Excellence in Mentoring Award

This award is established to confer honor upon individuals whose inspiration and contributions to faculty, staff, or student development are truly significant. This award is also established to honor any individual who has mentored students or colleagues or has advised student clubs/organizations.

Eligibility

  • All faculty and staff in the College of Engineering are eligible.
  • Past recipients are not eligible for a period of five years after receiving the award.

Selection

A committee will be appointed by the Dean of Engineering to select award recipients.

Nomination Process

Nominations may be initiated by College of Engineering staff, faculty, and administrators. Each nomination must, however, be submitted to the chair or director of the candidate’s academic unit for review and approval prior to submission to the Dean’s Office. Once the nomination process has concluded, the respective department chair for each faculty nominee or manager for each staff nominee will be contacted to complete a Recommendation Form before all materials are sent to the appropriate Awards Committee for evaluation.

The nomination packet should consist of ONE pdf file submitted through the Nomination Form below (multiple submissions for the same nomination will not be accepted) containing the following:

  • one letter of nomination including the names of the nominator(s) and the nominee which should include the rationale for the nomination and pertinent accomplishments; the letter will be preferably one page and a maximum of two pages in length;
  • a maximum of three letters of support from current or former students and/or Engineering colleagues.

Nomination Form


If you have any questions, please email fac-staff-awards@coe.neu.edu.

Past Recipients

2025 Josep Jornet ECE
2025 Yiannis Levendis MIE
2025 Andrew Gillen FYE
2024 Joshua Gallaway ChE
2024 Annalisa Onnis-Hayden CEE
2024 Barry Satvat ChE
2023 Krystal Ristaino Undergrad Advising
2023 Carolyn Lee-Parsons ChE
2023 Yingzi Lin MIE
2022 Kaushik Chowdhury ECE
2022 Sagar Kamarthi MIE
2022 Kathryn Schulte Grahame FYE
2021 Manny Melachrinoudis MIE
2021 Jasmine Sun ARC
2021 Mofei Xu MGEN Co-op
2020 Laura Meyer MGEN Co-op
2020 Marilyn Minus MIE
2020 Sandra Shefelbine MIE
2019 Cheryl Arruda MIE Co-op
2019 Deniz Erdogmus ECE
2018 Ozlem Ergun MIE
2018 Nikolai Slavov BioE
2017 April Gu CEE
2016 Dana Brooks ECE
2016 Andrew Gouldstone MIE
2015 Jackie Isaacs MIE
2014 Allen Soyster MIE
2013 Richard Harris Student Services
2013 Hameed Metghalchi MIE
2012 Anand Asthagiri ChE
2012 Rachelle Reisberg Student Services
2007 David Kaeli ECE
2006 Beverly Jaeger MIE
2006 Albert Sacco, Jr. ChE