Points of Pride

Faculty

• U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement & Support of Education (2012)
• Several teaching awards including: ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Medal (2011), Florida Professor of the Year, SAE International Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award
• Prestigious NSF awards including: Four NSF CAREER Awards (Two in 2011), One NSF PECASE Award, One NSF Research Initiation Award
• Four ASME Fellows, One ASM Fellow, One SME Fellow, One ASEE Fellow, One AAAS Fellow
• Two USF Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Awards
• USF Kosove Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Service Award (2013)
• USF Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award
• USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2012)
• USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award
• ASME Distinguished Service Award

Students

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) awarded to Laura Byrnes-Blanco (2013)
• ASME Student Engineer of the Year Awarded to Mason Chilmonczyk (2012) and Abigail Lambert (2011)
• ASME Young Professional of the Year Awarded to Nyssa Masters (2011)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to Joel Cooper (2011)
• U.S. Department of Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to PhD graduate, John Shelton (2011)
• USF Provost Teaching Assistant Award presented to Dan Miller (2011)
• Best Student Paper Award from Florida Chapter of Acoustical Society of America submitted by Onursal Onen under the direction of Dr. Rasim Guldiken (2010) entitled, “A MEMS Ultrasonic Sensor Design for Early Ovarian Cancer Detection.”
• USF ASME student section won first place in the college division of the Emerald Coast Pensacola Electrathon Classic
• Our students come from over 35 countries from around the world