POINTS OF PRIDE

The students, faculty and staff of the Mechanical Engineering Department at USF are truly an outstanding group of individuals. Listed below are the awards and honors accumulated over recent years in recognition of their commitment and achievements:

Students

• Pendergast and Trahan ASME Student Engineers of Year

• USF Racing SAE Team Shines Again

• USF hosts ASME Regional Conference

• Pendergast wins at the 4th REU symposium

• Patel selected as ASME FWCS Student of the Year

• ASME Student Section Excels in Diverse Events at the ASME RAC Conference

• Stiber and Karelus selected as ASME FWCS Students of the Year

• ASME Student Section Wins 3rd Place in Interregional Competition

• Mini-Baja team placed first

• Nathan Collier receives Outstanding MS Thesis Award

• ASME Student Section Wins First Place

• Dennis Watkins receives ASME Student Engineer of Year Award

Staff

• USPS Senate, Quiet Quality Award

• USF Outstanding Staff Member Award

Faculty

• Dekker Elected ASEE Fellows

• Ron Mann receives ASME Faculty Advisor Award

• Kaw receives ASEE DELOS Best Paper Award

• Kumar receives University Scholar Award

• Kumar coauthors a book on Material Science

• Kaw elected Fellow of ASME

• Rahman selected as ASME FWCS Engineer of the Year

• Kaw selected as 2004 Florida Professor of the Year

• Kumar writes a review paper in prestigious journal

• Volinsky gets Best Presentation Award

• Kaw and Besterfield receive 2004 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award

• Kumar receives USF outstanding researcher award

• Kumar receives prestigious NIRT award from NSF

• Hess receives USF outstanding research award

• Ron Mann receives ASME Engineer of Year Award

• Alex Volinsky's fast breaking paper on Materials Science

• Francis Moussy receives a 2.2M research award to develop glucose sensor

• Autar Kaw receives Mechanics Educator Award

• Ashok Kumar gets NSF Career Award

• Stuart Wilkinson's GasRobot