University at Buffalo (UB)
Student Awards
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Undergraduate Student Awards
This award is presented by Niagara Frontier Chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers
1964 S.W. Tomaszewski
1965 J.F. Kreitz
1966 R.G. Adams
1967 P.W. Shields
1968 M.R. Petroski
1969 P.E. Przestawski
1970 William A. Pesch
1971 W.R. Fairchild
1972 R.F. Deckro
1973 T.P. Wiatrowski
1974 M.P. Sullivan
1975 J.N. Braaten
1976 Carl W. Chermak
1977 Peter J. Perrello
1978 Mary Rose Fischer
1979 Mark C. Kopera
1980 Kevin J. Hagerty
1981 Kelly L. Greene
1982 William G. Wild
1983 Daniel J. Boltz
1984 Paul N. Couvutsakis
1985 Nancy J. Cama
1986 Ronnit Usherovitz
1987 Marshall R. Merims
1999 King Wong
In honor of the first chairman of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
1984 Molly Mcmanus
1985 Kay Hoftiezer
1986 Adam Bernstein
1987 Lawrence Pettit
1988 Ann Bisantz
1989 Anthony Sucato
1990 John Voit
1991 William Utter
1992 Michael Walton
1993 Despina Saparella
1994 Katherine Bahnsen
1995 Ping-yangtsang
1996 Jessyca Nadler
1997 Rodney Googer
1999 Karianne Paolo
2000 Andres Losada
2001 Pascal Cohen
2003 Lisa Murawski
2004 Theresa Moehle
2007 Matthew Henchey, Thomas Szalkowski, Christopher Wahl
2008 John Coles, Megan Hannigan, Devon Mcmastor
2009 Abdulrhman Alshibake, Nicholas Fortenbery, Keith Mackenzie
2010 Mark Fenzl, Scott Frenzel, Emily Landesberg, Nevin Mutlu
2011 Hung Duc Phan, Zhihao Liu
2012 Hao Ting Chen, Jenna Mae Swarthout, Marie Catalano
2013 Curtis Boyle, Giovanni Madejski
2014 Christopher Diaz
2015 Julie Fetzer, Zachary Steever
2016 Daniel Seaberg, Junjie Fang
2017 Kathryn Lukasiewicz, Scott Maloney
2018 Esther Jose
2019 Chantel Warner
2020 Claire Feng, Alex Trombini, Sarah Koeng
2023 Joseph Behar and Nina Gomez
Given by Robert F. Hanley, BS '90, in recognition of ISE Professors Warren Thomas and Mark Karwan.
2007 Gabreil Abdella
2008 Matthew Henchey, Andrew Widjaja
2009 Christian-harris Officer, John Kostadinov
2010 May Cheung
2011 Jenna Wegrzyn
2012 May Cheung, Elizabeth Newell
2013 Jonathan Macadam
2014 Kyle Cunningham
2015 Brock Hoffman, Nicholas Kreuter
2016 Christopher Huff, Bryant Chen
2017 Kevin Dillon
2018 Scott Maloney
2019 Esther Jose, Sabrina Giacona, Makayla Roma
2020 Samir Michael, Michel Ramos, Sabrina Giacona
2023 Thomas Allan
2023 Amir Yamout, Brian Le, Xiaoyue Liu, Eric Flores, Rafael Contreras
2023 Andrew Jimenez
2023 Lily Wagner, Victoria Sujka
2019-2023 Madison Dailey
Graduate Student Awards
2015 Rahul Swamy Anangur Vairavel
2016 Priyanka Nikam
2019 Tanahiry Escamilla
2020 Atharva Patke
2023 Arvind Singh Rathore
In honor of John Zahorjan. Professor of Industrial Engineering (1983-1999) who mentored internships, led the devolopment of the Masters of Engineering Program and was deeply respected and loved by his students.
2000-01 Witawat Mark Wattanapanom
2001-02 Morris Green Jr.
2002-03 Morris Green Jr., Pierre St. Louis
2003-04 Morris Green Jr., Pierre St. Louis
2006-07 Gunvanti Marathe, Deepika Vij
2007-08 David Payne, Karan Kumar Vaidya
2012-13 Emily Landesberg
2013-14 Jonathan Braun, Nick Vitello
2014-15 Johnathan Braun
2015-16 Levi Rickard, Rachel Petrone
2016-17 Rachel Petrone, Levi Rickard
2017-18 Carter Mann, Conner Kyle
2018-19 Brandon Buesching
2020-21 Kira Andrade Solano
2022-23 Parry Tu, Meixiang Mei, Jenny Moya, Jared Hallberg, Lakshay Sharma
2018 Meghan Donahue
2017-2018: Jida Huang
2018-2019: Ali Pala
2019-2020: Xi Zheng, Luis Segura (Honorable Mention)
2022-23: Prasangsha Ganguly
2017-2018: Ningji Wei
2018-2019: Ridwan Aziz
2019-2020: Puneet Agarwal, Rishabh Bhandawat (Honorable Mention), John Fontecha (Honorable Mention)
2022-23: Zhiyuan Wei, Conor Wurst (Honorable Mention)
2017-2018: Biplab Bhattacharya
2018-2019: Zach Steever
2019-2020: John Fontecha, Rishabh Bhandawat (Honorable Mention)
2022-23: Ian Unson
2023 Sean Dineen, Mark Coon (Honorable Mention)
Student Club Awards
Student Chapter Annual Award Summa Cum Laude: 2023, 2017, 2013, and 2012
Chapter Recognition, Gold: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
HFES Outstanding Student Chapter:
- Silver: 2018
- Silver: 2016
- Gold: 2015
- Silver: 2012
- Honorable Mention 2015
- eTools Alternate 2013