The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering recognized excellence in research, teaching and staff support at the School’s annual awards ceremony Nov. 14.
Karen and John Huff School Chair Reginald DesRoches handed out 17 awards to students, faculty and staff along with Ted Russell, chair of the School’s awards committee. The committee decided whom to honor based on the nominations of their colleagues or faculty advisers.
The committee will forward many of the School-level honorees for consideration in the Georgia Tech awards programs this spring.
This year’s winners:
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 Lisa Rosenstein
CEE Appreciation Award
Recognized for her many contributions to the School, including creating and running the acclaimed CEE communications program and consistently being one of the School’s most highly rated instructors.
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 Kostas Konstantinidis
Interdisciplinary Research Award
Recognized for his international work in environmental microbiology that involves biologists, engineers, atmospheric scientists, and agricultural scientists.
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 David Frost
Research Innovation Award
Recognized for his work in bio-mediated and bio-inspired geotechnics, a relatively new area of science.
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 Barry Goodno
Senior Faculty Teaching Award
Recognized for his textbook Mechanics of Materials, which is used widely throughout the world.
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 Iris Tien
Bill Schutz Junior Faculty Teaching Award
Recognized for her excellence in classroom teaching, evidenced by high scores from students on end-of-course surveys and recommendations from numerous colleagues.
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 Joshua Stewart
Outstanding Staff Leadership Award
Recognized for dynamism in sharing the School’s story, the consistent quality of his work, and the variety of means and methods he has employed to support the School’s communications efforts.
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 Denise Rhodes
Administrative Support Excellence Award
Recognized for exemplary honesty, integrity and professionalism in supporting the School’s faculty, staff and students and inspiring the admiration of her colleagues.
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 Jess Hunt-Ralston
Professional Support Excellence Award
Recognized for her crucial role in successfully building the School’s brand as an innovative and forward-looking organization and supporting that brand with world-class visual design across print and digital products.
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 Longde Jin
Bill Schutz Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Recognized for his service as a teaching assistant in the Geotechnical Engineering Lab, working with large numbers of students and receiving very high scores on end-of-course student surveys.
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 Xiaoyang Meng
Jean-Lou Chameau Research Excellence Award
Recognized for his work on improving electrochemical oxidation, including developing a novel electrode and improving the mass transfer rate, resulting in a patent disclosure and a related journal publication.
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 Despina Tsementzi
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
“From Single Cells to Microbial Populations: Disentangling Microbial Interactions and Functions Through Integrated Omics Techniques”
Recognized for her research, which has already led to 14 publications, including as first author of a paper in the journal Nature.
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 Lauren Gardner
Best Undergraduate Research Award
Recognized for her work on intelligent and sustainable infrastructure system management.
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Brian Emrich
Best Undergraduate Research Award
Recognized for conducting numerical analysis of non-Newtonian fluid flow in rock joints.
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Other award winners who could not attend the ceremony:
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 Glaucio Paulino
Sustained Research Award
Recognized for his long record of international accomplishments, including most recently the Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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 Joe Brown
Excellence in Research Program Development
Recognized for his thriving early career research program, including more than 40 publications and $4 million in research funding as well as a very popular undergraduate course with a research abroad component.
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 Haiying Huang
Leadership in the Use of Technology Award
Recognized for her leading role in the adoption of the WileyPlus online system in Statics; her use of the Piazza social forum for class-related questions and answers; and her integration of Mathematica, WolframAlpha, and Matlab in her classes.
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 Seongyu John Jung
Best M.S. Thesis Award
“Implementation of Internal Wave Apparatus for Copepod Behavior Assays”
Recognized for his multidisciplinary approach in his thesis, blending theory, physical experiments and biological trials to provide a better understanding of the behavior of zooplankton in response to physical cues of internal waves.
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All awards photos, except her own, by Jess Hunt-Ralston. Her award photo by Joshua Stewart.
