University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering

College Faculty Awards

Grainger Engineering faculty are innovators. Their pioneering approaches to teaching and research are world-renowned, and each year the College internally recognizes a select group of these faculty for their achievements.

Arijit Banerjee
  • 2020 Everitt Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence
David Cahill
  • 2020 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award
Qian Chen
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Girish Chowdhary
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Brian Cunningham
  • 2021 Everitt Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence
Nora El-Gohary
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Elif Erketin
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Randy Ewoldt
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Derek Hoiem
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Pinshane Huang
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
  • 2021 Grainger College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
Raluca Ilie
  • 2021 Collins Award for Innovative Teaching
Paul Jensen
  • 2020 Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award
Ashish Kulkarni
  • 2020 Ross J. Martin Award
Ranjitha Kumar
  • 2020 Rose Award for Teaching Excellence
Svetlana Lazebnik
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Cecilia Leal
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Minjoo Lee
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Leon Liebenberg
  • 2021 Rose Award for Teaching Excellence
Virginia Lorenz
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Jian Peng
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Chandra Radhakrishnan
  • 2021 Rose Award for Teaching Excellence
Alexander Schwing
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Huseyin Sehitoglu
  • 2021 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award
Mats Selen
  • 2020 Rose Award for Teaching Excellence
Julia Shelton
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Diwakar Shukla
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Sanjiv Sinha
  • 2021 Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award
Andrew Smith
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor
Edgar Solomonik
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Dallas Trinkle
  • 2020 Collins Award for Innovative Teaching
Rizwan Uddin
  • 2020 Grainger College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
Arend van der Zande
  • 2021 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professor
Jamison Watson
  • 2021 Ross J. Martin Award
Yang Zhang
  • 2020 Dean's Award for Excellence in Research for Associate Professor