Mizzou Engineering honors outstanding faculty, staff, students and alumni

Mizzou Engineering recognized outstanding faculty, staff, students and alumni for their accomplishments and contributions as part of its 2025 awards banquet.

Honors College adds Reginald Rogers to its Teaching Fellows cohort

Mizzou Engineer Reginald Rogers Jr. is one of 10 new Teaching Fellows at the Mizzou Honors College. The Teaching Fellows form a collaborative cohort that work with Honors faculty and administrators to develop and teach the “Honors Book Club” course.

Mizzou Engineer honored as ASME Rising Star

Hessam Yazdani, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri, has been recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) with a certificate acknowledging his distinguished achievements in engineering mechanics.

Mizzou Engineer receives AIChE Community Distinguished Service Award

Mizzou Engineering faculty member Reginald Rogers Jr. has been awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Minority Affairs Community's Distinguished Service Award.

Mizzou Engineering faculty honored as Curators’ Distinguished Professors

Two Mizzou Engineering faculty members, Prasad Calyam and Baolin Deng, have been named Curators' Distinguished Professors.

Mizzou Engineering professor receives DARPA Young Faculty Award for autonomous systems research

Assistant Professor Mushuang Liu received Mizzou’s first Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) for her research into multi-agent reinforcement learning. 

Rao receives ICDE Outstanding Reviewer Award

Praveen Rao Mizzou Engineering’s Praveen Rao has received a 2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the 40th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE).

Jianlin “Jack” Cheng named 2023 AAAS Fellow

Jianlin “Jack” Cheng, a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering and a NextGen Precision Health initiative researcher, was named a 2023 AAAS Fellow.

Krishnaswamy earns CAREER Award for taking on the challenge of hidden hunger

More than 2 billion people suffer from hidden hunger, a form of malnutrition where individuals lack essential micronutrients — like vitamins and minerals — even though they consume what appears to be an adequate amount of calories. University of Missouri researcher Kiruba Krishnaswamy is focused on tackling this global challenge. She recently received a five-year, $532,000 Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) — the NSF’s most prestigious award for early-career faculty — in support of her project titled “FEAST (food ecosystems and circularity for sustainable transformation) framework to address hidden hunger.”

Faculty, staff, students, alumni recognized with Engineering Awards

Mizzou Engineering on Friday recognized outstanding faculty, staff and students for their dedication and service as part of the College’s annual awards banquet.