Honors & Awards

Students Awards

We continued our tradition of recognizing outstanding service to peers, academic achievement, and departmental assistance.

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Student Assistant of the Year Award

The Student Assistant of the Year is truly the cream of the crop of the General Engineering student workforce. They have served the department long enough and demonstrated consistently high levels of work ethic, pleasant attitude, and initiative that sets them apart.

Outstanding Student Assistant Award

This award goes to Student Assistants who not only excel in their work but show a good work ethic for the work they do for the General Engineering Department.

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award

This award is given to Undergraduate Teaching Assistants or UTA's who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help students in class or when a UTA was particularly helpful or impactful during the evening UTA hours. This is our way of recognizing them for their outstanding work.

Outstanding Boyd Scholar Award

This award is presented to the most outstanding graduating seniors who began in the Boyd Scholars Program and is based on their accomplishments, including scholarship, leadership, engagement, and integrity in engineering.

Faculty Staff Awards

We continued our tradition of recognizing outstanding service to students, the department, and those who go above and beyond.

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Byars Prize Award

Requirements, in order to be eligible for this award, is that the teacher had to teach at least nine semester credit hours of engineering fundamentals course, as well as be appointed by their fellow faculty, students, and alumni.

S.T.A.R Award

The S.T.A.R. Award is presented to a faculty or staff member who is Someone Terrific, Awesome, and Reliable and is a way to recognize sustained over-and-above contributions to the department.