The ECE Student Awards Committee solicits nominations of outstanding students in six categories. In addition, seven more undergraduate awards will be chosen and given by the School of ECE and by the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, and an eighth – the Colonel Oscar P. Cleaver Award – will be determined by the ECE Graduate Committee.
Faculty and staff members only can submit nominations via the online form. Questions can be directed to Professor Durgin.
Additional awards are given by either the Eta Kappa Nu honor society or the ECE Graduate Committee. These honors are as follows:
Eta Kappa Nu, the ECE honor society, recognizes the sophomore computer engineering student with the highest scholastic average. This award consists of a $500 check and a plaque.
Previous recipients:
- 2002: Jon Perry Entwistle
- 2003: Ryan Jesse Pirkl
- 2004: G. Wallace Tennille
- 2005: R. Reeve Ingle
- 2006: Christos Theodoridis
- 2007: Jagdish Ramakrishnan
- 2008: Tian Kai Woon
- 2009: Duncan Osborn
- 2010: Sean Austen McGee
- 2011: Adam Kitain
- 2012: Pooja Modi
- 2013: Qisi Wang
- 2014: Aditya Garg
- 2015: Alexander Popescu
- 2016: Kristine L. Scott
- 2017: Kaiming “Jack” Guan
- 2018: Ranveer Uppal
- 2019: Andrew Gauker
- 2020: Lucas Kenzo Katayama
- 2021: William Buxton
- 2022: Clifford Yao
- 2023: Ethan Fox
This award was first presented in 2019, recognizing the most outstanding computer engineering sophomore. The previous recipients listed above were presented with the award when it was known as the Outstanding ECE Sophomore Scholar Award, where the recipient was chosen from among all electrical engineering and computer engineering sophomores.