Faculty and Staff Awards and Honors


Candice Bauer

• 2004-2005 Region IX Young Engineer Award

Cahit A. Evrensel

• 2004 Fullbright Lecturing Award

Marti Fricano

• June 2006 UNR Employee of the Month

Allen B. Gates

• 1976-77 MIT Sloan Fellow
• 1974 Naval Weapons Center Technical Director's Award

Faramarz Gordaninejad

• 2006 UNR Outstanding Researcher of the Year
• 2003 Gunnerman Award for Scientific Excellence
• 2000 UNR Foundation Professor
• 1999 ASME Fellow
• 1998 UNR Lemelson Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Miles Greiner

• 2008 Lemelson Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Nevada, Reno, College of Engineering, Awarded May 6
• 2006 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), December
• 2004 ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Division G.E.O. Widera Literature Award, co-authored the Outstanding Technical Paper in Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
• 2003 Outstanding Technical Paper - ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference
• 2000 UNR Senior Faculty Mentor Award

Yanyao Jiang

• 2005 China Outstanding Young Investigator Award
• 2000 NSF Career Award

Kwang J. Kim

• 2011 UNR Foundation Professor Award
• 2006 Lemelson Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• 2005 Co-author of Best Resarch Poster, "Yang-Song"
• 2002 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
• 1997 Best Paper Award - ASME Advance Energy Systems Division / HPD

Shen-Yi Luo

• Congratulatory Letter from Senator Richard Bryan for technical publication

Faruk Taban

• 2002 Nevada Charter School Alliance Leadership Award
• 2000 UNR Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Eric L. Wang

• 2003 F. Donald Tibbitts Distinguished Teacher Award
• 2001 ASEE Outstanding Teaching Award - Pacific Southwest Section
• 1997 UNR Lemelson for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Richard A. Wirtz

• 2002 UNR Foundation Professor Award
• 2001 UNR Lemelson Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• 1990 ASME Fellow