Early Career Honors

NATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL HONORS

Faculty Early Career Grants

• American Chemical Society (ACS) – Doctoral New Investigator Award
• Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation – Young Investigator Award
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – Young Faculty Award
• DuPont Young Professor Award
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) – Director’s New Innovator Award
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators
• National Science Foundation (NSF) – Presidential/Young Investigator/CAREER Grants
• Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
• Sloan Research Fellowships
• U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Award
• U.S. Army Research Laboratory – Army Research Office Young Investigator Award
• U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research – Young Investigator Award
• Wallace H. Coulter Foundation – Early Career Award

Faculty Early Career Honors

• American Association for Cancer Research NextGen Stars Program
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 35 Under 35 Award
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) – Frederick Emmons Terman Award
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Research Council – Curtis W. McGraw Research Award
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) – Young Engineering Educator Award
• Anita Borg Institute – Women of Vision Award
• Biocom Life Science Catalyst Award
• Construction Industry Institute Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation Award
• Diverse Issues in Higher Education – Emerging Scholars
• Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) – Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical and Computer Engineer Award
• MD + DI’s 40 Under 40
• MIT Technology Review – 35 Innovators Under 35
• National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium
• National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium
• Popular Mechanics – Breakthrough Awards
• Popular Science – Brilliant 10

Construction Industry Institute (CII) Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation (CETI) Award

Burcin Becerik-Gerber

Stephen Schrank Early Career Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Award

Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems and Computer Science

Qiming Wang

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering