Major Faculty Awards

NSF Presidential Young Investigator awards

  • Hassan Aref - ESM, Presidential Young Investigator, 1985 (received while elsewhere)
  • Khai D. T. Ngo - ECE, Presidential Young Investigator, 1989 (received while elsewhere; joined ECE in 2006)
  • Yilu Liu - ECE, Presidential Young Investigator, 1992
  • Ted Rappaport (no longer at VT) - ECE, Presidential Young Investigator, 1993

NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow awards

  • Yilu Liu - ECE, Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1994
  • Frank Chen - ISE, Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1996 (received while elsewhere)
  • Marc Edwards - CEE, Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1996 (received while elsewhere)

NSF PECASE awards

  • Sanjay Raman - ECE, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2000
  • Michael Garvin - CEE, PECASE, 2004 (received while elsewhere)
  • Sandeep Shukla - ECE, PECASE, 2004
  • Harry Dankowicz (no longer at VT) - ESM, PECASE 2004
  • Tom Martin - ECE, PECASE, 2006

NSF Young Investigator Awards (changed to CAREER in 1994)

  • Panos Diplas - CEE
  • Bill Knocke - CEE
  • Jimmy Martin - CEE
  • Dan Gallagher - CEE
  • Charles Reinholtz - ME
  • Kenneth S. Ball - ME (received while elsewhere)

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards

  • Nancy Love - CEE 1995
  • George Filz - CEE 1995
  • Guo-Quan Lu - MSE 1995
  • John Little - CEE 1996
  • Jack Lesko - ESM 1997
  • Mary Kasarda - ME 1998
  • Julio Martinez - CEE 1998
  • Kim Forsten-Williams - ChE 1999
  • Sanjay Raman - ECE 1999
  • Amy Bell - ECE 1999
  • Don Leo - ME 2000
  • Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones - CS 2000
  • Naren Ramakrishnan - CS 2000
  • Eunice Santos - CS 2000
  • Michael Hsiao - ECE 2001 (received while elsewhere)
  • Anthony Songer - CEE 2001 (received while elsewhere)
  • Erik Westman - MinE 2002
  • Craig Woolsey - AOE 2002
  • Sandeep Shukla - ECE 2002
  • Dan Stilwell - ECE 2002
  • Srinidhi Varadarajan - CS 2002
  • Doug Bowman - CS 2003
  • Michael Garvin - CEE 2003 (received while elsewhere; joined CEE in 2005)
  • Kirk Cameron - CS 2004 (received while elsewhere; joined CS in 2005)
  • Peter Vikesland - CEE 2004
  • Thomas Hou - ECE 2004
  • Dimitrios Nikolopoulos - CS 2004 (received while elsewhere; joined CS in 2006)
  • Thomas Martin - ECE 2005
  • Allen MacKenzie - ECE 2005
  • Scott Huxtable - ME 2006
  • Linsey Marr - CEE 2006
  • Pavlos Vlachos - ME 2006
  • Maura Borrego - ME 2006
  • Dennis Hong - ME 2007
  • Yong Xu - ECE 2007
  • Patrick Schaumont - ECE 2007
  • Masoud Agah - ECE 2008
  • Ali R. Butt - CS 2008
  • Nakhiah Goulbourne - ME 2008
  • Leigh McCue - AOE 2008
  • Leyla Nazhandali - ECE 2008
  • Mark Paul - ME 2008
  • Jung-Min Park - ECE 2008

Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Awards

  • Dan Stillwell - ECE 2003
  • Thomas Hou - ECE 2003

Army Research Office Young Investigator awards

  • Mark Stremier - ESM 2004 (received while elsewhere; joined ESM in 2006)

DOE Early Career Principal Investigator

  • Dimitrios Nikolopoulos - CS 2005 (received while elsewhere)

Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award for Most Promising Engineer or Scientist

  • Rafael Davalos - Biomedical Engineering 2006