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