Honors and Awards

Chien-tsung Lu

Engagement Award (Feb '23)

School of Aviation and Transportation Technology

Dr. Chien-tsung Lu is an aviation professor at Purdue University School of Aviation & Transportation Technology. With a rich background that includes leadership roles such as Chairman of Qingdao Airlines and dean at Yantai Nanshan Aeronautical College, his influence has extended globally. Renowned for his outstanding research in aviation safety and risk management, Dr. Lu has received prestigious awards like the Purdue Fellow and UAA John Lauber Safety Award. He has authored over 70 scholarly works and established collaborative initiatives...

Peng Hao Wang

Thumbs Up Award (Feb '23)

Purdue University

Composite materials consist of two or more materials combined to achieve specific structural properties. To improve aircraft design and maintenance, Dr. Wang innovates composite materials and studies their sustainability for the aircraft maintenance environment. The use of composite materials promises stronger and more fuel efficient aircraft, but can be difficult to repair. Dr. Wang and his team develop composite repair and recycling techniques to improve the sustainability of composite materials.

Nathalie Duval-Couetil

Outstanding Contributions to Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education (Jan '23)

Deshpande Foundation

Entrepreneurship is an essential economic activity that is often learned through experience. Beyond developing an entrepreneurial mindset and skills in students, Dr. Duval-Couetil examines what explicit and implicit factors attract or hinder the participation of diverse individuals. Working to inspire involvement in entrepreneurship, Dr. Duval-Couetil interacts with students through academic programming and observes through her work with the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-CorpsTM).

Alejandra Magana

Outstanding Leadership in Globalization Award (May '24)

Purdue Polytechnic

Learning in STEM fields can be difficult because of complex and abstract concepts. Dr. Magana investigates how educators can leverage the senses of sight and touch to help students better understand abstract STEM concepts as well as computational model-based reasoning to support skills like problem solving. Dr. Magana pairs cyberlearning technologies with traditional instruction to better understand how students learn and help deepen understanding of complex STEM topics.

Dominic Kao

ACM CHI Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews (Jan '23)

ACM

My research interests are in virtual worlds, games, and education. I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, a M.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta. In my research, I am interested in building virtual worlds and leveraging existing ones, primarily towards the goals of understanding how virtual worlds influence people, and developing best practices for developing games and learning environments.

Chad Laux

Outstanding Faculty in Engagement Award (May '24)

Purdue Polytechnic

Dr. Laux is currently Associate Professor of Computer & Information Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette and has developed a concentrated area in Lean Six Sigma where he teaches Lean Six Sigma Systems at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels in Computer & Information Technology. His teaching attracts a wide variety of student majors including Computer & Information Technology, Industrial Engineering Technology, Supply Chain Management Technology, and Healthcare Policy and Management.

Peng Hao Wang

Best Presentation Award (Jan '23)

South Asia Institute of Science and Engineering

Composite materials consist of two or more materials combined to achieve specific structural properties. To improve aircraft design and maintenance, Dr. Wang innovates composite materials and studies their sustainability for the aircraft maintenance environment. The use of composite materials promises stronger and more fuel efficient aircraft, but can be difficult to repair. Dr. Wang and his team develop composite repair and recycling techniques to improve the sustainability of composite materials.

Greg Strimel

Charles B. Murphy Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (Mar '23)

Purdue University

To increase a student's design capabilities and help ensure that every student has the opportunity to act, think, and learn like an engineer, Dr. Strimel studies how engineering and technology instructional interventions affect design cognition and performance. To empower the workers of the future, Dr. Strimel promotes problem-solving and other 21st century skills by investigating how to best teach engineering design to P-12 students.

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