The Triangle

Issue date: 2/20/09 Section: News

Media Credit: Kara Khan

The Honors Day Ceremony and Reception for Engineers Week was held Feb. 18 in the Main Auditorium.

The awards ceremony was held to honor those individuals, both students and faculty, involved with the college of engineering who made notable achievements for the school.

Awards were presented to students and faculty in areas such as research in chemical and biological engineering.

According to Ellen Pons, assistant to the director of the College of Engineering, the undergraduate and graduate research awards are selected by departments and awarded to one graduate and one undergraduate student who the departments feel is doing excellent research.

For the chemical and biological engineering department, the graduate award went to Daniel Hallinan and the undergraduate award went to Brian Merritt.

In the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department, the graduate award went to Jade Mitchell Blackwood and the undergraduate award went to Thitho Hoang Horowitz.

For the computer science department, the graduate recipient was Sunny Wong and the undergraduate recipient was Timothy Chagnon.

For the electrical and computer engineering department, the graduate award was given to John Kountouriotis and the undergraduate award was given to Jeffrey Wildman.

For the materials science and engineering department, the graduate award went to John Chmiola and the undergraduate award went to Keith Fahnestock.

In the mechanical engineering and mechanics department, the graduate recipient was Eda Yildirim and the undergraduate recipient was William Hesse.

The awards are made possible by contributions from donors, who, according to Pons, include alumni and friends of Drexel.

"Many of the awards are for academic achievement, like students who have a high GPA," Pons said. "Some awards are for what the donor wishes, there are some where students have to write an essay to get an award, though there aren't many of those."

Each award is presented for a different achievement by a student or faculty member.

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