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 Scholarship

• 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