Recognition for being 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award Nominee; 黑料老司机 Research and Innovation Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • 2018 Excellence in Innovation Award - Stephanie Carey (2018)
  • 2018 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award - Tansel Yucelen (2018)
  • 2018 Alliance for Citizens with Disabilities Hillsborough County Award - Redwan Alqasemi (2018)
  • NSF I-Corps Award - Rasim Guldiken (2018)
  • 2017-18 Ralph Coats Roe Award - Autar Kaw (2018)
  • Fullbright Specialist in Malaysia Summer 2018 - Autar Kaw (2018)
  • 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowship - David Murphy (2017)
  • NSF Award - Jonathan Gaines (2017)
  • NSF Award - Stephanie Carey (2017)
  • NSF Award - Nathan Crane (2017)
  • NSF Award - Wenjun Cai (2017)
  • 2017 TMS Young Leaders Professional Award - Wenjun Cai (2017)
  • NSF Award - Jonathan Gaines (2017)
  • NSF Award - Stephanie Carey (2017)
  • NSF Award - Autar Kaw (2016)
  • NSF Award - Tansel Yucelen (2016)
  • 2016 USF Global Achievement Faculty Award - Alex Volinsky (2016)
  • Dave Ward Memorial Lecture Award - Tansel Yucelen (2016)
  • Ashok Kumar Elevated to Prestigious SME College of Fellows (2016)
  • STEER Institute Scholars Teaching Award - Autar Kaw (2016)
  • NSF Award - Kyle Reed (2016)
  • NSF Award - Nathan Crane (2016)
  • NSF CAREER award - Wenjun Cai (2015)
  • USF Excellence in Innovative Award for Exceptional Achievement in Innovation and Research - Kyle Reed (2015)
  • Best Paper Award by the ASME Design Engineering Division's Mechanisms and Robotics Committee - Craig Lusk (2015)
  • Ashok Kumar elected AIMBE Fellow
  • NSF Award - Alex Volinsky (2014)
  • Fulbright Scholar - Nathan Crane (2014)
  • Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from SAE International - Rasim Guldiken (2014)
  • USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award - Ajit Mujumdar (2014)
  • NSF Innovation Corps Grant - Kyle Reed (2014)
  • Kosove Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award - Autar Kaw (2013)
  • USF Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Ashok Kumar (2013)
  • USF Outstanding Faculty Recognition - Craig Lusk (2013)