CCEE 2026 Award Recipients

STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS 2026

Edgar Boyd Kay Award for Architectural Engineering Outstanding Senior
John Brady Bowman

Daniel S. Turner Award for Civil Engineering Outstanding Senior
Taylor Sheffield
Wesley Gilbert

W. Edward Back Award for Construction Engineering Outstanding Senior
Brooke Pyburn
David McDermott

George J. Davis Award for Environmental Engineering Outstanding Senior
Reilly Wells

Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Assistant
Georgia Herr

Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Maggie Duncan

CCEE Outstanding Non-Traditional Thesis Award
Tu Dinh Luong (Advisor Sriram Aaleti)
Also received University of Alabama Outstanding Non-Traditional Thesis Award

CCEE Outstanding MS Thesis Award
Archana Kumari (Advisor Sriram Aaleti)
Also received University of Alabama Outstanding MS Thesis Award

CCEE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
Ebrahim Hamidi (Advisor Hamed Moftakhari)
Also received University of Alabama Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award

American Concrete Institute (ACI) Student Leadership Award
Sydney Lyons

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Leadership Award
Grace Vaughan, Eunice Mendes Rodrigues Farias Melloo, Georgia Ballard, Elena Evans, Humberto Lopez-Garcia, Alex Brown, Monica Lages Do Amaral, John Brady Bowman, Aaron Griffin, Henry Burnson

Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Leadership in Service Award
Yizhou Yang

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Student Leadership Award
TBD

Chi Epsilon Leadership in Service Award
Ashley Hume

Young Water Professionals Student Leadership Award
Georgia Herr

ASCE 2026 Gulf Coast Student Symposium
Concrete Canoe – First Place
Timber Strong – Third Place

CCEE Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition Awards
Ehsan Foroumandi – First Place
Solomon Ajasa – Second Place
Sanam Etemadimakki – Third Place

Bill Roy Concrete Industry Scholarship
Abdulmaliq Alawode
Shubham Sharma Gyawali
Eunice Mendes Rodrigues Farias Mello

CCEE Graduate Student Research Poster Competition
Hesam Jafarian – First Place
Kunal Mohinderu – Second Place
Sophia Lotzow – Third Place
Shubham Sharma Gyawali – Third Place

FACULTY AND STAFF AWARD RECIPIENTS 2026

Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Education
Dr. Thang Dao

Faculty Excellence in Graduate Education
Dr. Hamid Moradkhani

Faculty Excellence in Professional Service
Dr. Armen Amirkhanian

Faculty Excellence for Outstanding Impact
Dr. Hamed Moftakhari

Early Career Research Excellence and Innovation
Dr. Daqian Jiang

Rising Faculty Star Research Excellence and Innovation
Dr. Mizanur Rahman

Faculty Preeminence in Research Excellence and Innovation
Dr. Sriram Aaleti

Outstanding Staff Member
Rhiannon Davidson and Mariah Parker

Staff Meritorious Service Award
Lusiana Scott

Donald H. McLean Early Career CCEE Professor of the Year Award
Dr. Eleanor “Lea” Skelton

Donald H. McLean CCEE Professor of the Year Award
Dr. Leigh Terry

ALUMNI AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS 2026

Keith-Woodman Award
Dr. Elaina J. Sutley, ’10, ’12, The University of Kansas

CCEE Distinguished Departmental Fellow
Dr. Joseph Allen, Jr., ’73, ’74, ’76, ‘88
Dr. W. Edward Back
Dr. Steven Burian, ‘95
Dr. Jun Liu [Posthumous]
J. David Pugh, ‘84
Russell D. Ware, Jr., ‘95

Lee J. Styslinger Jr. College of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Fellow
George C. Conner, ’83, ‘85

AWARDS OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT 2026

CCEE Capstone Engineering Society Outstanding Senior Award
Grace Vaughan

Engineering Council of Birmingham Architectural Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year
John Brady Bowman

Engineering Council of Birmingham Civil Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year
Humberto Lopez-Garcia

Engineering Council of Birmingham Construction Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year
Brooke Pyburn

Engineering Council of Birmingham Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Student of the Year
Gabriella Gaston

Engineering Council of Birmingham Civil Engineering Graduate Student of the Year
Sarah Ortbal

Engineering Council of Birmingham Environmental Engineering Graduate Student of the Year
Julia Kendall
Also selected as ECOB Graduate Student of the Year

ASCE New Faces of Civil Engineering
Kelvin Hutchinson