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School of Engineering honors outstanding students, faculty and staff at annual awards ceremony
April 30, 2015 - By Kim Delker
The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is honoring its outstanding students, faculty and staff and its annual award luncheon on May 1.
Dean Joseph L. Cecchi will serve as master of ceremonies at the event. Awards will be given out at 10 a.m. the auditorium of the Centennial Engineering Center, then lunch will be served on the Centennial courtyard.
The following students, faculty and staff were honored:
Pre-Major Awards
Outstanding Freshman — Connie Li
Outstanding Sophomore — Maria Kelly
MEP Outstanding Leadership — Ty Dennison
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Outstanding Junior — Travis Jensen
Outstanding Senior — Lyndsay Stapleton
Outstanding Graduate Student — Angelica Benavidez
Civil Engineering
Outstanding Junior — Johanna Phillips
Outstanding Senior — Erika Hernandez
Outstanding Graduate Student — Natalia Sanabria Andino
Computer Science
Outstanding Junior — Marcos Lemus
Outstanding Senior — Benjamin Mixon-Baca
Outstanding Graduate Student — Mahnush Movahedi
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Outstanding Junior — Wesley Hutchins
Outstanding Senior — Regina Eckert
Outstanding Graduate Student — Saadat Ul Masabih
Mechanical Engineering
Outstanding Junior — Christopher DeGraw
Outstanding Senior — David Flores
Outstanding Graduate Student — Nima Fathi
Nuclear Engineering
Outstanding Junior — Daniel Timmons
Outstanding Senior — Emory Brown
Outstanding Graduate Student — Timothy Schriener
Staff Awards
Rebekah Lucero — Civil Engineering
Joel Straquadine — Center for High Technology Materials
Mary Rhodes — Chemical and Biological Engineering
Faculty Awards
Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence — Mark Russell
Senior Faculty Teaching Excellence — Jedidiah Crandall
Junior Faculty Research Excellence — Meeko Oishi
Senior Faculty Research Excellence — Gary Cooper
Harrison Faculty Recognition Award — Kerry Howe