Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award

Established in 1966, the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award is the highest honor bestowed by the College of Engineering and recognizes graduates who have reached exceptional levels of professional achievement. Nuclear engineering alumni who have received the award are listed below.

Information about eligibility, nomination, and selection for the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award is available on the College of Engineering’s website.

2010-2019

2019: Jack Brenizer (’81 PhD NucE)
2018: Kenneth Lindquist (’67 MS NucE; ’71 PhD NucE)
2017: Andrew Bieniawski (’89 BS NucE)
2016: Donald Moul (’87 BS NucE)
2015: Stephen J. Trautman (’86 BS NucE)
2014: John Wagner (’94 MS NucE; ’97 PhD NucE)
2013: James Tusar (’84 BS NucE)
2012: George Imel (’73 MS NucE; ’77 PhD NucE)
2011: Jerome Gormley (’87 BS NucE)
2010: Jim Bolon (’76 BS NucE; ’85 MEng NucE)

2000-2009

2009: Eileen Supko (’85 BS NucE)
2008: Richard R. Etling (’78 BS NucE)
2007: Richard B. Gill (’79 MS NucE)
2006: Andrew C. Klein (’77 BS NucE)
2005: Douglas C. Wood (’73 BS NucE)
2004: Daniel S. Williams (’88 MS NucE)
2003: William F. Naughton (’68 MS NucE; ’72 PhD NucE)
2002: Joseph R. Gray (’69 BS NucE)
2001: Patricia Beecher Loftus (’75 BS NucE)
2000: Suzanne V. Kennan (’86 BS NucE)

1990-1999

1999: Jeffrey D. E. Jeffries (’70 MS NucE; ’72 PhD NucE)
1998: John J. Brennan (’65 MS NucE)
1997: Larry M. Girvin (’65 BS NucE; ’71 MS NucE)
1996: Leonard A. Pasquini (’66 BS EMch; ’74 PhD NucE)
1995: A. Edward Scherer (’65 MS NucE)
1991: C. Frederick Sears (’69 BS NucE)

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