May 6, 2025
By Chloe Arrington

The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering has honored 18 graduate students with academic and service excellence awards. The awards recognized their exceptional research, teaching, and service contributions throughout the 2024-2025 academic year.

This is the second year these distinctions have been awarded, and this year's expanded to include a master's level research category. The awards were presented to the recipients during Grad Student Appreciation Week.

Award winners include:

Graduate Instructor Award

• Jordan Kocher

Best Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

• Jungmin Ha
• Nicholas Isaf
• Wenjing Li

Excellence in Service and Leadership Award

• Mingeun Choi
• Emmeline Evans
• Lena Moller

Ph.D. Research Excellence Award

• Milad Azizkhani
• Sara Bitarafan
• Jiehao Chen
• Zhaoyuan Gu
• Dongjing He
• Zihao Lin
• Zhi Ling
• Emmanuel Mate-Kole
• Asif Rashid
• Tianyu Wang

M.S. Research Excellence Award

• Youngjin Kwon