Categories: Graduate News
      Date: Jun  1, 2009
     Title: CEE Recognizes Outstanding Achievement at its 2009 Awards Ceremony

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) held its annual Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 8, 2009 to honor some of the outstanding faculty, staff, and students within the School. This year, CEE honored eight individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and tireless dedication in their respective areas of concentration. Congratulations to the following 2009 CEE award recipients:

Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
Kuo-Jen Liao

Jean-Lou Chameau Research Excellence Award
Wei Li

Bill Schutz Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Alex Abdelnour

Outstanding Staff Performance Award
Laurie Somerville

Outstanding Research Faculty/Post-doc Award
Efthimios Tagaris

Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award
Jochen Teizer

Excellence in Research Award
Jaehong Kim

CEE Appreciation Award
Jim Mulholland

The School would also like to acknowledge the CEE Awards Committee for all of their work with important recognition process. The CEE Awards Committee includes:

• Marc Stieglitz, Associate Professor and Awards Committee Chair
• Laurie Garrow, Assistant Professor
• Ching-Hua Huang, Associate Professor
• Paul Mayne, Professor
• Rafi Muhanna, Associate Professor
• Arash Yavari, Assistant Professor