The following winners were announced during the presentation of awards that followed Mr. Polston’s keynote address:

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Frank Woeste Award: Kaitlyn Braun

Outstanding BAE Junior: Matt Fogle

Outstanding BAE Senior: Zeb Vance

Outstanding BAE Teacher: Czarena Crofcheck

Chemical Engineering

AIChE Outstanding Senior Member: Nick Winquist

AIChE Outstanding Junior Member: Lindsay Gray

Omega Chi Epsilon Outstanding Senior Member: David Spencer

Outstanding Junior: Brianna Smith

Outstanding Senior: David Spencer

Outstanding Teacher: Doug Kalika

Civil Engineering

Outstanding Junior: Admin Husic

Outstanding Senior: Allie Perkins

Outstanding University Scholar: Davis Huston

Outstanding Graduate Student: Gabe Dadi

Outstanding Faculty: Brad Davis

College of Engineering Awards

Lou Takacs Engineering Cooperative Education Award: Paul Varnado

College of Engineering Alumni Association Awards

Engineering Alumni Association Leadership Scholarship: Alex Wade

Engineering Alumni Association Senior Leadership Award: Kathryn Gardner

Computer Science

Outstanding Academic Performance: Bradley Elliot/Alex Williams

ACM Outstanding Teacher: Judy Goldsmith

ACM Outstanding Teaching Assistant: R. Paul Mihail/Ismail Abumuhfouz

Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship: Ting Gu

Graduate Center for Biomedical Engineering

Outstanding Teacher: David Puleo

Outstanding Graduate Student: Ran Cheng

Electrical and Computer Engineering

H. Alex Romanowitz Memorial Award: Chris Garnick

Outstanding ECE Senior: Matt Davis

Outstanding ECE Teacher: Stephen Gedney

Robert L. Cosgriff Award: Jason Rexroat

Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding ECE Junior: Charlie Miles

Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding ECE Graduate Student Award: Sean Hamlet

Materials Engineering

ASM International Bluegrass Chapter Scholarships: Wilson Rice, Amber Gay

Outstanding Junior: Cory Parker

Outstanding Senior: William Martin

Outstanding Teacher: Fuqian Yang

Mechanical Engineering

ASME Bluegrass Section Outstanding Scholar: Robert Burgess

Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Sophomore: Andrew Casciato

Outstanding Junior: Andrew Wilder

Outstanding Senior: Tyler Flynn

Outstanding Graduate Student: Xin Hua

ASME Outstanding Faculty Award: Jesse Hoagg

Outstanding Teaching Award – Lecturer Series: Christine Goble

Mining Engineering

Outstanding Junior: Austin Brock

Outstanding Senior: David Norton

Outstanding Teacher: G.T. Lineberry

Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education: Judy Goldsmith

Tau Beta Pi Awards

Most Outstanding Senior: Adrianne Shearer

Most Outstanding Graduate Student: Stacy Schal

Most Outstanding Staff: Robyn Morefield

Most Outstanding Professor: Jimmy Fox

Outstanding Teacher in Paducah: Jeff Seay

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In over 20 years at the University of Kentucky, Goldsmith has developed a well-earned reputation for excellence in teaching. In 2013 alone, she has received a Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in the tenured faculty category, the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Computer Science and, now, the UK College of Engineering Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.

Goldsmith inspires students and often engages them in research projects. Many students have taken her courses and subsequently joined her research group. Several have pursued a Ph.D. with her as their advisor. Of particular interest to Goldsmith is that students improve their communication skills. To help students gain confidence and grow as effective public speakers, she runs a weekly research seminar where she works with students on their lecturing style and slide presentation.

Always innovating in the classroom, Goldsmith often allows students to choose from a variety of options for class projects, including demos, movie or book reviews and discussions of games. Recently, Goldsmith offered a class titled “Ethics in Science Fiction,” which quickly filled to capacity.

Goldsmith’s hard work and dedication to excellence as a mentor earned her the 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science Mentoring Award. She takes her role as a mentor seriously, often making extra time for students who are members of underrepresented groups in computer science. In addition, she actively promotes the careers and work of her former students and colleagues.

Congratulations to Judy Goldsmith on her award and 20 years of dedication to the craft and profession of teaching!

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Computer science professor Judy Goldsmith is the 2013 winner of the Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. The award, which recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching accomplishments, is annually given to its recipient at the annual Tau Beta Pi Awards Banquet.

In over 20 years at the University of Kentucky, Goldsmith has developed a well-earned reputation for excellence in teaching. In 2013 alone, she has received a Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in the tenured faculty category, the Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Computer Science and, now, the UK College of Engineering Henry Mason Lutes Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.

Goldsmith inspires students and often engages them in research projects. Many students have taken her courses and subsequently joined her research group. Several have pursued a Ph.D. with her as their advisor. Of particular interest to Goldsmith is that students improve their communication skills. To help students gain confidence and grow as effective public speakers, she runs a weekly research seminar where she works with students on their lecturing style and slide presentation.

Always innovating in the classroom, Goldsmith often allows students to choose from a variety of options for class projects, including demos, movie or book reviews and discussions of games. Recently, Goldsmith offered a class titled “Ethics in Science Fiction,” which quickly filled to capacity.

Goldsmith’s hard work and dedication to excellence as a mentor earned her the 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science Mentoring Award. She takes her role as a mentor seriously, often making extra time for students who are members of underrepresented groups in computer science. In addition, she actively promotes the careers and work of her former students and colleagues.

Congratulations to Judy Goldsmith on her award and 20 years of dedication to the craft and profession of teaching!

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Goldsmith has contributed to the burgeoning area of research known as “comparative decision making” by focusing on computational decision making, which she describes as, “computers making decisions and computers helping people make decisions.” In addition to her theoretical work involving algorithms and computational complexity pertaining to elections and tournaments, Goldsmith is interested in using models for planning under uncertainty to develop decision support systems and decision aids. Currently, she is working on a decision aid for rheumatoid arthritis patients.

In 2012, Ashley received the Henry Mason Lutes Award, which recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching accomplishments in the College of Engineering. Additionally, Ashley has won the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Outstanding Teacher Award as determined by the student body of the department every year since 2007.

“Dr. Ashley is an outstanding instructor,” said ECE department chair Larry Holloway. “He is demanding, but fair. He conveys energy and enthusiasm to his students and his students feel he really cares about their learning and their success.”

Mihail is currently teaching a course he originally proposed on graphics programming for computer games. He is a Ph.D. student of Goldsmith’s.

The Provost’s Award winners will be recognized at the Provost’s Awards Day ceremony, Thursday, April 25 at 1:00 p.m. in the Lexmark Public Room in the Main Building.

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“I was actually determined to get away and see more of the country,” he laughs. “I didn’t even take a tour of the campus.”

Yet there were compelling reasons for Josiah to consider enrolling at UK. First, because of his academic record, he qualified to receive a scholarship that would fully fund his education. For many students, such a financial incentive would all but seal the deal, but Josiah continued to apply due diligence to his university search.

“Money isn’t everything. I figured that I could always make money and pay off debt if another school’s offer made it necessary to take out student loans. But with my whole life ahead of me, I wanted to make sure UK could offer the specific opportunities I was looking for outside of the education itself,” he explains.

What kinds of opportunities and intangibles did Josiah look for when scrutinizing the UK College of Engineering and its Department of Computer Science?

“There were several areas,” Josiah recalls. “First, I wanted to know that UK’s undergraduates were able to get involved in research and extend their learning beyond the classroom through independent work. Second, I wanted to know about UK’s study abroad options and the resources available for such trips. I also had questions about the kinds of jobs UK’s computer science graduates get as well as where they go for graduate school.”

Josiah met with department chair Kenneth Calvert to address each issue. In the end, Josiah saw enough potential to pursue his undergraduate education at UK. Now a junior, how does Josiah evaluate his experience thus far?

“UK has exceeded my expectations by far,” he says. “I got everything I was looking for as well as opportunities I had never even considered. It was the right decision to come here.”

Concerning research, Josiah has had the chance to work with computer science professor Judy Goldsmith on her artificial intelligence research, particularly in the area of planning and decision making under conditions of uncertainty. His research productivity enabled him to pursue another piece of important criteria from his university search: studying abroad.

“This past summer I went to Paris to continue my research with some of the leading researchers in the artificial intelligence field. It was my first time out of the country and one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. Being able to do research, without worrying about classes, in Paris was unbelievable,” he says.

In recognition of Josiah’s academic excellence and passion for research, the Department of Computer Science made him the inaugural recipient of the Duncan E. Clarke Memorial Innovation Award. The award was established as a tribute to former computer science professor Duncan Clarke’s educational and career achievements, his passion for research and his lifelong pursuit of innovation and excellence.

“I am very honored to receive this award because I know the quality of the students in the computer science department and all are equally as deserving,” he says. “It means a lot for a faculty member to think highly enough of you to nominate you for such an award.”

When he graduates, Josiah plans to attend graduate school and earn a Ph.D. He is also thinking about entrepreneurial ventures that will require problem solving on a computer science and business level. For now, however, he is enjoying classes, research and involvement in Triangle Fraternity, which is open to engineers, architects and scientists, and the Society for the Promotion of Undergraduate Research (SPUR).

“A lot of incoming freshman I talk to aren’t interested in research, but what a student learns by working independently and with a team can really them understand whether or not they are in the right field,” he suggests. “So I am doing what I can to help the number of undergraduates doing research grow.”

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