UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Teaching Innovations and Awards

Our record of research productivity is balanced by our dediction to teaching. Our faculty have been honored many times over for both their innovative research and for their excellence in teaching. Some of the most recent honors earned by our faculty include:

Bloebaum, C.L.

• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996
  
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Faculty Fellowship Award, 1995

Chopra, H.D.

• National Science Foundation Creativity Award, 2001

Chung, D.D.L.

• American Carbon Society Charles E. Pettinos Award, 2004
  
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2003
  
• Outstanding Inventors, SUNY, 2002
  
• Society of Automotive Engineers Teetor Educational Award, 1987
  
• American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers Hardy Gold Medal, 1980
• Fellow of the Carbon Society
• Fellow of ASM International
  

Crassidis, J.L.

• Society of Automotive Engineers Teetor Educational Award, 2006
  
• UB "Exceptional Scholar" Young Investigator Awards, 2002
  

DesJardin, P.E.

• SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2004
  
• Honorary Member, Pi Tau Sigma, the National Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, 2003
• Sandia National Laboratories Award for Excellence (2001,2002)
  

Felske, J.D.

• Outstanding Inventors, SUNY, 2005
  
• SUNY Research Foundation Research and Scholarship Award, 2002
  

Forliti, D.J.

• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2006
  

Hua, S.Z.

• NIH Quantitative Research Development Award
  

Kesavadas, T.

• Outstanding Inventors, SUNY, 2004
• SUNY Research Foundation Research and Scholarship Award, 2002
  

Krovi, V.

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2004
  

Lewis, K.E.

• Outstanding Inventors, SUNY, 2005
  
• Society of Automotive Engineers Teetor Educational Award, 2004
  
• SUNY Research Foundation Research and Scholarship Award, 2002
  
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
  
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1999
  
• UB Chair for Competitive Product and Process Design
  

Madnia, C.K.

• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002
  
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1996
  

Mayne, R.W.

• Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
• SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2001
  
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000
  

Meng, H.

• NIH Quantitative Research Development Award
  
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1996
  

Mollendorf, J.C.

• SUNY Research Foundation Research and Scholarship Award, 2002
  
• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1985
  

Mook, J.D.

• Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004
  
• Society of Automotive Engineers Teetor Educational Award, 1989
  

Patra, A.K.

• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1998
  

Singh, T.

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Fellowship, 2000
• Society of Automotive Engineers Teetor Educational Award, 1998
  

Soom, A.

• Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)
  

Wetherhold, R.C.

• J. William Fulbright Fellow, University of Kaiserslautern (Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe), Fall 1997-Spring 1998
  
• Ralph R. Teetor Engineering Educator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1992