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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Complete list of Tau Beta Pi Award winners

The annual award was established to recognize and reward outstanding teaching accomplishments.  Recipients of the award are expected not only to be outstanding teachers, but individuals who are or, can become, role models for other faculty.  Recipients must also have exhibited excellent teaching over a sustained period of time, have exhibited imagination and exceptional dedication to student needs and demonstrated the ability to challenge and inspire students.

An instructor at UK for 24 years, Dr. Anderson believes that “an outstanding teacher goes beyond the classroom setting and provides positive mentoring in many different ways.  In my years of teaching at UK, I have not only taught graduate and undergraduate courses, but have also engaged students in learning by providing opportunities for them to participate in independent research activities.  My overall goal as an instructor is to engage each and every student in active learning and to instill the confidence that they need to function as independent engineers and scientists.”

In letters of support, former undergraduate student Kevin Baldridge wrote “She is clear about what she expects and provides the instruction necessary to understand the importance of assignments.  In addition, the assignments she gives are imaginative in their real world applicability.” Another former student, Jenna Shapiro wrote “As a senior in chemical engineering, I have had the privilege of having Dr Anderson as a teacher for three of my undergraduate courses.  Additionally, she has served as my research advisor since I began research during my senior year of high school.  Because of my initial research experiences in Dr. Anderson’s lab, I became a chemical engineering major.   I credit much of my success in my undergraduate career to her guidance and dedication, both as a teacher and advisor.”

A highly decorated professional, Dr. Anderson was awarded the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991, the Excellence Award in Undergraduate Education from the University of Kentucky in 1991, the National Institutes of Health Shannon Award in 1992, the Gill Eminent Professorship at UK in 2002, the Sarah Bennett Holmes Award for promoting women students in the UK College of Engineering, the UK Research Professorship Award in 2010 and was named the Outstanding Teacher in chemical engineering in 2011.

Dr. Anderson claims numerous professional society memberships including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Society of Biological Engineering, the Society of Women Engineers, the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network and American Society for Engineering Education.  She is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, the Omega Chi Epsilon Chemical Engineering Honor Society, the Sigma XI Scientific Research Society and the Omicron Delta Kappa Society.

Her areas of research specialization include rheological properties of cell membranes including adhesion and deformation properties, biofunctional membranes and enzyme immobilization, biocompatible surfaces, nanocomposite hydrogels, bioluminescence, cell-based biosensors, biofouling of surfaces and cancer detection and treatment.

Dr. Anderson received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Youngstown State University.  She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering/biomedical engineering, as well as a Postdoctorate Fellow in bioengineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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