CCEE 2025 Award Recipients

STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS 2025

Edgar Boyd Kay Award for Architectural Engineering Outstanding Senior

2024 Maxwell Wyatt
2025 Corre Wymann

Daniel S. Turner Award for Civil Engineering Outstanding Senior

2024 Megan Kauffman
2025 Grace Vaughan, Claire Douglass

W. Edward Back Award for Construction Engineering Outstanding Senior

2025 Bryson Mims

George J. Davis Award for Environmental Engineering Outstanding Senior

2024 Julia Kendall
2025 Kane Thurman

Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant

2025 Solomon Ajasa

2025 Harrison Hodges

CCEE Outstanding MS Thesis Award

Muhammad Sami Irfan (Advisor Mizan Rahman)
Also received University of Alabama Outstanding MS Thesis Award

CCEE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

Pushpendra Raghav (Advisor Mukesh Kumar)

CCEE Outstanding Research by a PhD Student

Sagar Dasgupta (Advisor Mizan Rahman)

Chi Epsilon Leadership in Service Award

2024 Grace Tapani
2025 Sophia Lotzow

ASCE Student Leadership Award

2024 Jacob Neal
2025 Humberto Lopez-Garcia, Brigid Flaherty

American Concrete Institute Student Leadership Award

2024 Megan Kauffman
2025 Grace Vaughan

Young Water Professionals Student Leadership Award

2025 Sophia Lotzow

Associated Builders and Contractors Student Leadership Award

2024 Jonathan Norfus
2025 Grace Pruitt

CCEE Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition Awards

Adriana Riveros Gonzales – Co-Winner
Eunice Mendes Mello – Co-winner
Parnian Ghaneei – 3rd Place

FACULTY AND STAFF AWARD RECIPIENTS 2025

Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Education
Dr. Armen Amirkhanian

Faculty Excellence in Graduate Education
Dr. Sri Aaleti

Faculty Excellence in Professional Service
Dr. Michael Kreger

Faculty Excellence for Outstanding Impact
Dr. Leigh Terry

Early Career Research Excellence and Innovation
Dr. Mesfin Mekonnen

Rising Faculty Star Research Excellence and Innovation
Dr. Daqian Jiang

Faculty Preeminence in Research Excellence and Innovation
Dr. Jialai Wang

Outstanding Staff Member
Cindy Kirkley

Staff Meritorious Service Award
Cindy Kirkley

Donald H. McLean Early Career CCEE Professor of the Year Award
Dr. Shane Crawford

Donald H. McLean CCEE Professor of the Year Award
Dr. Alex Hainen and Dr. Glenn Tootle

AWARDS OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT

CCEE Capstone Engineering Society Outstanding Senior Award
Sophia Lotzow

Engineering Council of Birmingham Scholarship
Madalyn Wilson

Engineering Council of Birmingham Architectural Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year
 Madison Carroll

Engineering Council of Birmingham Civil Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year
 Jonathan Norfus

Engineering Council of Birmingham Civil Engineering Graduate Student of the Year
 Tu Luong