Dean Shekhar Garde presents the Outstanding Professor of Engineering Award to Jonathan S. Dordick, Howard P. Isermann ’42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
The School of Engineering held its annual Faculty Awards Dinner for 2019 on November 21st at Rensselaer’s Samuel F. Heffner Jr. '56 Alumni House. Engineering faculty members were honored with education, research, and team awards as well at the announcement of the Outstanding Professor of Engineering Award. The dinner also honored the 2019 Davies Medal for Engineering Achievement recipient, Dr. Charles A. Taylor.
Kurt Anderson, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education presented the Classroom Excellence Award, to Prof. Kristen L. Mills, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and Education Innovation Awards to Prof. Mohammed Alnaggar, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Prof. Xun Wang, Biomedical Engineering.
Matt Oehlschlaeger, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, presented the Research Excellence Awards to Prof. Xavier R. M. Intes, Biomedical Engineering, Prof. Qiang Ji, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Prof. Sufei Shi, Howard P. Isermann ’42 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Prof. Uwe Kruger, Biomedical Engineering.
The Outstanding Team Award was presented to Prof. Koushik Kar, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and Prof. Sandipan Mishra, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering for ‘Smart Built Environments’.
The Outstanding Professor of Engineering Award was presented by Dean Shekhar Garde to Prof. Jonathan S. Dordick, Howard P. Isermann ’42 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
Also recognized at dinner were the following Rensselaer 2019 Faculty Award recipients:
Rensselaer 2019 Faculty Award Recipients
Class of 1951 Outstanding Teaching Award
Prof. Victoria Bennett, Civil and Environmental Engineering
James M. Tien ’66 Early Career Award for Faculty
Prof. Sandipan Mishra, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Jerome Fischbach '38 Faculty Travel Award
Prof. Henry Scarton, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
William H. Wiley 1866 Distinguished Faculty Award
Prof. Steven Cramer, Howard P. Isermann ’42 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Years of Service to Rensselaer for 2019
30 years
T. Paul Chow, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
40 years
Mark Shephard, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
45 years
John McDonald, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Michael O’Rourke, Civil and Environmental Engineering
50 years
Minoru Tomozawa, Materials Science and Engineering