College of Engineering and Information Technology Announces Award Winners

UA Little Rock’s George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology recently held its annual awards ceremony on May 3. This year’s award winners include: EIT College Awards Outstanding Associate Degree – Christa Hindman Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree – Patrick Elliot and Jason Simmons Outstanding Master’s Degree – Jeffrey Baggett Outstanding Ph.D. – Dan Li EIT Undergraduate Awards First Place – Samuel Willis Second Place – Jacob Jackson Third Place – Blake Johnson EIT Graduate Awards First Place – Abbas Al-Wahhamy Second Place – Xinming Li Third Place – Kiran Bandeli EIT Abstract Awards First Place – Coenrad de Jager Second Place – Xinming Li Third Place – Wei Dai Elevator Speech Awards Grand Prize – Coenrad de Jager Honorable Mention – Lamarcus Coleman, Kassandra Castrillo, Trigun Maroo, Elias Reyes, and Samuel Willis Mainstream Technologies Awards Applied Innovation Award – Chance Melby Professional Presentation Award – Zaire Husband Complete Solution Award – Lamarcus Coleman Arkansas Research Alliance Rewards First Place – Zachary Stine Second Place – Thomas Marcoux Third Place – Ahmed Alazzawi Austin Bridge and Road Awards Best Construction – Kassandra Castrillo Best Use of Technology in Construction – Donna Mantione Best of the Best in Construction and Civil Engineering – Benjamin Beggs Faculty Excellence Awards Research – Dr. Mary Yang Teaching – Dr. Jin Wook Lee Service – Dr. Beth McMillan Department of Computer Science Awards Top Freshman – Gaige Ehrenworth Top Sophomore – Zach Johnson Top Junior – Alexander Rutledge Top Senior – Colin Chu Top Master’s – Kyle Hooks Top Ph.D. – Suzan Anwar Best Teaching Assistant – Lamarcus Coleman Best Graduate Assistant – Matt Kennett Best Mentor – Connor Young Outstanding Service – Mark Barnes Outstanding Volunteer – Nicholas Stewart Awesome Attitude – Zaire Husband Most Dedicated Graduate Student – Alexander Jaeger Rookie of the Year – Cecily Mobely Most Thriving – Cindy Monterroza Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering Excellence Award for Academic Scholarship – Benjamin Wells, Blake Johnston, Cody Davis, Mason Cato, Alex Graves, Jose Alvarez, Rachel Runnels, Stephen Enderlin, Joseph Hickey, Rajeev Lakanavarapu, and Benjamin Beggs ASCE Student Chapter Service Award – Kassandra Castrillo Department of Earth Sciences Presentation at a Professional Meeting – Matt Horn, David Hough, Tyler Kee, Patrick Paladino, Olivia Pate, Kalyca Spinler, and Jason Spencer 2019 Field Camp Award – Amelia Gould, Tristan Gregory, Izak Harville, Jacob Holland, Matt Horn, Patrick Paladino, and Cody Smith Outstanding Laboratory Assistant – Izak Harville, Shannon Bione, David Hough, and Aleigha Smith Laboratory Assistant of the Year – David Hough Outstanding Graduate Assistant – Kalyca Spinler Outstanding Senior – David Hough Central AR Gem, Mineral, and Geology Society Field Camp Scholarship – Matt Horn, Olivia Pate, and Cody Smith Sigma Gamma Epsilon Graduating Students – David Hough, Olivia Pate, and Kalyca Spinler W.A. Tarr Award – Olivia Pate Philip L. and Marietta T. Kehler Endowed Scholarship – Juliann Fiallos Department of Engineering Technology Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology Freshman Award – Tony Hester Sophomore Award – Alexandria Smith Junior Award – Gregory Riley Senior Award – Daniel Cox Outstanding Senior Project – Ali Alwan Mechanical Engineering Technology Freshman Award – Thomas Lewis Sophomore Award – Noah French Junior Award – Abdulrahman Alotaibi Senior Award – Pablo Centeno Outstanding Senior Project – Ethan Hutchins, James Joiner Departmental Awards Departmental Service Award – Jannice Bonilla Outstanding Graduating Mechanical Engineering Technology BS – Gordon B. Ward IV Outstanding Graduating Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology BS – Abdellatif Elmansouri Outstanding Graduating Mechanical Engineering Technology AET – Danial Habib Al-Farah Outstanding Graduating Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology AET – Samuel Zargari Outstanding Graduating BS – Gordon B. Ward IV Outstanding Graduating AET – Christa Hindman Department of Information Science BS Information Science Outstanding Graduate – Karen Watts Outstanding Senior – Michael DiCicco and Brock Butler Outstanding Junior – Brenda Nyangweso and Trenton Burroughs Student Entrepreneurial Award – Luke Tyhurst and Benjamin Harrison BA Web Design and Development/ITEC Minor Outstanding Senior – Sunny Singh and Leslie Haller Outstanding ITEC Senior – Ryan Hood Bioinformatics Graduate Program Outstanding Research Award – Dan Li Outstanding Service Award – Skylar Connor Information Science Graduate Program (COSMOS) Outstanding Research Award – Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Adewale Obadimu, and Zachary  Stine Information Quality Graduate Program Graduate Certificate in Information Quality Outstanding Research Award – Kris Anderson MS in Information Quality Outstanding Graduate – Yumeng Ye Outstanding Research and Academic Achievement – Marinda Huisamen and Coenrad de Jager Outstanding Service and Academic Achievement – Yi Yin Ph.D. in Information Quality Outstanding Graduate – Yu Nie Outstanding Research and Academic Achievement – Zhan Wang, Awaad Al-Sarkhi, and Bingyi Zhong Outstanding Research and Service – Xinming Li IQ Academic and Service Recognition – Stephen Wallace, Brian Blake, Loy Rogers, James True, Anthony Davis, Awaad Al-Sarki , Kevin Casey, Bingyi Zhong, Wei Dai, Janaki Koppulu, Purviben Parmar, Huzaifa Fahad Syed, Wenxue Jiang, Lisa Novier, Divya Dugyala, Priyanka Bejugam, and Swetha Tamma Department of Systems Engineering Mechanical Systems Engineering (MSEG) Outstanding Sophomore – Caleb Head Outstanding Junior – Hayden Boyd Outstanding Senior – Andrew Cherry Outstanding Capstone Project – Andrew Cherry, Kendall Butzlaff, William Kerr, Nikki Mullen, Richard Nowroski, Estevan Padilla, and Spencer Sullivan Electrical and Computer Engineering (ESCE) Outstanding Sophomore – William Brockman Outstanding Junior – Ahmad Abu Hantash Outstanding Senior – Brock Mudie Outstanding Capstone Project – Brock Mudie, Josh Crowder, and Craig Jimmerson In the upper right photo, Dr. Jin Wook Lee (third from left) is shown with the Outstanding Capstone Project Award winners from the Department of Systems Engineering – Andrew Cherry, Kendall Butzlaff, William Kerr, Nikki Mullen, Richard Nowroski, Estevan Padilla, and Spencer Sullivan.