Faculty
| Year | Professor | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Ron Faller | 2017 John Melvin Motorsports Safety Award |
| Yong-Rak Kim | Holling Family Master Teacher Award/UNL University‐Wide Teaching Award | |
| Elizabeth Jones | Holling Family Distinguished Engineering Educator Award | |
| Chungwook Sim | Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award | |
| John Stansbury | Olsson Associates Engineering Faculty Excellence Award | |
| Yong-Rak Kim | College Distinguished Teaching Award | |
| Elizabeth Jones | UNO Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award | |
| 2017 | Shannon Bartelt-Hunt | Selected for Big Ten Leadership Program |
| Yong-Rak Kim | Best Paper Award at 2017 MAIREINFRA International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure | |
| Ron Faller, Jennifer Schmidt | Transportation Research Board Practical Paper Award, Transportation Research Board Best New Innovation Paper Award | |
| Tian Zhang | ASCE State of the Art Award | |
| David Admiraal | Olsson Associates Faculty Teaching Excellence Award | |
| Gary Krause | Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Teaching Award | |
| Shannon Bartelt-Hunt | Student Impact Award: Outstanding Advisor | |
| Gary Krause | Holling Family Distinguished Senior Faculty Teaching Award | |
| Jinying Zhu | Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award | |
| Yusong Li | Holling Family Master Teacher Award/University of Nebraska-Lincoln University‐Wide Teaching Award | |
| Larry Rilett | College Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award | |
| Chungwook Sim | Daniel P. Jenny Research Fellowship | |
| Richard Wood | Parents' Recognition Award | |
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2016 |
Yusong Li | Maher and Lorees Tadros Faculty Recognition Award |
| Aemal Khattak | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award | |
| Yong-Rak Kim | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award | |
| Tian Zhang and John Stansbury | Selected by the ASCE for 2016 Rudolph Hering Medal for paper entitled “Contributions of Internal and External Fouling to Transmembrane Pressure in MBRRs: Experiments and Modeling,” Journal of Environmental Engineering, June 2015. | |
| Tian Zhang | Awarded University Research Grand Prize by American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientist for project Kinetics and Mechanistic Framework for Pollution Control Using Activated Iron Processes. Award shared with Texas A&M University | |
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2015 |
Jennifer Schmidt and Ron Faller | 2015 Best Paper Award from the Roadside Safety Design (AFB20) Committee at the 2016 Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting in Washington |
| Xu Li | Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award | |
| Libby Jones | Holling Family Distinguished Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award | |
| Aemal Khattak | Holling Family Master Teacher Award/UNL University-Wide Teaching Award | |
| Xu Li | Edgerton Innovation Award | |
| Yusong Li | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award | |
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2013 |
Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | College Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award - Associate Professor |
| Xu Li | College Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award - Assistant Professor | |
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2012 |
Elizabeth "Libby" Jones | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award |
| Gary Krause | College of Engineering Holling Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award (Omaha) | |
| Yusong Li | College of Engineering Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award | |
| Karen Schurr | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award | |
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2011 |
Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award |
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2010 |
Tian Zhang, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Research Award |
| Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | College of Engineering Edgerton Innovation Award | |
| Gary Krause | College of Engineering Holling Family Distinguished Senior Faculty Teaching Award | |
| 2009 | Bruce I. Dvorak | College of Engineering Holling Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award (Lincoln) |
| Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | College of Engineering Holling Family Master Teacher Award (Omaha) | |
| Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | UNL University-wide Teaching Award | |
| Yong-Rak Kim | College of Engineering Faculty Recognition Award | |
| Massoum Moussavi | UNO Alumni Association College of Engineering Faculty Award | |
| Midwest Roadside Safety Facility - Dean Sicking, Director | Roadway Safety Foundation (RSF) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Roadside Safety Award for the Midwest Guardrail System | |
| 2008 | Massoum Moussavi | College of Engineering Holling Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award (Omaha) |
| Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | College of Engineering Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award | |
| Gary Krause | UNO Alumni Association College of Engineering Faculty Award | |
| Christopher Y. Tuan | College of Engineering Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award (Associate Professor) | |
| Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt | College of Engineering Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award (Assistant Professor) | |
| Laurence R. Rilett | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award (Professor) | |
| Bruce I. Dvorak | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award (Associate Professor) | |
| Yong-Rak Kim | College of Engineering McNeel Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award | |
| 2007 | Laurence R. Rilett | College of Engineering Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award (Professor) |
| Dean Sicking | United States of America - National Medal of Technology | |
| Andrzej Nowak | Medal Politechniki Warszawskiej (Award of National Professorship), Nation of Poland | |
| Yong-Rak Kim | National Science Foundation CAREER Award | |
| Yong-Rak Kim | College of Engineering Faculty Research and Creative Activity | |
| 2006 | Civil Engineering Department | College of Engineering J.E. Lagerstrom Outstanding Department |
| John Stansbury | College of Engineering Holling Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award (Omaha) | |
| Elizabeth G. Jones | College of Engineering Faculty Service Award (Associate Professor) |
Staff
| Year | Student | Awards / Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Shaobin Li | Earned LCA Student Leadership Award from The American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA). |
| Hossein Bahmyari | First place graduate poster award at AREMA2018 poster competition | |
| Ernest Tufuor | Earned ITS Heartland Award | |
| Paulina Ochoa | Recognized as a Model of Student Leadership for University of Nebraska-Lincoln ASCE Student Chapter | |
| Binyam Bekele | 2nd place in student paper competition at EMI2018 | |
| Shaobin Li | Earned Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship | |
| Hamid Bazgirkhoob | College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Sussan Moussavi, Matthew Ross | Outstanding Seniors | |
| Negin Kananizadeh | 2017 Department of Civil Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award | |
| Simin Akbariyeh and Bernard A. Frankl | 2017 Department of Civil Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award Honorable Mention | |
| Huiyuan Liu | Named a 2018 Traffic Safety Scholar | |
| Narendra Patel and Rami Ziara | Awarded 2018 College of Engineering Graduate Student Conference Travel Grant | |
| Capri Keeler and Clayton Malone | Chi Epsilon scholarship recipients | |
| Capri Keeler | Inducted into Innocents Society | |
| Deanna Ringenberg | Earned AWWA Small Systems Division Best Paper Award | |
| Flavia Mendonca, Elsayed Salem, Dulitha Fredrick | Richard DeLorm Scholarship from American Concrete Institute (ACI) Nebraska Chapter winners | |
| Ernest Tufuor | Nebraska’s Graduate Student Assembly's Graduate Travel Student Award grant winner | |
| 2017 | Mahdieh Khedmati, Hani Alanzi | Best Paper Award at 2017 MAIREINFRA International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure |
| Elizabeth Railsback | NE ASCE Outstanding Student Award | |
| Mahdieh Khedmati | Milton Mohr Graduate Fellowship Award | |
| Hamzeh Haghshenas | College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award | |
| Hanh Phan | Top paper at 2017 UNL Research Fair | |
| Ernest Tufuor | Commendation Award at 2017 UNL Research Fair | |
| Elizabeth Regier | Undergraduate Honor at UNL Research Fair | |
| Shelly Jorgensen | TMS Best Paper - Undergraduate | |
| Jodi Sangster | Folsom Distinguished Dissertation Award | |
| Brandt Humphrey | Folsom Distinguished Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention | |
| Sneha Kommidi | Othmer Fellowship | |
| 2016 | Brandt M. Humphrey | Department of Civil Engineering Outstanding Thesis Award |
| Jodi Sangster | Department of Civil Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award | |
| Yun Zhang | Department of Civil Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention | |
| Murtaza Nalwala | eSAB Student of the Month: October | |
| Derek Schriner | John A Focht Chi Epsilon National Scholarship Recipient | |
| 2015 | Quinn Brandt | Myron M. Blume CE Scholarship |
| Allison Brock | John H.D. Davis P.E. Memorial Scholarship | |
| Matthew Eames | Albert R. & Karen S. Schultz Scholarship | |
| Francisco Garcia | Miller and Associates Consulting Engineers Scholarship + Sorkin Scholarship | |
| Ann Gensichen | UNL Civil Engineering | |
| Amirfarrokh Iranitalab | Miller and Associates Consulting Engineers Scholarship | |
| Shelly Jorgensen | John E. Olsson Civil Engineering Scholarship | |
| Austin Kellogg | Jim D. and Faye D. Rasmussen Civil Engineering Scholarship + Sorkin Scholarship | |
| Kayla Martin | Sorkin Scholarship | |
| Garrett Martindale | John W. Hossack Engineering Scholarship | |
| Saleasha McClurge | Jim D. and Faye D. Rasmussen Civil Engineering Scholarship | |
| Sara Mollamohammada | Donald E. & Marjorie Wiles Fellowship | |
| Cody Preisler | Albert R. & Karen S. Schultz Scholarship | |
| Riing Riing | UNL Civil Engineering | |
| Derek Schriner | John E. Olsson Civil Engineering Scholarship | |
| Pranav Shakya | Albert R. & Karen S. Schultz Scholarship | |
| Steven Stauffer | Albert R. & Karen S. Schultz Scholarship | |
| Joana Torres | Sorkin Scholarship | |
| 2012 | Sarah McClure | Outstanding Senior - Lincoln program |
| Jessica Branigan | Outstanding Senior - Omaha program | |
| 2011 | Matthew Harvey | Outstanding Senior - Lincoln program |
| Kristin Palik | Outstanding Senior - Omaha program | |
| 2010 | John Michael Higgins | Honors Convocation |
| Andric Hofrichter | Phi Kappa Phi | |
| Thomas James Dowse | Outstanding Senior - Lincoln program | |
| Melissa Letak | Outstanding Senior - Omaha program | |
| 2009 | Yue “Claire” Zhou | Honors Convocation |
| Gregory Seib | Outstanding Senior - Lincoln program | |
| Kenton McBride | Outstanding Senior - Omaha program |
Highlights:
- Amy Jewell, a senior from Omaha, has been selected as a NASA Nebraska Space Fellow for a summer 2012 internship at Boeing in Seattle, Wash. The award, presented by NASA Nebraska Space Grant, includes a $9,000 stipend. Jewell will also submit an abstract for presentation at the Aeronautics and Space Science section of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences in April 2013.
- Johnny Chacon, a junior, was selected in May 2012 as a scholarship recipient from the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA). He received the PB Rail Engineering Scholarship from the association. Chacon served as president of SHPE in 2008 and 2009, and was president of the SSS Student Board in 2008. He is currently participating in a 15-month full-time co-op at Union Pacific.
- Andric Hofrichter was awarded the 2012 John A. Focht National Chi Epsilon Scholarship ($3,000) in honor of his outstanding academic work, as well as his significant and enthusiastic involvement in extracurricular activities, particularly Chi Epsilon, the National Civil Engineering Honor Society.