Honors & Awards

Alpha Pi Mu National Awards 

• First place, best chapter competition – Alpha Pi Mu at Virginia Tech

Alpha Pi Mu National Scholarship Recipients

• Ruwaa Abu-Ageel – Robert Dryden Scholarship
• Kathryn Sloan – Paul E. Givens Diversity Scholarship
• Jia Dong – Alpha Pi Mu Scholarship
• Mollie McKee – Alpha Pi Mu Scholarship

IISE National Awards

• First place, James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence – Aziz Malouche
• Third place, James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence – Kathryn Sloan
• Second place, Pritsker Postdoctoral Dissertation Award – Cheolhei Lee

Virginia Tech Awards

• 2024 Graduate Student Service Award – Jia Dong
• Aspire! Award for Pursuit of Self-Understanding and Integrity – Joe D'Agostino 

External Awards and Recognition

• Sait Tunc – National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• Kowk Tsui – Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers

Internal Awards and Recognition 

• Dean's Awards for Excellence: Certificate of Teaching Excellence – Laura Savage 
• Virginia Tech Staff Career Achievement Award – Randy Waldron
• Academy of Faculty Service – Ran Jin 
• Principles of Community Award – ISE Diversity, Equity, and Incusion Committee 
• Pete White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Excellence – Kimberly Ellis 

HFES Student Chapter at Virginia Tech

Silver Level Award

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Manhua Wang

Alphonse Chapanis Award 

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

John Casali 

Oliver Hansen Outreach Award

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Ranjana Mehta 

Fellow of HFES

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Shiyu Deng/Jinwoo Oh

3rd Place, Health Care Technical Group Best Student Paper Award for: “Assessing Laparoscopic Surgical Skills of Trainees with Scene Independent and Dependent Eye Gaze Metrics.” 

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Jiayuan Dong, Md Shafiqul Islam, Manhua Wang 

Student Member with Honors Award

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Mungyeong Choe 

Honorable Mention Award

Awarded by: Korean HFES Affinity Group

Hayoun Moon 

Best Paper Award

Awarded by: Korean HFES Affinity Group

INFORMS Student Chapter

Magna Cum Laude Award

Awarded by: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Kwok Leung-Tsui

2023 Class of INFORMS Fellows

Awarded by: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Faculty and student recognitions include:

• Winner of IISE Manufacturing and Design Division Track Best Student Paper Competition: Rongxuan Wang, James Kong
  
• Winner of ProcessMiner Inc. QCRE Data Challenge Competition: Bo Shen, Raghav Gnanasambandam, Jihoon Chung
• Winner of Data Analytics and Information System Track mobile/web app competition: Rongxuan Wang, Yinan Wang, James Kong
• Winner of IISE Transactions Data Science, Quality and Reliability Best Paper Competition: Yinan Wang, Weihong "Grace" Guo, Xiaowei Yue
• Winner of IISE Transactions Design and Manufacturing Best Paper Competition: Yinan Wang, Kaiwen Wang, Wenjun Cai, Xiaowei Yue
• Finalist of IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Track Best Paper Competition: Jihoon Chung, James Kong
• Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Oustanding Early Career IE in Academia Award: Xiaowei Yue
• Innovation in Education Award: Natalie Cherbaka and Kimberly Ellis
• Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award: Don Taylor

Student award recipients include:

• Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2nd place: Yinan Wang
• First Place for the James Barany Student Award for Excellence: Jessica Aujla
  
• Second Place for the James Barany Student Award for Excellence: Amber Clauss
• Oustanding Capstone Award, 4th Place: Will Carlyle, Ashley Girod, Drew Martin, Sam Barnes, Zach Schwinger

Student scholarship recipients include:

• Kathryn Sloan, UPS Minority Student Scholarship
  
• Aziz Malouche, Dwight D. Gardner Scholarship
• Nabil Habib, Dwight D. Gardner Scholarship
• Emma Grace Woolsey, IISE Council of Fellows Scholarship
• Ann Osi, John S.W Fargher Scholarship

Ph.D. candidate Alexandria Rossi-Alvarez named the Virginia Tech Graduate Student of the Year. 

Ph.D. candidate Mohammed Baaoum was recognized with the Graduate Student Service Award. 

John Luksas won the Outstanding Masters Award, and Raghav Gnanasambandam won the Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy award. 

ISE students recognized with the Outstanding Service Award during Senior Symposium by the ISE Undergraduate Awards Committee include:

• Avintha Anumolu

• Amber Clauss

• Theresa Mull

• Allison Tieman 

Additional award winners include:

• Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, presented to Jarrett Johnson

• Outstanding Junior Award, presented to Kathryn Sloan 

• Outstanding Senior Award, presented to Jessica Aujla 

• ISE Advisory Board Don Taylor Leadership Award, presented to Marah Ghanem 

Amber Clauss and Theresa Mull (both B.S. ‘23), and Rongxuan Wang (Ph.D., ‘23)  were awarded national scholarships from Alpha Pi Mu, the honor society for industrial and systems engineering students. Of 11 national scholarships awarded, three belong to Virginia Tech ISE students.

Professor James Kong was recognized as the College of Engineering’s 2023 Outstanding Faculty Mentor award during the Virginia Tech Graduate School Awards Ceremony. 

Two ISE faculty were recognized at the 2023 College of Engineering Dean’s Awards Ceremony.

•     Natalie Cherbaka, Excellence in Teaching Award
•     Charlie Klauer, Excellence in Research Award