The annual College of Engineering Awards Banquet sponsored by Tau Beta Pi took place April 17, 2018 at the Hilary J. Boone Center. Representative Sannie Overly, a 1989 civil engineering graduate from the University of Kentucky, gave the keynote address. The awards, arranged by department, are below.

College of Engineering Awards
Engineering Alumni Association Senior Leadership Award: Sydney Norman
Lou Takacs Engineering Co-op Award: Alison Crupper, David Oswalt
Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education: Jeffrey Seay
  
Tau Beta Pi Awards
Most Outstanding Senior: Sydney Norman
Most Outstanding Graduate Student: Jack White
Most Outstanding Staff: Ilka Balk
Most Outstanding Professor: Suzanne W. Smith
Dr. Bruce L. Walcott Tau Beta Pi Most Outstanding Service Award: Isabel Escobar
  
F. Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering
Outstanding Teacher: Sridhar Sunderam
Outstanding Graduate Student (Masters): Nicholas Kohrs
Outstanding Graduate Student (Doctoral): Ahmed Bahrani
  
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
Frank Woeste Award: Eric Vanzant
Outstanding Junior: Eric Vanzant
Outstanding Senior: Amanda Williams
Outstanding Teacher: Alicia Modenbach
Outstanding Experiential Learning: Kourtnie Ruber
  
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
AIChE Outstanding Senior Member: Will Davis
Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Student: Lauren Mehanna
Outstanding Chemical Engineering Junior Award: Hannah Dvorak (Honorable Mentions: Monica Alden, Rebeckah Fairchild, Thomas Ostertag, Brad Wilson)
Outstanding Chemical Engineering Senior Award: Abby Munsterman (Honorable Mentions: Ryan Blood, Robert Brooks, Katherine Ruwe, Luke Wesley)
Outstanding Chemical Engineering Graduate Student: Angela Gutierrez, Carolyn Jordan
Outstanding Chemical Engineering Teacher Award: Sarah Wilson
Outstanding Materials Engineering Junior Award: Nick Telesz
Outstanding Materials Engineering Senior Award: Matthew Hollinden
Outstanding MSE Graduate Students: Tyler Maxwell; Xiaowen Zhan
Outstanding Materials Engineering Teacher Award: John Balk
  
Department of Civil Engineering
Outstanding Junior: Stephen Day
Outstanding Senior: Freddy Lause
Outstanding Graduate Student: Travis Watts
Outstanding Faculty: Gabriel Dadi
  
Department of Computer Science
Outstanding Academic Performance: Logan Hickey, Aaron Mueller, Tristan Basil, Dillon Pulliam
Outstanding MS Student: Jeevith Bopaiah
Outstanding PhD Student: Ye Yu
Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Md. Tariqul Islam
Outstanding Graduating Senior: Sydney Norman
Outstanding Teacher: Mirek Truszczynski
Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship: Xinxin Zuo
  
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alex Romanowitz Memorial Award: Luke Wormald
Robert L. Cosgriff Award: Elizabeth Foster
Outstanding Computer Engineering Junior: Daniel Dopp
Outstanding Computer Engineering Senior: Stephanie McCormick
Outstanding Electrical Engineering Junior: Tanner Shepherd
Outstanding Electrical Engineering Senior: Cole Richardson
Outstanding Teacher in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Aaron Cramer
  
Department of Mechanical Engineering
ASME Bluegrass Section Outstanding Scholars: Virginia Smith; Zachary Oakes; Gabriel Myers; Adam Claus; William Sanders, IV; Chih-Hsuan Hung; John Higgins
J.W. May Achievement Award: Sarah Cox
Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Sophomore: Jack Riordan
Outstanding Junior: Mfon-Abasi Itama
Outstanding Senior: Gabriel Myers
Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Yangyang Wu
Outstanding Master’s Student: Devin Sparks
Outstanding Doctoral Student: Stephen Grib
ASME Outstanding Faculty: Christine Goble
  
Department of Mining Engineering
Outstanding Junior: Timothy Watkins
Outstanding Senior: Chandler Absher
Academic Excellence Award: Trevor Rosania, Chandler Absher
Junior Academic Achievement Award: Sarah Fay
Outstanding Faculty: Jack Groppo