Faculty/Staff Awards: Faculty

Edgerton Innovation Award

	Assistant Professor
2010	Shannon Bartelt-Hunt
2011	Wei Qiao
2012	Jinsong Huang
2013	Linxia Gu
2014	Ming Han
2015	Xu Li
2016	Carrick Detweiler
2017	Liyan Qu
2018	Ben Terry
2019	Christos Argyropoulos
2020	Yuguo Lei
2021	Shudipto Dishari
2022	Rajib Saha

Holling Family Distinguished Senior Faculty Teaching Award (formerly Outstanding Teacher Award)

Year	Professor
1990	Joseph V. Benak
1991	Richard Gilgert
1992	Russell Nelson
1993	K. P. "Raju" Rajurkar
1994	Khalid Sayood
1995	Dennis Schulte
1996	F. Fred Choobineh  Natale J. Ianno
1997	Dennis R. Alexander
1998	Yen-ching Pao
1999	George Meyer
2000	Spyros S. Magliveras
2001	Dennis Schulte
2002	Ram Narayanan
2003	Mehrdad Negahban
2004	Kevin D. Cole
2005	Dennis R. Alexander
2006	James Hendrix
2007	N/A
2008	Dean Eisenhauer
2009	N/A
2010	Hamid Sharif
2011	N/A
2012	N/A
2013	N/A
2014	N/A
2015	Clarence Waters
2016	Greg Bashford
2017	Kevin Grosskopf
2018	George Gogos
2019	Ayse Kilic
2022	Florin Bobaru

 

Year	Associate Professor
1990	Paul Harmon
1991	Roger Sash
1992	Leendert Kersten
1993	A. John Boye
1994	Jerald L. Varner
1995	Wieslaw M. Szydlowski
1996	Rollin Hotchkiss
1997	Ram Narayanan
1998	Robert Throne
1999	A. John Boye
2000	Mostafa Khattab
2001	Gary L. Krause
2002	Barry Rosson
2003	Wieslaw M. Szydlowski
2004	N/A
2005	N/A
2006	Lim Nguyen
2007	N/A
2008	N/A
2009	Kevin Cole Mehrdad Negahban
2009	Gary Krause
2010	N/A
2011	George Morcous Lily Wang
2012	N/A
2013	Stuart Bernstein Ece Erdogmus
2014	Mahmoud Alahmad Yaoqing Yang
2015	Terri Norton
2016	Shannon Bartelt-Hunt
2017	Gary Krause
2018	Witawas Srisa-an
2019	Jena Shafai Asgarpoor
2020	Xu Li Suzette Person
2021	Michael Kocher

Henry Y. Kleinkauf Family Distinguished New Faculty Teaching Award - Assistant Professor

Year	Assistant Professor
1990	Massoum Moussavi
1991	Robert Cook Ram Narayanan
1992	Rollin Hotchkiss Maher Tadros
1993	Steven Axtell Qing Jiang
1994	Kevin D. Cole M. Susan Hallbeck
1995	Barry Rosson Robert Williams
1996	Paul Savory Robert Throne
1997	Kevin Murphy Sarah Ryan
1998	Bruce Dvorak Robert Palmer
1999	Lance C. Pérez Timothy Wentz
2000	Steve Goddard Dmitri Rizos
2001	Stephanie G. Adams Shane M. Farritor
2002	Kevin W. Houser Joseph A. Turner
2003	David Admiraal Ruqiang Feng
2004	Florin Bobaru Matthew Morley
2005	Stuart Bernstein Wayne Jensen
2006	Ece Erdogmus Witawas Srisa-an
2007	Erick C. Jones George Morcous
2008	Shannon Bartelt-Hunt Greg Bashford
2009	Yaoqing (Lamar) Yang
2010	Mahmoud Alahmad Carl Nelson
2011	Terri Norton Yi Qian
2012	Deepak Keshwani Yusong Li
2013	Josephine Lau
2014	Carrick Detweiler Lucia Fernandez-Ballester
2015	Xu Li Benjamin Terry
2016	Chris Bourke Sidy Ndao
2017	Jinying Zhu
2018	Chungwook Sim
2019	Richard Wood
2020	Shudipto Dishari Jae Sung Park
2021	Vishnu Reddi Ruiguo Yang
2022	Neal Lewis Keegan Moore

Holling Family Master Teacher Award / UNL University-Wide Teaching Award

Year	Award #1
2003	Kevin W. Houser Barry Rosson
2004	David Jones Gary L. Krause
2005	Paul Savory
2006	Bruce Dvorak Lance C. Pérez
2007	David Admiraal Wayne Jensen
2008	Jeffrey Shield
2009	Shannon Bartlett-Hunt Mustafa Gursoy
2010	Dennis Alexander Wieslaw Szydlowski
2011	Carl Nelson Kevin Van Cott
2012	Leen-Kiat Soh Lily Wang
2013	Roger Sash Curtis Weller
2014	Paul Harmon Mehrdad Negahban
2015	John Barton Aemal Khattak
2016	Sohrab Asgarpoor Deepak Keshwani
2017	Yusong Li Joseph Turner
2018	Ece Erdogmus Yong-Rak Kim
2019	Angie Pannier Sangjin Ryu
2020	Hunter Flodman Jiong Hu
2021	Jena Shafai Asgarpoor Khalid Sayood
2022	Moe Alahmad Stephanie Valentine

Holling Family Distinguished Engineering Educator Award (every three years)

Year	Award
2003	Dennis Schulte
2006	Paul Savory
2009	Lim Nguyen
2012	Roger Sash
2015	Kevin Cole
2018	Libby Jones
2021	Hunter Flodman

Holling Family Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Inclusive Teaching

Year
2021	Alisa Gilmore
2022	Richard Wood

Holling Family Distinguished Teaching Award for Innovative Use of Instructional Technology

Year
2006	Gregor Henze
2007	Erick C. Jones
2008	Carl A. Nelson
2009	Herb Detloff
2010	Haorong Li
2011	Yaoqing Yang
2012	Yi Qian
2013	Alisa Gilmore
2017	Kevin Cole
2018	Yi Qian
2019	Jena Shafai Asgarpoor

UNO Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award

Year
2003	Clarence Waters
2004	William W. Holmes
2005	Stuart Bernstein
2006	Gregor P. Henze
2007	Gary L. Krause
2008	Roger Sash
2009	Massoum Moussavi
2010	Won Mee Jang
2011	Roger Sash
2012	Hamid Sharif
2013	Alisa Gilmore
2014	Lim Nguyen
2015	Yaoqing Yang
2016	Stuart Bernstein
2017	David Yuill
2018	Libby Jones
2019	Chungwook Sim
2020	Michelle Eble-Hankins
2021	Seunghee Kim
2022	George Hunt

Holling Family Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award (Lincoln)

Year	Lincoln
2001	William Weins
2002	David Jones
2003	Bruce Dvorak
2004	Stephanie G. Adams
2005	Gary L. Krause
2006	Don J. Nelson
2007	Greg Bashford
2008	Timothy Wentz
2009	Bruce Dvorak
2010	N/A
2011	Dean Eisenhauer
2012	Dennis Shulte
2013	Kevin Cole
2014	Carl Nelson
2015	Mehrdad Negahban
2016	Karen Coen-Brown
2017	George Gogos
2018	Cody Stolle
2019	Joseph Turner
2020	Suat Irmak
2021	Christine Wittich

Holling Family Teaching/Advising/Mentoring Award (Omaha)

Year	Omaha
2001	N/A
2002	N/A
2003	Ronald K. Haggink
2004	N/A
2005	N/A
2006	John S. Stansbury
2007	N/A
2008	Massoum Moussavi
2009	Lily Wang
2010	Roger Sash
2011	Clarence Waters
2012	Gary Krause
2013	Stuart Bernstein
2014	Ece Erdogmus
2015	Libby Jones
2016	Hamid Sharif
2018	Yi Qian
2019	Jiong Hu
2020	Marc Maguire
2021	Lim Nguyen
2022	Hamid Sharif-Kashani

Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award

Year
1990	A. R. Peters
1991	Russell Nelson
1992	N/A
1993	N/A
1994	Dennis Schulte
1995	David Karner
1996	Kevin Murphy
1997	A. John Boye
1998	Robert Throne
1999	Robert Williams
2000	William Weins
2001	David Jones
2002	Robert Williams
2003	Dennis Schulte
2004	N/A
2005	N/A
2006	Don J. Nelson
2016	Benjamin Terry
2017	Gary Krause Angela Pannier
2019	Bruce Dvorak Carl Nelson Karen Stelling

College Faculty Research & Creative Activity Award

Year	Professor
1990	Dennis R. Alexander
1991	K. P. "Raju" Rajurkar
1992	Istvan Bogardi
1993	Ezekiel Bahar
1994	Frank Ullman
1995	Khalid Sayood
1996	K. P. "Raju" Rajurkar
1997	Milford Hanna / John A. Woollam
1998	Suprioy Bandyopadhyay
1999	Prabir Bhattacharya
2000	Dennis R. Alexander
2001	Ram Narayanan
2002	Natale J. Ianno
2003	Rodney J. Soukup
2004	Yuris A. Dzenis
2005	N/A
2006	Khalid Sayood
2007	Laurence R. Rilett
2008	Joseph A. Turner
2009	N/A
2010	N/A
2011	Hamid Sharif
2012	Susan Hallbeck
2013	Shane Farritor
2014	Suat Irmak
2015	Yongfeng Lu
2015	Yongfeng Lu
2016	Florin Bobaru
2017	Larry Rilett
2018	Sina Balkir
2019	Yong Rak Kim
2020	Angela Pannier
2021	Wei Qiao
2022	Yongfeng Lu

 

Year	Associate Professor
1990	Natale J. Ianno
1991	F. Fred Choobineh
1992	Mohamed Dahab
1993	Ram Bishu
1994	Prabir Bhattacharya
1995	Curt Weller
1996	Qing Jiang
1997	Brian W. Robertson
1998	Ram Narayanan
1999	Atorod Azizinamini
2000	Yuris A. Dzenis
2001	Robert Palmer
2002	Robert Throne
2003	Ruqiang Feng / Michael W. Hoffman
2004	Joseph A. Turner
2005	Yongfeng Lu
2006	Shane Farritor
2007	Won-Mee Jang
2008	Christopher Y. Tuan
2009	Ruqiang Feng
2009	Song Ci
2010	N/A
2011	Lim Nguyen
2012	Yong Cho
2013	Shannon Bartelt‐Hunt
2014	Carl Nelson
2015	Jinsong Huang
2016	Ron Faller
2017	Wei Qiao
2018	Jian Wang
2019	Xu Li
2020	Benjamin Terry
2021	Bai Cui
2022	Jinying Zhu

 

Year	Assistant Professor
1990	Ram Bishu
1991	F. Fred Choobineh
1992	Ram Narayanan
1993	M. Susan Hallbeck
1994	Stephen Reichenbach
1995	James Bonneson & Robert Palmer
1996	Brian W. Robertson
1997	Yuris A. Dzenis & Robert Williams
1998	John D. Reid
1999	Tian C. Zhang
2000	Lance C. Pérez
2001	Byrav Ramamurthy
2002	Joseph A. Turner
2003	N/A
2004	Steve. Goddard
2005	Xinwei Wang
2006	Erick Jones
2007	Yong-Rak Kim
2008	Shannon Bartelt-Hunt
2009	Haorong Li
2010	Carl Nelson
2011	Jinsong Huang
2012	Wei Qiao
2013	Jung Yul Lim Xu Li
2014	Ming Han
2015	Lameck Odhiambo
2016	Liyan Qu
2017	Hongfeng Yu
2018	Yufeng Ge
2019	Prahalada Rao
2020	David Yuill
2021	Christos Argyropoulos Brittany Duncan
2022	Fadi Alsaleem

Multi-Disciplinary Research Award

Year	Team Members
1997	Natale J. Ianno, Electrical Engineering; Peter Dowben, Physics; M. Langell, Chemistry
1999	Mohamed. Dahab, Civil Engineering; Wayne Woldt, Biological Systems Engineering
2004	Christopher Y. Tuan, Civil Engineering; Lim Nguyen, Computer Science & Engineering
2005	Hendrik J. Viljoen, Chemical Engineering; George Gogos, Mechanical Engineering
2006	Sina Balkir, Electrical Engineering; Jennifer I. Brand, Engineering Research; Peter Dowben, Physics & Astronomy, M. Susan Hallbeck, Industrial & Management Systems Engineering
2007	Shane M. Farritor, Mechanical Engineering; Stephen R. Platt, Mechanical Engineering; Dmitry Oleynikov, UNMC Dept. of Surgery
2008	N/A
2009	Li Tan, Engineering Mechanics
2010	Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Civil Engineering; William Kranz, Biological Systems Engineering;  Terry Mader, Animal Sciences; Charles Shapiro, Agronomy and Horticulture; David Shelton, Biological Systems Engineering; Daniel Snow, School of Natural Resources; Simon van Donk, Biological Systems Engineering; Tian Zhang, Civil Engineering
2011	DISCONTINUED

Faculty Service Award

Year	Professor
1990	Russell Nelson
1991	N/A
1992	Rollie Schnieder
1993	Gerald R. Bodman
1994	Dennis R. Alexander
1995	N/A
1996	Richard Hoffman
1997	Robert Grisso
1998	K. P. “Raju” Rajurkar
1999	Dennis Schulte
2000	Supriyo Bandyopadhyay
2001	Derrel Martin
2002	Rodney J. Soukup
2003	E. Terence Foster
2004	Barry Rosson
2005	N/A
2006	John A. Woollam
2007	N/A
2008	Laurence R. Rilett
2009	Andrzej (Andy) Nowak
2010	Rodney Soukup
2011	Clarence Waters
2012	Bing Chen
2016	Yongfeng Lu
2017	Carl Nelson Clarence Waters
2018	Suat Irmak
2019	Laurence Rilett
2020	Shane Farritor
2021	Bing Chen
2022	Angela Pannier

 

Year	Associate Professor
1990	Richard T. DeLorm
1991	Paul Harmon
1992	F. Fred Choobineh
1993	Mohamed Dahab
1994	John Rohde
1995	Ram Bishu
1996	Richard T. DeLorm
1997	Ram Narayanan
1998	A. John Boye
1999	W. Max Kirk
2000	B. Rosson
2001	Linda Swoboda
2002	Bruce. Dvorak
2003	Yuris A. Dzenis
2004	N/A
2005	N/A
2006	Elizabeth Jones
2007	N/A
2008	Bruce Dvorak
2009	Lily Wang
2010	Stuart Bernstein
2011	Ece Erdogmus
2012	Elizabeth "Libby" Jones
2013	Carl Nelson
2014	Yi Qian
2015	Linxia Gu
2016	Aemal Khattak / Yong-Rak Kim
2018	Alisa Gilmore
2020	Yusong Li Witawas Srisa-an
2021	Yufeng Ge
2022	Jiong Hu

 

Year	Assistant Professor
1990	Clifford Walton
1991	Rollin Hotchkiss
1992	M. Susan Hallbeck
1993	Suzanne L. Rohde
1994	Ram Narayanan
1995	Gary L. Krause
1996	Karen St. Germain
1997	Paul Savory
1998	Timothy Wentz
1999	Bruce Dvorak
2000	Charles Berryman
2001	Lance C. Pérez
2002	Stephanie G. Adams
2003	Terry Stentz
2004	Eveline Baesu
2005	David Admiraal
2006	Erick C. Jones
2007	Florin Bobaru
2008	N/A
2009	N/A
2010	N/A
2011	Shannon Bartelt-Hunt Terri Norton
2012	Zhigang Shen
2013	Yaoqing (Lamar) Yang
2015	Yusong Li
2017	Joe Luck
2018	David Yuill
2019	Hunter Flodman
2021	Andrew Harms
Year	Lecturer
2012	Karen Schurr

Dean's Lifetime Faculty Service Award

2018	Tim Wentz, Associate Professor Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
2022	Karen Coen-Brown, Emeritus Associate Professor of Practice, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

J.E. Lagerstrom Outstanding Department

1988	Agricultural Engineering
1989	Agricultural Engineering
1990	Biological Systems Engineering
1991	Biological Systems Engineering
1992	Biological Systems Engineering
1993	Mechanical Engineering
1994	Civil Engineering
1995	Civil Engineering
1996	Biological Systems Engineering
1997	Civil Engineering
1998	N/A
1999	N/A
2000	Industrial & Management Systems Engineering
2001	Biological Systems Engineering
2002	Civil Engineering
2003	Construction Management
2004	Mechanical Engineering
2005	Civil Engineering
2006	Civil Engineering
2007	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
2008	Architectural Engineering
2009	Computer & Electronics Engineering
2010	Construction Systems
2011	Biological Systems Engineering
2012	N/A
2013	Mechanical & Materials Engineering
2014	N/A
2015	N/A
2016	Biological Systems Engineering
2017	Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction