CEE Awards and Honors 2023
The annual CEE Awards recipients were announced during a ceremony banquet on May 17 at the Samberg Conference Center. Congratulations to all the students, postdocs, faculty and staff for their outstanding work, exceptional achievement and commitment to the values and mission of the department.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
CEE Leadership and Community Award – Vivian Cheng
CEE Best Undergraduate Research Award – Simone Lassar
The Juan Hermosilla (1957) Prize – Karissa Wenger
The Leo (Class of 1924) and Mary Grossman Award – Karen Li
The Paul L. Busch (1958) Prize – Catherine (Cat) Lu
GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
CEE Best Doctoral Thesis – Yunteng Cao
The Trond Kaalstad (Class of 1957) Fellowship – Autumn Deitrick & James Brice
Maseeh Annual Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant – Tian Zhao
The Tucker-Voss Award – Maggie Smith
POSTDOCTORAL AWARDS
CEE Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring, Teaching and Excellence Award – Meghan Blumstein
STAFF AWARDS
CEE Excellence Award – Jay Matthews & Daria Levear
FACULTY AWARDS
Maseeh Excellence in Teaching Award – Prof. Tal Cohen
Distinguished Service and Leadership Award – Prof. Saurabh Amin
Samuel M. Seegal Prize (SoE) – Prof. Heidi Nepf
Ole Madsen Mentoring Award – Prof. Dave Des Marais
MIT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AWARDS
Infinite Mile Award – Jay Matthews & Jarina Shrestha
To see past award winners and learn more about the award categories, visit: https://cee.mit.edu/cee-awards/