Awards

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize an untenured, tenure-track faculty member who has both significant research accomplishments at Tulane and demonstrated excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize an Associate Professor who has both significant research accomplishments and demonstrated excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a tenured professor who has both significant research accomplishments and demonstrated excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a significant achievement by a team of SSE faculty. This achievement can be in research, teaching, or service.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize exemplary teaching contributions and innovation, and excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility. Successful nominees will also have demonstrable records of student mentoring. Limited to Assistant Professors and Professors of Practice (Senior Professors of Practice are not eligible).

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize sustained, exemplary teaching contributions and innovation, and excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility. Successful nominees will also have demonstrable records of student mentoring. Limited to Associate Professors and first-term Senior Professors of Practice.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize sustained, exemplary teaching contributions and innovation and excellence in at least one other area of faculty responsibility. Successful nominees will also have demonstrable records of student mentoring.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize faculty who have contributed exceptionally to the mentoring of students, postdocs, or other faculty, outside of didactic teaching. This award is open to both tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize faculty who display a deep and sustained commitment to outreach and opportunity as an important part of Tulane’s educational mission as demonstrated by academic and outreach programs that show intellectual excellence and inclusion in service, teaching, and scholarship. Open to all faculty.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize an early-career staff member who has made exemplary contributions to the mission of SSE. The contribution can be directed towards administration, research, student engagement/teaching, or service/outreach. Limited to staff members with one to five years of service at Tulane and a minimum of one year in their current SSE role.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a mid-career staff member who has made exemplary contributions to the mission of SSE. The contribution can be directed towards administration, research, student engagement/teaching, or service/outreach. Limited to staff members with five to ten years of service at Tulane and a minimum of one year in their current SSE role.

Criteria: This award seeks to recognize a  staff member who has made outstanding contributions to the mission of SSE over the course of a career. The contribution can be directed towards administration, research, student engagement/teaching, or service/outreach. Limited to staff members with more than ten years of service at Tulane and a minimum of one year in their current SSE role.

2025

Collette Barnor - BME 
Toby Mendels - CBE 
Kiowa Wells - ENGP

2024

Alyssa Bockman - BME 
Hailey Hayes - CBE 
Bennett Hermanoff - ENGP 

2023

Ajay Raman - BME 
Andy Gontko - CBE 
Tess Kleanthous - ENGP

2022

Tyler Sweeney - BME 
Piper Stevens - CBE 
Austin Wolf - ENGP

2021

Carly Harad - BME 
Franziska Trautmann - CBE 
Robert Johnson - ENGP

2020

Mostafe Meselhe - BME 
Arjun Sree Manoj - BME 
Hannah Glazier - BME 
Dom Casanuovo - CBE

2025

Thomas Morris - BME 
Brenda Ellis - CBE

2024

Gabe Kobza - BME 
Sophie Slaughter - CBE 
Bethwel Tum - ENGP

2023

Meagan Kelly - BME 
Eva Gutt - BME 
Keefer Boone - BME 
Josh Coltrin - CBE 
Vanessa Dike - ENGP

2022

Preston Cremer - BME 
Iza Pelka - ENGP

2021

Gabriella Becerra - BME

2020

Stephan Hahn - BME

2025

Jude Blouin - BME 
Anna Catherine Nussbaum - CBE 
Ying Stock-Bordnick - ENGP

2024

Shayne Shelton - BME 
Julia Baratta - CBE 
Axel Nielsen - ENGP

2023

Sarah Littell - BME 
Matthew Geis - CBE 
Ben Vasquez - ENGP

2022

Caroline Culp - BME 
Ila Keshishian - CBE 
Elena Lompado - ENGP

2021

Charles Dranoff - BME 
Erick Burgess - CBE 
Matt Catalano - ENGP

2020

Chinwe Orie - BME 
Emma Rogers - BME 
Dyllan Muller - CBE 
Claire Davis - ENGP

2025

Noah Phillips - BME

2024

Jane O'Donnell - BME

2023

Anna Lejeune - BME

2022

Nathaniel Ethan Kim - BME

2021

Teagan Cronin - ENGP

2020

Stephanie Zhao - BME 
Peyton Gibler - BME

The Science and Engineering Outstanding Alum Award is the highest form of alumni recognition given by the School of Science and Engineering. The committee defines the recipient as: "One singularly successful individual who, through exemplary accomplishments and recognition, epitomizes the potential of a Tulane education and thereby brings credit and honor to the School and University."

• The recipient must be alumni of Tulane University.
• The recipient should have definable career accomplishments and/or excellence in their chosen field of endeavor.
• The recipient must positively impact their community.

The Science and Engineering Outstanding Young Alum Award is presented to a recent graduate, who like the Outstanding Alum Award is: "One singularly successful individual who, through exemplary accomplishments and recognition, epitomizes the potential of a Tulane education and thereby brings credit and honor to the School and University."

• The recipient must be alumni of Tulane University.
• The recipient must be 40 years or younger.
• The recipient should have definable career accomplishments and/or excellence in their chosen field of endeavor.

The Science and Engineering Outstanding Service alum award is presented to "those alumni who, through their dedicated and voluntary efforts to support the programs and mission of Tulane, express their gratitude to the School and ensure its enlarging impact on our community and future generations of students."

• The recipient must be alumni of Tulane University.
• The recipient must consistently demonstrate extraordinary commitment and service to advance Tulane SSE.
• The recipient must demonstrate voluntary service over an extended period of time within the Tulane community and beyond.

2025 Alumni Awards Recipients

Tulane Engineering Hall of Fame (1994 – 2006)

Individuals inducted into the Tulane University School of Engineering Hall of Fame should have accomplished a professional career marked by distinction and evidence of national or international recognition. Inductees should have demonstrated a long-term record of service and dedication to the Tulane University School of Engineering. The election of an individual to the Engineering Hall of Fame should serve not only to recognize and honor the individual, but should also serve to honor the School of Engineering. Hall of Fame induction is the highest School honor bestowed by the School of Engineering. Induction into the Tulane Engineering Hall of Fame takes place at the Society of Tulane Engineers Annual Meeting with the unveiling of a plaque in the Hall of Fame display area. The recipient is also recognized at the Engineering Commencement and, if he/she is still living, is asked to address the graduates and their guests.

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Outstanding Alumnus Award (1974 – 2005)

The recipient must be an alumna/us of the School and should have definable career accomplishments and/or excellence in her/his chosen field of endeavor. Other criteria that may be used include:

• Service to the University/School
• Service to the Community
• Volunteer Involvement
• Awards from Other Organizations
• Financial Contributions to the University/School

The award is conferred by the Dean of Engineering at the Society of Tulane Engineers Annual Meeting.

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Harold A. Levey Award (1959 – 2005)

Presented annually to recognize an alumna/us of the School for professional achievement during the five to ten year period after graduation. The award is for professional achievement in any area of Engineering activity and the recipient should have applied her/his Engineering knowledge in outstanding manner in design, inventions, developments, publications, or in administration or teaching. The award is conferred by the Dean of Engineering at the Society of Tulane Engineers Annual Meeting.

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All nominations are to be submitted via the nomination form. Nominations for 2027 will reopen in February 2027. Nomination requirements include:

1. Nomination letter with description of the awardee’s key contributions (~500 words)
2. Nominee’s CV

Nominations that fail to comply with all relevant submission requirements are subject to rejection without review by the SSE Honors & Awards Committee. Nominations may be initiated by any individual or group of students, staff, or faculty members. However, it is recommended that department/program chairs or appropriate unit committees coordinate the preparation of nominations and supporting materials. It is further recommended that each department/program nominate at most one individual for each award. Members of the SSE Honors & Awards Committee may nominate but will be recused from the discussions and evaluations where there is a conflict of interest.

The Dean, Associate Deans, and Department/Program Chairs of SSE, and members of the SSE Honors & Awards Committee are ineligible for the individual awards. Service in any one of these capacities for part of the academic year during which nominations are made is sufficient to preclude eligibility.

The Dean of SSE and members of the Honors & Awards Committee are ineligible for the Collaborative Team Award. A team will not be excluded from consideration for the Collaborative Team Award if administrators are a part of that team but have not played a leadership role on it. As such, Associate Deans of SSE and Department/Program Chairs are eligible for the Collaborative Team Award if: (a) there are at least two additional members of the team who are not part of the administration; and (b) the administrators who are on the team have not played a leadership role.

Eligibility for any award requires at least a 50% appointment in SSE.

Previous award winners are eligible for the same award. However, nominations of faculty/staff members for an award they have won previously must show evidence of substantial new activity that merits a repeat award.

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