Honors & Rankings

Rankings

U.S. News & World Report undergraduate numbers are published in the fall for the coming year; graduate rankings are formulated in early spring for the current year.

National Academy of Engineering

The NAE has more than 2,000 peer-elected members and international members, senior professionals in business, academia, and government who are among the world’s most accomplished engineers. They provide the leadership and expertise for numerous projects focused on the relationships between engineering, technology, and the quality of life.

The following Mechanical Engineering faculty are members of the NAE: Alice M. Agogino, David B. Bogy, George Lietmann, Roberto O. Ritchie, Masayoshi Tomizuka and S. Shankar Sastry.

NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award

The CAREER program is a foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

The following Mechanical Engineering faculty have received the CAREER award: Alice M. Agogino, Francesco Borrelli, Van P. Carey, Michael Gollner, Kosa Gocher-Lambert, Roberto Horowitz, Tony M. Keaveny, Kyriakos Komvopoulos, Dennis K. Lieu, Liwei Lin, Fai Ma, Sara McMains, Mohammad R. K. Mofrad, Grace D. O'Connell, Lisa Pruitt, Shawn Shadden, Lydia Sohn, and Hannah Stuart.

Distinguished Teaching Award

The DTA is intended to recognize individual faculty for sustained performance of excellence in teaching. Above and beyond an individual exemplary class, this kind of sustained excellence in teaching incites intellectual curiosity in students, inspires departmental colleagues, and makes students aware of significant relationships between the academy and the world at large.

The following Mechanical Engineering faculty have received the DTA: Dennis K. Lieu, Oliver M. O'Reilly, Kameshwar Poolla, Lisa Pruitt, and Tarek I. Zohdi.

Endowed Chairs & Professorships

American Bureau of Shipping Chair in Ocean Engineering - M. Reza Alam

FANUC Chair in Mechanical Systems - Francesco Borrelli

A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering - Van P. Carey

Howard Penn Brown Chair in Mechanical Engineering - Chris Dames

Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering - Michael Frenklach

A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering - Costas Grigoropoulos

James Fife Endowed Chair - Roberto Horowitz

James Marshall Wells Academic Chair in Mechanical Engineering - Liwei Lin

Tien-Modak Chancellor’s Chair in Engineering - Philip S. Marcus

Byron and Elvira Nishkian Chair in Structural Engineering - Panayiotis Papadopoulos

Cadence Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering - Kameshwar Poolla

Lawrence Talbot Chair in Engineering - Lisa Pruitt

Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Chair in Mechanical Engineering - Lydia Sohn

Don M. Cunningham Endowed Professorship in Mechanical Engineering - Hannah Stuart

Cheryl and John Neerhout Jr. Distinguished Professorship - Masayoshi Tomizuka

Will C. Hall Family Chair in Engineering - Tarek I. Zohdi