Faculty Honors and Awards

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Rivera Reyes receives best paper award from IEEE Education Society
10/9/18

Presentacion Rivera Reyes, an assistant teaching professor in the newly established Department of Engineering Education, received the Theodore E. Batchman Best Paper Award at the 2018 Frontiers in Education Conference.

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Yuan named Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition
9/25/18
Junsong Yuan, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The award recognizes his contribution to “human action and gesture analysis” in the field.
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Meng named Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
9/5/18

Hui Meng,a  professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University at Buffalo, has been named a Fellow of ASME. The designation recognizes her outstanding achievements in mechanical engineering.

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5 faculty from SEAS receive UB exceptional scholar, innovative teacher awards
7/31/18
Five faculty from SEAS were among the eighteen UB researchers and teachers that have been named recipients of the university’s 2018 Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation awards.
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Wu receives international bridge and structural engineering award
6/27/18
Teng Wu, a faculty member specializing in structural, bridge and wind engineering, received the 2018 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) prize for his contributions to structural engineering.
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Two from SEAS receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards
5/16/18
Kui Ren and Terri Nusstein from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been named recipients of the 2018 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence.