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Faculty Awards & Honors

 
Pradeep Agrawal

• Outstanding AIChE Student Chapter Advisor, 1994

Sue Ann Bidstrup Allen

• Sharon Keillor Award, American Society of Engineering Education, 2008
• Diversity Award, Council for Chemical Research, 2007-08
• Fellow of the Society of Plastic Engineers, 2002
• PRC Faculty of the Year for Education, 2000
• Society of Plastic Engineers Outstanding Service Award, 1998
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1991
• Alcoa Foundation Science Support Award, 1989
• DuPont Young Faculty Award, 1989

Mark Allen (joint appointment)

• Arthur K. Doolittle Award, ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, 1988
• Fellow, College of Relay Engineers, National Association of Relay Manufacturers, 1997

Andreas Bommarius

• College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2007

Victor Breedveld

• CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2006
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2006-2011
• TALENT grant, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW), 2000

Rachel Chen

• USDA New Investigator Award, 2003

Charles A. Eckert

• Clarence Gerhold Award, AIChE, 2005
• Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, given jointly by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ACS, 2004 (Joint award with Dr. Charles Liotta)
• State of Georgia Regents’ Research in Undergraduate Education Award, 2000
• William H. Walker Award, AIChE, 1999
• Georgia Tech Distinguished Professor Award, 1997
• E. V. Murphree Award, ACS, 1995
• Alan Colburn Award, AIChE, 1973
• Ipatieff Prize, ACS, 1977
• National Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of AIChE
• Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award, 1988
• Halliburton Award for Engineering Education Leadership, 1989

Larry J. Forney

• NASA Summer Faculty Fellow, 1988
• ASEEE Summer Faculty Fellow, 1982
• NSF Initiation Grant, 1975

W. James Frederick

• Forest Products Division Award, AIChE, 1998
• TAPPI Fellow
• TAPPI Finest Faculty Recognition, 1994

Tom Fuller

• Research Award of the Energy Technology Division of The Electrochemical Society, 2008

Martha Grover Gallivan

• W. David Smith, Jr. Award, Computing and Systems Technology Division, AIChE, 2005
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2004

Clifford Henderson

• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2000

Dennis Hess

• Solid State Science and Technology Award, Electrochemical Society, 2005
• Charles M. A. Stine Award, AIChE, 1999
• Thomas D. Callinan Award, Electrochemical Society, 1993
• Fellow of AIChE, 1998
• Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, 1993
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2002

Jeffery Hsieh

• Fellow of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, 1995

Christopher Jones

• Micrometrics Instrumentation Grant, 2008
• J. Carl and Sheila Pirkle Faculty Fellow, 2005-2008
• DuPont Young Professor Award, 2005
• Young Scientists Prize, 13th International Congress on Catalysis, 2004
• Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 2004
• Young Scientists Prize, 13th International Congress on Catalysis, 2004
• CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2004
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2002-2007
• Ralph Powe Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, 2001
• Junior Faculty Award, Shell Oil Company Foundation, 2001, 2002, 2003
• Innovation Recognition Award, Union Carbide, 1999

Paul Kohl

• Thomas D. Callinan Award, Electrochemical Society, 2008
• Hercules, Inc./Thomas L. Gossage Chair, 2006
• Carl Wagner Memorial Award, Electrochemical Society, 2001
• Fellow of the Electrochemical Society

William J. Koros

Investigator Grant, Global Research Partnership of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
• Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology, 2008
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005
• Who’s Who in America, 2000
• University of Texas at Austin Distinguished Graduate Award, 2000
• Clarence Gerhold Award, AIChE, 1999
• Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, AIChE, 1995
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1984
• PYI Award, NSF, 1984
• National Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of AIChE
• Alcoa Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Accomplishments

Jay Lee

• Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1993

Charles Liotta

• Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, given jointly by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ACS, 2005 (Joint award with Dr. Charles Eckert)
• Mac Pruitt Award, Council for Chemical Research, 2005

Hang Lu

• CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2008
• DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2007
• DuPont Young Professor Award, 2006
• MIT Technology Review TR35 (top 35 technology innovators under age 35), 2005
• NIH Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award, 2004-2007

Larry McIntire (joint appointment)

• National Academy of Engineering, 2001
• Sigma Xi National Lecturer, 1993-1995
• Fellow of AIChE, 1994
• Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998
• Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
• Fellow of American Heart Association
• Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award, AIChE, 1992

John Muzzy

• Person of the Year, Composites Division of SPE, 2005
• Honored Service Award, Society of Plastics Engineers, 2002

Sankar Nair

• Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 2008

Athanasios Nenes (joint appointment)

• Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 2007
• Sheldon K Friedlander Award, American Association for Aerosol Research, 2005
• Blanchard-Milliken Junior Faculty Fellowship, College of Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
• New Investigator Award, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2004
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2004
• ACCESS Colloquium Participation, 2003
• Dean's Prize, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, 1998
• University of Miami Fellowship, 1996-1997
• Best Diploma Thesis Award in Chemical Engineering, Chamber of Engineers (Greece), 1996

Robert M. Nerem (joint appointment)

• Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award, ASEE, 1998
• Thurston Lecturer, ASME, 1994
• Lissner Award, ASME, 1989
• National Academy of Engineering
• Institute of Medicine
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering

Gary Poehlein (emeritus faculty)

• Malcolm Pruitt Award, CCR, 1989
• Fellow of AIChE

Mark Prausnitz

• Young Investigator Award, Controlled Release Society, 2005
• Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 2004
• NSF/NIH Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health, 2002
• 40-Under-40 Rising Stars, Georgia Trend Magazine, 2001
• BP/AMOCO Junior GT Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2000
• Coulter Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Finalist, Coulter Foundation, 2000
• Top 100 Young Innovators, Technology Review, 1999
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1996

Elsa Reichmanis

• Grace Hopper Lecturer, School of Engineering, University of
Pennsylvania, 2006
• Chevron Phillips Lecturer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 2006
• George Mason Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2005
• National Science Council Distinguished Lecturer, Taiwan 2004
• Meek Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University  2004
• George Braude Award, ACS Maryland Local Section,  2003
• Fellow, ACS Division of Polymeric Materials:  Science and Engineering, 2002
• George Arents Pioneer Medal, Syracuse University, 2001
• Perkin Medalist, Society of Chemical Industry, 2001
• Bayer-Stein Lecturer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001
• ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science, 1999
• Photopolymer Science and Technology Award, 1998
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997
• ASM International Engineering Materials Achievement Award, 1996
• Elected, National Academy of Engineering, 1995
• Fellow, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1995
• Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award, 1993

Ronald W. Rousseau

• Warren K. Lewis Award, 2002
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001
• Fellow of AIChE, 1998
• Clarence Gerhold Award, AIChE, 1996
• Elected to the LSU Engineering Hall of Distinction, 1991
• Forest Products Division Award, AIChE, 1980

Athanassios Sambanis

• Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Robert Samuels (emeritus faculty)

• International Research Award, SPE, 1999
• Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers

David Sholl

• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2002
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, A.P. Sloan Foundation 2001-2003
• CAREER Award, NSF, 2000

A. H. Peter Skelland (emeritus faculty)

• Fellow of AIChE

Jude T. Sommerfeld (emeritus faculty)

• Fellow of AIChE

Arnold Stancell (emeritus faculty)

• Fellow of AIChE, 2005
• Award for Chemical Engineering Practice, AIChE, 1997
• National Academy of Engineering

Amyn S. Teja

• AIChE Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, 2002
• Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, AIChE, 2002
• Sigma Xi, Supervisor of Outstanding Ph. D. Thesis, 1994 and 1996
• Omega Chi Epsilon, Outstanding Teacher Award, 1990
• Sigma Xi, Faculty Sustained Research Award, 1987
• Sigma Xi, Supervisor of Outstanding M.S. Thesis in Engineering, 1984 and 1990
• British Council Younger Research Workers Award, 1977
• Hinchley Medal, 1968
• David Spurr Memorial Medal, 1967
• Fellow of AIChE

Ajit Yoganathan (joint appointment)

• Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award, American Society of Engineering Education Bioengineering Division, 2005
• Lissner Award, ASME, 1997
• Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, 1992
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
• Edwin Walker Prize from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, U.K.,