2019 Awards for the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

International Educator of the Year

• Senior Faculty Award: William Eisenstadt, Ph.D.

Doctoral Dissertation Adviser/Mentoring Awards

• Timothy Townsend, Ph.D.
• Mingzhou Ding, Ph.D.
• Andreas Enqvist, Ph.D.
• Jason Weaver, Ph.D.
• Prabhat Mishra, Ph.D.

Undergraduate Teacher of the Year

• Pamela Dickrell, Ph.D.

Teacher/Scholar of the Year

• Sindia Rivera-Jimenez, Ph.D.

Khargonekar Award

• Domenic Forte, Ph.D.

Provost’s Excellence Award For Assistant Professors

• Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D.

UF Research Foundation Professorship Award

• Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D.
• Jose Fortes, Ph.D.
• Tanmay Lele, Ph.D.

Faculty Innovation Award

• Peng Jiang, Ph.D.

International Educator of the Year Staff Award

• Grace Hong

Staff Leadership Award

• Ericka Solano

Staff Innovation Award

• Sarah Albury

Outstanding Gator Engineering M.S. Scholar

• Swapnil Mahadev Patil

Outstanding Gator Engineering Four-Year Scholar

• Anne Denise Crowell

Outstanding Gator Engineering Two-Year Scholar

• Luis Gonzalez

Dean Jonathan F.K. Earle Engineering Leadership Award

• Ella Elmira Starr

Dean Joseph Weil Engineering Leadership Award

• Connor Jenkins

Student Commencement Speakers

• Sanethia Thomas, Ph.D.
• Mary Sullivan
• Luis Gonzalez

Creativity

• Rani Mahmoudi
• Enrico Opri

Leadership

• Angela Jimenez
• Maggie Fettis

Integrity

• Rodel Enderez
• Francesco Pittaluga

Professional Excellence

• Olivia Liseth
• Mythreyi Unni

Service to the Global Community

• Macartney Ewing
• Pedro Adorno-Maldonado

UF Society of Women Engineers’ Outstanding Support for Women in Engineering

• Curtis Taylor, Ph.D.

Gator Engineering Student Society Recognition Award for Excellence

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

The following faculty were awarded 2018 UF Term Professorships:

• Arunava Banerjee, Ph.D.
• Wesley Bolch, Ph.D.
• Kevin Butler, , Ph.D.
• Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D.
• Andreas Enqvist, Ph.D.
• Laurie Gower, Ph.D.
• Jing Guo, Ph.D.
• Yong Huang, Ph.D.
• Gregory Hudalla, Ph.D.
• Peter Ifju, Ph.D.
• Tamer Kahveci, Ph.D.
• Herman Lam, Ph.D.
• Kamran Mohseni, Ph.D.
• Ragna Narayanan, Ph.D.
• Daniela Oliveira, Ph.D.
• Mark Orazem, Ph.D.
• Karim Oweiss, Ph.D.
• Panos Pardalos, Ph.D.
• Jose Principe, Ph.D.
• Parisa Rashidi, Ph.D.
• Fan Ren, Ph.D.
• Reynaldo Roque, Ph.D.
• John Sansalone, Ph.D.
• Sherif Sherif, Ph.D.
• Meera Sitharam, Ph.D.
• Ghatu Subhash, Ph.D.
• Timothy Townsend, Ph.D.
• Larry Ukeiley, Ph.D.
• Daisy Zhe Wang, Ph.D.
• Tan Wong, Ph.D.
• Huikai Xie, Ph.D.