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