Awards & Honors

  • K-State's American Society of Automotive Engineering aero design team, with their entry "The Purple Diablo," placed second—and first among U.S. teams—at the 2008 Aero Design West international competition.

  • The College of Engineering master’s degree distance education program has earned a Best Buy ranking from the national editorial review team, GetEducated.com, LLC.

  • In the past six years, more than 12 students have been recognized nationally as outstanding students of their disciplines.

  • The K-State College of Engineering is home to the Institute for Environmental Research, the first of its kind in the world to be located on a college campus.

  • K-State's Civil Infrastructures Systems Laboratory houses one of six accelerated testing facilities in the nation, capable of testing large-scale pavement, structural, and bridge elements.

  • The College of Engineering has the second largest architectural engineering program in the nation and has been selected by the journal, Consulting & Specifying Engineer, as the preferred source for entry-consulting engineers.

  • K-State’s student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers has been recognized by the institute with Outstanding Student Chapter Awards 1994-2007, the longest winning streak of a student chapter since the 1950s.

  • The K-State National Gas Machinery Laboratory is the natural gas industry's leading independent turbocharger research and development test facility.

  • The Advanced Manufacturing Institute at Kansas State received one of only five major grants given by the Society of Manufacturing Engineer's Education Foundation to advance innovative manufacturing engineering education and training at its Manufacturing Learning Center.

  • The K-State Student Chapter of Associated General Contractors has won more first, second, and third place national awards for Outstanding Student Chapter than any other of the 150 chapters in the country.

  • AMI has been named a Fabricators and Manufacturers Association Education Center-one of only nine in the world.

  • The Powercat Tractors Design Team took first place in the 2008 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition. K-State has placed in the top three, including seven firsts, continuously since 1999.

  • Lisa Kitten, ME senior, has been awarded a 2007 Marshall Scholarship.

  • Elizabeth Voigt, ME, was named a 2008 Fulbright Scholar.

  • Tricia Culbertson, BioAg, awarded an EPA Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship, providing up to $37,000 annually for graduate study in an environmentally related field.

  • Nineteen students in the K-State College of Engineering were initiated into the prestigious Phi Kappa Phi national academic honor society in 2007-08.

  • The CIS student mobile robotics team took first place in the scavenger hunt competition at the 2006 national meeting of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

  • Jeremy Dreiling, ARE, named one of 35 Tau Beta Pi Fellows in the nation for 2006-07.

  • Lisa Beck, ARE; Jon Oakes, ME; Austin Pfannenstiel, EE; Jay Reimer, BAE; and Derek Woodman, CMPEN, were awarded 2007-08 national Tau Beta Pi Scholarships.

  • Recent approval of a power upgrade will make K-State’s nuclear reactor in the department of mechanical and nuclear engineering, the fifth highest-powered university reactor in the country. The department now operates the only university research nuclear reactor in an 11-state contiguous region of the Plains states.

  • The department of civil engineering has received federal funding to establish a National Research Center for Rural Transportation Infrastructure and Safety.

  • The department of civil engineering has established the nation's first formal interdisciplinary certificate program on geoenvironmental sciences and engineering.

  • Six engineering students have been awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships since 1999, the most recent, Emily Voigt, ChE, 2007.

  • Six engineering students have been awarded Morris K. Udall Scholarships since 2000, the most recent, Nicholas Long, ARE, 2008.

  • The K-State American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter has received national Certificates of Commendation 11 times since 1990. These certificates are awarded to student chapters ranked in the top 10 percent nationwide.

  • Since 1995, 15 College of Engineering faculty members have received the prestigious four-year Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.

  • Kevin Lease, assoc. professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering, selected as one of nine outstanding engineering educators by the Society of Automotive Engineers.

  • Zachary Maier, CompEngr, 2006-07, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Scholars and Fellows Program.
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