Academic Excellence Awards

Congratulations to all those who earned scholarships, who made the Dean's List, and who were inducted into honor societies during the 2023-2024 academic year!

College of Engineering Awards

N. S. Krishna Rao Engineering Excellence Scholarship

  • Erin Butler

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Graduate Fellowship Endowment for Engineering

  • Aileen Sengupta
  • Alessandra Rodriguez
  • Doreen Ntiamoah-Asare
  • Getnet Jibo
  • Jaykumar Chimanlal Lokwani
  • Katherine Jones
  • Olajumoke Aboderin

Kelcy Warren Graduate Fellowship for Engineering

  • Ahmet Alptug Tanrikulu
  • Akinbola Thomas
  • Alaina Dougall
  • Bharat Pant
  • Chinomso Uneze
  • Joshua Chi
  • Josue Caraballo
  • Mersedeh Ashraphijuo
  • Mostafa Rahimi Dizadji
  • Neaz Almir
  • Paul Agbaje
  • Sai Sneha Channamallu
  • Tyler Scoggin
  • Trebor Gough
  • Trupti Nikalje

Lawrence W. Stephens Endowment

  • Abhishek Kashyap
  • David Reynoso
  • Duy Thuc Nguyen
  • Ehiremen Ebewele
  • Eric Soskin
  • Joseph Strange
  • Justin Compton
  • Marco Agredano
  • Marina Materikina
  • Nicholas Tyler
  • Preetam Kulkarni
  • Rajeev Shobhit Voleti

Dr. Shamim Sughra Malik Endowment

  • Aqsa Yousaf
  • Fiza Saeed
  • Junaid Ahmad
  • Muhammad Abdullah Cheema
  • Muhammad Mehdi Abbas
  • Rao Ali
  • Tanya Khan
  • Bhavya Vaish
  • Homayoun Asadzadeh
  • Le Hoang
  • Ludovica Corona
  • Saeed Jahromi
  • Scott Renkes

Dr. Franklyn Alexander Doctoral Fellowship

  • Soheila Norasteh

Heqing Yu and Yin Yang Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Engineering

  • Vy Tran

Meyyur Sojar Endowed Fellowship in Engineering

  • Jahnavi Durga Morampudi

Cung Family - College of Engineering Named Scholarship Fund

  • Karla Gonzalez

North American Foundation Scholarship

  • Elizabeth Bernal
  • Matthew Terry

Bettye M. Rady Scholarship

  • Dania May Sawan
  • Jeremiah Pitts
  • Katherine Zoller
  • Malak Al-Noubani
  • Samia Alif Esha
  • Galilea Saavedra
  • Jennifer Martinez Gomez
  • Rachel Lim
  • Ricardo Hernandez
  • Tatyana McCree Smith

FIRST Scholarship provided from the Jack R. Woolf Endowed Scholarship

  • Braelin Kinsel
  • Jesus Molina

Jack R. Woolf Endowed Scholarship

  • Diego Mercado
  • Mia Grubbs
  • Raquel Alexandra Reyes
  • Adebowale Adeyemo
  • Brooke Sayer
  • Erin Everett
  • Jamie Salinas
  • Mukti Patel
  • Natasha Iannello
  • Nathan Patrick
  • Neery Barrios Fernandez
  • Paul Kolattukudy
  • Samuel Thomas
  • Teawedros Alemayehu

Karan Harbison Endowed Scholarship Fund

  • Sydney Bunnag

Stephen Underwood Foundation Endowed Scholarship

  • Sydney Bunnag

Fine Arts Society of India Fellowship

  • Digvijay Patil
  • Yash Ajariwal

Dorothy J. and A.W. Cross Engineering Book Scholaship

  • Ikeoluwa Adetutu
  • Samantha Arruda
  • Yi Cheng Huang
  • Zachary Fly

Glenn Carter Endowed Engineering Scholarship

  • Auruba Islam
  • Ian Norwood

Janet and Mike Greene Endowed Engineering Scholarship

  • Brianna Guerra
  • Jose Alvarez
  • Whitney Jones
  • Destiny Olan Rogers

Bill and Marsha Carroll Endowed Scholarship

  • Valentina Torres Nieto
  • Olivia Smith

Charlie and Mollie Daniels Family Endowed Scholarship

  • Anthony Aiyedun
  • Bethel Bezabeh
  • Choula Kammogne
  • Michelle Delk
  • Tanatswa Gwaze
  • Yeabsra Gezahgne Gebremeskel
  • Janet George
  • Michael Aiyedun
  • Oluwadamilola Ajayi
  • Jacqueline Luong
  • Jason Baksh
  • Nicolas Mancillas
  • Nicole Smith

Huitt Zoller Endowed Scholarship for the College of Engineering

  • William Bennett

Mary Aline Baker Haden Endowed Scholarship

  • Jacinda Williams

Richard "Dick" Moeller MBA

  • Jonathan Pineda

Resource and Energy Engineering Kelcy Warren Scholarship

  • Jordan Nalepka

Bell Helicopter Endowed Scholarship for Engineering

  • Ariel Zambeck
  • Matthew Walls

Hardik Shah Scholarship

  • Alberto Gonzalez
  • Revigya Joshi

Chance Vought Engineering and Science Endowment

  • Batul Ali
  • Bishnu Katuwal
  • Brenden Crowder
  • Caleb Myatt
  • Chau-Phuc Nguyen
  • Christine Krupa
  • Colby Buda
  • Erik Guerrero
  • Flavio Villalobos Valle
  • Jalen Henry
  • Jessyannn Perez
  • Joshua Phillips
  • Kaden Stanski
  • Mohammed Isak
  • Vanhvilay Souriyachack
  • Carolyn Aghajani Mirzayans Zadeh

Patrica and Charles Jenkins Endowed Scholarship

  • Jose Rivera Andrade

Emma Frances (Raley) Argento Scholarship

  • Dang Do
  • Hala Marardeh
  • Kimberlie Lamb

Clarke Benham Excellence Scholarship in Engineering

  • Sarah Akin

Carolyn and Dan Carey Scholarship

  • Om Patel
  • Antonio Delarosa
  • Audrey McEnaney
  • Joshua Battle
  • Marissa Sanchez
  • Mazen Hamad

Van Siclen-Davis Family Scholarship

  • Sokol Kurtesi
  • Vi Tran

Dr. Jack Fitzer Memorial Scholarship in Engineering Endowed by Dr. Tony & Mrs. JoAnn Wong

  • Quynh Giang Bui

Stephen C. Robb Scholarship in Engineering

  • Roberto Azahar
  • Aubrey Merkel
  • Aubrey Hernandez

Bioengineering Department Awards

Dr. Franklyn Alexander Endowed Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering

  • Anne Alsup
  • Vicki Ea
  • Scott Renkes
  • Sakar Rijal
  • Priyanka Shiveshwarkar
  • Vy Tran
  • Zachary Armstrong
  • Abhilash Boppana

Robert and Carol Eberhart Endowed Scholarship

  • Saru Twayana

Hong Kong Alumni Endowed Graduate Fellowship

  • Vineeth Jamullamudi
  • Edwin Philip

Jennifer Hoa Nguyen Memorial Scholarship

  • Anuhya Jujjuvarapu
  • Lohith Neelam

Women's Vietnamese Minnesota Refugees Scholarship

  • Naga Sravani Vedanabhatla

Alfred and Janet Potvin Award for Outstanding Bioengineering Students

  • Zachary Armstrong
  • Michael Ikefuna
  • Teresa Le
  • Juan Ramirez
  • Jeannette Santos
  • Kelli Fowlds
  • Ingrid Guerrero Rodriguez
  • Bhavya Vaish

Civil Engineering Department Awards

Arthur R. Poor Graduate Scholarship

  • Saul Menijivar
  • Piper Roman
  • Kelli Greenwood

Plummer - Mancini Scholarship

  • Aayush Khatri
  • Ali Azzawi
  • Jacob Mendoza
  • Ibram Abdalla
  • Eric Katenge
  • Emmanuel Oni

Albert & Lee B. Halff Scholarship

  • Doreen Ntiamoah-Asare

Charlie M. Moore Civil Engineering Scholarship

  • Ramiro Flores-Castro
  • Alyssa Phillips
  • Radjah Kirstine Soliman
  • Anahi Salgado
  • Adedamola Kolawole

Dorothy and Grover Grubb Civil Engineering Scholarship

  • Christope Mwemera

Wier & Associates Scholarship for Civil Engineering

  • Alex Castillo
  • Dania Abu-Saqer
  • Mahla Majidi

Gary Teague Civil Engineering Scholarship

  • Andres Zuniga

James W. Mitchell Scholarship for Civil Engineering

  • Jacob Mendoza

V.T. Hancock Texas Water Utilities Association Civil Engineering Scholarship

  • Md Zumail Izad Chowdhury
  • Diego Duran

Construction Research Center Scholarship

  • Emily Hernandez

John Mattys Building Officials Association of Texas Scholarship

  • Alisa Pjetrovic

Emma and Dr. Vittorio 'Vic' Argento Scholarship

  • Anas Hammouri
  • Micah Welch

Laura Goodnight Poor Civil Engineering Scholarship for Women

  • Maribel Vecerra

Stan and Jan Agee Scholarship

  • Isaac Peng
  • Alyssa Phillips

Roy Neu DFW DACA Scholarship

  • Abdurreh Asif
  • Sakshi Thorat
  • Saeed Asadi
  • Prashant Chavan

American Concrete Institute Scholarship

  • Radjah Soliman
  • Alex Castillo
  • Ayush Khatri

Ernest L. Buckley Undergraduate Scholarship

  • Ethan Bright

Structural Engineers Association of Texas Scholarship

  • Ojaswi Thapa

Civil Engineering Excellence Scholarship

  • Entezaralmahdi Shahrzad
  • Hossein Jonoshfarahani
  • Raj Valmik Wagh
  • Mahla Majidi
  • Prashant Chavan
  • Saeed Asadi
  • Hrishikesh Kulkarni
  • Joel Simon Rusine
  • Kooshyar Lahsaei
  • Withaq Al-Hashimi
  • Mona Abdallah
  • Ambothu Rajasekar
  • Rizwan Shaik
  • Marah Samer Maayah
  • Ammar Sherwani
  • Ashish Shivaji Avadoba
  • Narges Sadeghigolshan
  • Vishal Patil
  • Mohammad Quadri
  • Shadman Sakib
  • Riyaz Syed
  • Akshay Kumar Parvathala
  • Felipe Borges Ferreira
  • Sara Hashempour Motlagh S
  • Aishwariya Vaidyanathan
  • Naima Zenika
  • Gael Niganze
  • Pravin Sathe
  • Bajaa Kherfan
  • Shubham Babariya
  • Hossein Taheri
  • Sakshi Thorat
  • Hussain Ali
  • Aiswarya Acharath Mohanakrishnan

CE Department Academic Excellence Award

  • Getnet Jibo
  • Mehrdad Arabi
  • Zaid Momani
  • Nahal Maymandi
  • S M Ashik Al Aziz
  • Sai Bharadwaj Reddy Chandupatla
  • Ishraq Faruk
  • Kelli Greenwood
  • Diana Gabriela Hernandez Videa
  • Sharon Macharla
  • Benamar Mebarkia
  • Cesar Ortiz Correa
  • Nebille Jacob Panickaparambil
  • Sadhika Poondru
  • Alex Sharif
  • Yaranagula Sree Jhansi Mounika
  • Sehneela Sara Aurpa
  • Ishrat Borno
  • Sona Francis
  • Chirag Ramesh Gudhka
  • Jacqueline Luong
  • Anthony Nguyen
  • Ulises Olvera Martinez
  • Micah Welch
  • Laura Ibanez
  • Emily Hernandez
  • PoAnn Ly
  • Tiffany Gough
  • Shalom Emeka
  • Ramiro Flores-Castro
  • Fady Guergues
  • Gonzalo Orocio
  • Eric Egwuonwu
  • Hrushikesh Patel
  • Rayyan Vahidy
  • Casey Ross
  • Mason Harper
  • Muhsin Alfridawi
  • Jonathan Bolivar
  • Angel Castro Hernandez

Computer Science and Engineering Department Awards

John S. Schuchman Outstanding Doctoral Student

  • Wenqi Jia
  • Mohammad Rifat Arefin
  • Minh Tram

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

  • Lu Zhang
  • Sohil Shrestha

Outstanding Master Student

  • Aairish Singh
  • Arshdeep Singh

Cyneta Networks Outstanding Graduate TA

  • Mihir Yashwant Ingole
  • Qiping Wei
  • Taha Shujaat
  • Evan Cornish

Sabre Holdings Outstanding Professional CpE Student

  • Sneh Acharya

    Nokia Outstanding Pre-professional CS Student

  • Mohammad Hasibur Rahman

Nokia Outstanding Professional CS Student

  • Viraj Sabhaya

Vruwink Outstanding Grad Student

  • Rodrigo Hernandez-Pleite

Vruwink Outstanding UG Student

  • Bobby Flennoy
  • Ryan Lahlou
  • Aryan Mediratta
  • Dominic Lamana
  • Trevor Reigh

Raytheon Outstanding Professional SE Student

  • Amey Shinde

Jeff and Lisa Smith Outstanding Graduate Researcher

  • Lingfeng Xiang
  • Kiran Bolaj

Hersed Kindness Award

  • Michelle Samson
  • Hamza Pavel

Santech Outstanding Senior Design Team

  • Muhammad Anas
  • Akshay Paluri
  • Ameen Mahouch
  • Hyun Ho Kim
  • Kundan Singh Mahato

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (international Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines)

  • Aindrila Bhattacharya
  • Steven Fitzgerald
  • Arian Goudar
  • Ribesh Joshi
  • Rency Ajit Kansagra
  • Nebojsa Kilibarda
  • Aryan Mediratta
  • Hananeel Pankaj
  • Mohit Singhal
  • Roberto Azahar
  • Shreya Chindepalli
  • Marisa Dominguez
  • Nathanial Fenoglio
  • Kelly French
  • Mary Koone
  • Heet Patel
  • Ariel Rico

Electrical Engineering Department Awards

Alfred R. and Janet H. Potvin Distinguished Undergraduate Scholar in Electrical Engineering

  • Ethan Brummet
  • Janet George

Barbara and Vasant Prabhu Scholarship Endowed by his Graduate Students

  • Nikhil Balkrishna
  • Mersedeh Ashraphijuo

Bernard and Ann Svihel Memorial Scholarship Endowment

  • Jorge Cuellar
  • John Chuckwu
  • Noorullah Ghani
  • Ngun Zel

Dr. James R. Hellums Endowed Scholarship

  • Adarsh Singh
  • David James Cumbee

Dr. K. R. Rao Electrical Engineering Graduate Fellowship

  • Samyam Santosh
  • Shrutika Ravindra Chaudhari
  • Gopala Krishna Chowdary Mandava
  • Prajwal Gowda Rampura Suresh

Dr. Mo-Shing Chen Scholarship in Power Systems

  • Scott Turpin

Dr. N. M. Stelmakh Outstanding Student Research Award

  • Hafez Hammati
  • Nasrin Razmjooei

Floyd Cash Endowed Scholarship

  • Noorullah Ghani

Jack Fitzer Endowed Scholarship Fund

  • Olajumoke Aboderin
  • Erin Butler

John M. Goodwin Endowment Fund

  • Nasrin Razmjooei
  • Fairooz Simlan

Laxmi and Raj Mrig Endowed Graduate Fellowship for Electrical Engineering

  • Vrushabh Donge
  • Fairooz Simlan

Professor Paul M. Cunningham Endowed Scholarship

  • Zaid Osama Meqbel
  • Zayaan Sharif Chowdhury

Research in Motion Scholarship Endowment

  • Elijah Sharp
  • Nasrin Razmjooei
  • Ranjith Thylagere Chennegowda

Ron L. Cates Endowed Scholarship

  • Zaid Osama Meqbel
  • Gabriella Castillo-Cecenas
  • Andrew Kozelsky
  • Auruba Islam

Samuel Clayton Quinn Scholarship

  • Ahmad Alshamali
  • John Chuckwu

Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department Awards

Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineering Outstanding Junior

  • Corey Arnold

Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineering Outstanding Senior

  • John Conlin

G.T. Stevens Scholarship

  • Ansa Saleem

Elinor Pape Endowed Scholarship

  • Afrin Hakeem
  • Kushi Athma
  • Jerifa Zaman

Anita and Subhash Singhal Family Endowed Scholarship

  • Intesar Husain

Don Liles Endowed Scholarship

  • Yash Fand

First Generation IE Endowed Scholarship

  • Christopher Hernandez
  • Gavin Wilson
  • Zayan Aly
  • Kimberly Vong
  • Mayra Olmos
  • Piedad Rodriguez

Keith and Carolyn Weiss Industrial Engineering Scholarship

  • Christopher Hernandez
  • Charles Graham

Weiss Family Endowed Scholarship in Industrial Engineering

  • John Conlin
  • Christopher Hernandez

John and Pat Priest Family Endowed Scholarship

  • Matthew Moore
  • John Conlin

The Marjorie and Russell Priest Family Endowed Scholarship

  • Zayan Aly
  • Kimberly Vong
  • Mayra Olmos
  • Yi Cheng Huang
  • Daniel Flores
  • Piedad Rodriguez
  • Angel Rubio
  • Tyler Nguyen

RFID and Auto ID (RAID) Labs Outstanding Student

  • Chandramouli Munjurpet Sridharan

COSMOS Research Scholarship

  • Syed Saboor Ahmed

Alpha Pi Mu

  • John Conlin
  • John Fischer
  • Zachary Friend
  • Matthew Hayward
  • Christopher Hernandez
  • Dylan Hoang
  • Ivan Martinez
  • Matthew Moore
  • Ivan Mora
  • Murielle Tshindj Tela Mutomb
  • Zoe Rodriguez
  • Massimo Sanchez-Lara
  • Anna Stone
  • Jordan Watkins
  • Gavin Wilson
  • Binayak Bahadur Adhikari
  • Venkata Sai Jaswanth Alahari
  • Ashraf Awad
  • Bharat Duppala
  • Yogesh Goyal
  • Jaykumar Chimanlal Lokwani
  • Faisalhusain Loni
  • Prajwal Yadav Manjunath
  • Pooja Niranjan
  • Krunal Ashok Panchal
  • Nithish Parameswaran
  • Yash Patel
  • Shravani Suhas Potdar
  • Ansa Saleem
  • Syed Ajmal Shakeeb
  • Eshwara Prasad Sridhar
  • Likith Vignesh Srinivasa
  • Joseph Strange
  • Deepak Kumar Surendran

Materials Science and Engineering Department Awards

Academic Excellence Award

  • Anthony Martinez
  • Kingsley Ochiabuto
  • Bharat Pant

Best Paper Award

  • Hariram Mohanram
  • Bharat Pant

Carl Wiseman Service Award

  • Ryan Hart

Graduate Student Seminar Award

  • Samuel Fuentes

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Awards

Pi Tau Sigma

  • Alyssa Velky
  • Donald Howard
  • Michelle Delk
  • Braxton Smith
  • Bao Quoc Duong
  • Jachin Ramirez
  • Roberto Garza De La Rosa
  • Michael Ray Ramos
  • Khiem Do
  • Hugo Lopez
  • Audrey Miller
  • Thu Hoang
  • Aadee Mitee
  • Bradley Scott
  • Faizan Khan
  • Michael McQuade