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 |