Annual Spring Awards Celebration

Ohio University Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology Annual Spring Awards Celebration

Friday, April 12, 2024
Ohio University | Nelson Commons

6-6:30 p.m. Cocktails

6:30-7:15 p.m. Buffet Dinner

7:15-8:30 p.m. Awards Program

Welcome and Introductions

Dr. Patrick Fox
Dean, Russ College of Engineering and Technology

Outstanding Employee Awards

This is the 22nd awarding of the Russ College’s Outstanding Administrative, Technical and Classified Employee Awards. The awards recognize employees who are nominated by Russ College colleagues for outstanding, results-based performance.

• Classified
• Technical
• Administrative

Faculty Awards

Marvin E. and Ann D. White Awards

• Departmental Research Awards
• Departmental Teaching Awards

Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Awards

• Russ Outstanding Research Paper Award
• Russ Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Russ Outstanding Undergraduate Instructional Faculty Teaching Award

Closing Remarks

Dr. Patrick Fox

About the Awards

Outstanding Employee Awards

This is the 22nd awarding of the Russ College’s Outstanding Administrative, Technical and Classified Employee Awards. The awards recognize employees who are nominated by Russ College colleagues for outstanding, results-based performance.

Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Awards

In 1981, Fritz Russ, BSEE ’42, HON ’75, and his wife, Dolores, generously established an endowment that has since then supported two awards, for research and teaching, to be presented annually by the Russ College of Engineering and Technology. Since that time, a new instructional faculty award has been created as well.

Russ Outstanding Research Paper Award

The Russ Outstanding Research Paper Award recognizes excellence in research and scholarship exhibited by the faculty of Russ College. Papers published in refereed journals are submitted for review. An ad hoc committee consisting of previous award recipients reviews and ranks the papers. In the case of co-authors, only Russ College faculty and staff authors are listed.

2024 Nominees

*Bold name indicates submitter

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • “X80 U-bend Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) Crack Tip Dissolution by Fast Corroding Desulfovibrio Ferrophilus IS5 Biofilm” by Zhong Li, Jike Yang, Shihang Lu, and Tingyue Gu
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • “Modified Iowa Formula for Buried Pipes with a Partial Loss of Soil Support in Its Invert Region due to Perforation Holes and Soil Erosion” by Teruhisa Masada
• Computer Science
  • “Holistic FOD Detection via Surface Map and YOLO Networks” by Sirui Song, Xi Qi, Jackson Brengman, Chris Bartone, and Jundong Lui
• Electrical Engineering
  • “Paramagnetism in Microwave-Synthesized Metal-Free Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots” by Flavia P. N. Inbanathan, Katherine Leslee A. Cimatu, David C. Ingram, Uriel Joseph Erasquin, Kiran Dasari, Muhammad Shehzad Sultan, Muhammad Sajjad, Vladimir Makarov, Brad R. Weiner, Gerardo Morell, Payman Sharifi Abdar, and Wojciech M. Jadwisienczak
• Engineering Technology and Management
  • “PPAP as an Applied Student Capstone Project” by Neil Littell, Mustafa Shraim, and Daniel Sheets
• Mechanical Engineering
  • “3D Printing of Sustainable Coal Polymer Composites: Study of Processing, Mechanical Performance, and Atomistic Matrix−Filler Interaction” by Logan E. Veley, Chinonso Ugwumadu, Jason P. Trembly, David A. Drabold, and Yahya Al-Majali

Russ Outstanding Undergraduate Tenure-Track Faculty Teaching Award

The Russ Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award recognizes the efforts of the faculty to provide Russ College students with out standing teaching and advising. Nominees are selected based on student teaching evaluations, and the recipient of the award is selected by members of the Engineering Ambassadors based on interviews.

2024 Nominees

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  • Marc Singer
• Civil Engineering
  • Daniel Che
• Computer Science
  • Shawn Ostermann
• Electrical Engineering
  • Sabrina Ugazio
• Engineering Technology and Management
  • Neil Littell
• Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • Tao Yuan
• Mechanical Engineering
  • Brian Wisner

Russ Outstanding Undergraduate Instructional Faculty Teaching Award

The Instructional Faculty Russ Teaching Award recognizes a faculty member whose position is to teach up to four courses per semester, as well as to advise student groups. These positions differ from the tenured/tenure-track faculty role, and therefore should be recognized separately for their service to teaching and student group advising.

2024 Nominees

• Aviation 
  • George Armann
• Civil Engineering
  • Yanhui Fang
• Computer Science
  • Nasseef Abukamail
• Engineering Fundamentals
  • Stephen Shadik
• Engineering Technology and Management
  • Daniel Sheets
• Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • Omar Alhawari
• Mechanical Engineering
  • Sam Malakoutikhah