College of Engineering and Information Technology announces award winners
The George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock honored nearly 100 awards winners during the college’s annual awards ceremony on April 27.
Earlier in the day, students from the college displayed their research and capstone projects during the third annual EIT Open House.
The event was sponsored by Arkansas Research Alliance, Bernhard TME Engineering, Harrison Energy Partners, Little Rock Regional Chamber, Mainstream Technologies, and VCC.
The awards winners include:
EIT College Awards
Laura Butler – Outstanding Associate Degree Graduate Award
Hugh Benfer – Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree Graduate Award
Hadi Salman – Outstanding Master’s Degree Graduate Award
Li-hsin Chang – Outstanding Master’s Degree Graduate Award
Yanyan Li – Outstanding Ph.D. Degree Graduate Award
EIT Student Support Center Undergraduate Awards
Jason Simmons – Third Place
Yu Nie – Second Place
Justin Parker – First Place
EIT Graduate Awards
Suzan Anwar – Third Place
Adewale Obadimu – Second Place
Evan Xiangwe – First Place
EIT Abstract Awards
Sandeep Munot – Third Place
Shashank Khaire – Second Place
Pablo Centeno – First Place
Elevator Speech Awards
Sandeep Munot – Honorable Mention
Harrison Blume – Honorable Mention
J’Von Jackson – Honorable Mention
Eric Brasby – Honorable Mention
Madhuri Ghorpade – Honorable Mention
Trigun Maroo – Grand Prize
Mainstream Technologies Awards
Ruipeng Zhang – Applied Innovation Award
Karen Watts – Professional Presentation Award
Tuja Khaund – Complete Solution Award
Arkansas Research Alliance Awards
Adewale Obadimu – Third Place
Suzan Anwar – Second Place
Jaimes Krutz – First Place
Department of Earth Science Awards
Kayla Bolin, Jason Spencer, Jason Simmons, and Callie Pace – 2018 Field Camp Award
Rebecca Bishop and Tyler Kee – Outstanding Laboratory Assistants
Luke Tyhurst – Laboratory Assistant of the Year
Matt Carey – Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Matt Carey and Tyler Kee – Outstanding Service Award
Aaron Baggett – Outstanding Graduate Student
Jason Simmons – Outstanding Senior Award
Olivia Pate – Philip and Marietta Kehler Endowed Scholarship Recipient
Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering Awards
Nicole Compton, Jonathan Henderson, David Greenwood, Amanda Hall, Jonathan Picking, Sandeep Munot, Daniel Trotta, and William Beggs – Excellence Award for Academic Scholarship
Department of Engineering Technology Awards
Christa Hindman – Freshman Award
Gregory Riley – Sophomore Award
Abdellatif Elmansouri – Junior Award
Cory Fortson – Senior Award
Elias Perez Reyes – Freshman Award
Pablo Centeno – Sophomore Award
Steven Swaffar – Junior Award
Chris Kelly – Senior Award
Anthony Elkins, Robert Hurst, Trent Smith, and Spencer Young – Senior Project Award
Matthew Hood – Senior Project Award
Christopher Bohner – Departmental Service Award
Garret Rich – Outstanding Graduate Award
Matthew Hood – Outstanding Graduate Award
Gordon Ward IV – Outstanding Graduate Award
Zachary Setzer – Outstanding Graduate Award
Department of Computer Science Awards
Peyton Laughley – Outstanding Freshman Award
Connor Stegeman – Outstanding Sophomore Award
Cindy Monterroz – Outstanding Junior Award
Thomas Goss – Outstanding Graduating Senior Award
Tanner Marshall – Outstanding Service Award
Yanyan Li – Outstanding Research Award
Chen Xu – Outstanding Master Student Award
Ramiro Serrano – Outstanding First Year Doctoral Student Award
Suzan Anawar – Outstanding Publication Award
Connor Young – Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
Department of Information Science Awards
Eric Grasby – Outstanding Student
Evan Alden – Outstanding Student Ambassador
James Watts – Outstanding Web Design Student
Zachary Randolph – Outstanding Web Design Student
April Lim – Outstanding ITEC Student
UA Little Rock/UAMS Graduate Program in Bioinformatics Awards
Ujwani Nukala – Outstanding Doctoral Student
Dan Li – Excellence in Research Award
Sunil Nokku – Outstanding M.S. Project
Li-Hsin Chang – Outstanding Master’s Award
Shilpa Karma Konda – Outstanding Service Award
Yumeng Ye – Outstanding Research Award
Bingyi Zhong – Outstanding Service Award
Yu Nie – Outstanding Research Award
Dr. Daniel Pullen – Outstanding Alumni Award
Department of Systems Engineering Awards
John Graham – Outstanding Sophomore Award
Damon Wallace – Outstanding Sophomore Award
Andrew Cherry – Outstanding Junior Award
Patrick Elliot – Outstanding Junior Award
Andrew Lockhart – Outstanding Senior Award
Anderson Banihirwe – Outstanding Senior Award
Shelby Wingate – Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award
Bailey Barnes – Successful Doctoral Student Award
Sheng Sang – Successful Doctoral Student Award
He Zang – Successful Doctoral Student Award