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Annual Awards

Integrative Systems + Design honors deserving ISD students, faculty, staff, and alumni through four annual awards:

Purpose: Honors senior faculty who have consistently demonstrated outstanding achievements in the areas of scholarly research and/or creative endeavors, teaching and mentoring of students and junior faculty, service and related activities that have brought distinction to themselves and to U-M.
Eligibility: Instructional or research faculty with appointment in the nominating department and who have not previously received the award
Criteria: High impact accomplishment in some meritorious area benefiting the department and college
Award: One award of $2,000

2023-24: Dr. Diann Brei, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
2022-23 Art Hyde, Program Director, Automotive Engineering and Associate Director of Engineering Practice
2021-22 Dr. Chi Okwudire, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
2020-21 Amy Hortop, LEO Lecture IV, ISD
2019-20 Dr. Robert Bordley, ISD Clinical Professor, Professor on Engineering
Practice, Program Director, Systems Engineering + Design
2018-19 Dr. Panos Paplambros, James B. Angell Distinguished University
Professor of Engineering, Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
2017-18 Dr. Suljo Linic, Program Director, Energy Systems Engineering, and
Professor of Chemical
2016-17 Dr. Donald Malen, Lecturer
2015-16 Dr. A. Harvey Bell, Professor of Practice
2014-15 Dr. Patrick Hammet, Lecturer III
2013-14 Dr. Donald Winter, Professor of Practice

Purpose: To reward staff for exemplary dedication, overall performance, and special achievements
Eligibility: Current regular ISD staff members with at least one year of service with ISD who have not been a recipient of this award in the past four years
Who Can Nominate: Any current ISD faculty, instructor, staff member, or student
Nomination Categories: Customer Service, DEI, Teamwork, Performance and Quality, Initiative and Innovation, Leadership, and Professionalism
Process: ISD Chair and Unit Administrator decide to allow directors to be nominated
Award: One award of $1,000

2023: Eric Anderson and Nick Looney
2022 Shonda Adams, Admissions and Academic Programs Coordinator
2021 Award Canceled
2020 Michelle Hornbacker, HR Generalist
2019 Rachael Hamilton, Senior Administrative Assistant
2018 Thomas Lemoine, Frontline Marketing and Communications
Coordinator
2017 Kirk Lawrence, Senior Television Engineer; and Gina Lipor, Marketing Communications Specialist

Purpose: This annual award is presented to an ISD student or team of students who promote and embody the spirit and ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
Eligibility: Nominees must be ISD students at the time when they made the contributions to DEI and the focus of their effort may be either within or beyond the university
Attributes:
- Commitment to DEI by participating in events, projects, efforts, or organizations that promote or celebrate mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation, or tolerance, and contribute to awareness of DEI in the ISD community, and assists in the fostering of these values through speaking, writing, and living by example
- Passion to offer their talents, efforts and creativity to continuing a climate of welcome and change, and to create new dialogue and conversations that lead to understanding among people of diverse cultural backgrounds and the creation of a climate of care, acceptance, and welcome
- That societal change is possible through persistent hard work and they realize that one person can make a lasting difference
Who May Nominate: Program Directors, Graduate Coordinators, faculty, staff, Alumni Leadership Board Members, students, self
Requirements: CV and one page statement addressing what nominee has done to address criteria

2023: Nick Moses, Design Science
2022 Grace Burleson, Design Science
2021 Bonnie Jiang, Design Science
2020 John Meluso, Design Science
2019 Matthew Nelson, Design Science
2018 Beth Ann Less, Manufacturing
2017 Aastik Chawla, GAME; Anand Ram, Global Automotive Manufacturing Engineering; and Brittany Ann Szczepanik, Energy Systems Engineering

Purpose: This annual award is presented to the capstone design project that demonstrates outstanding impact, excellent contributions to practice, exemplary deployment of classroom material in an industrial application, excellent quality of the project work, and great potential value-added benefits for the sponsor award
Eligibility: All ISD Master of Engineering and Master of Science students completing their ISD Capstone Project/Practicum
Who May Nominate: Program Directors, Graduate Coordinators, 503 faculty, industry sponsors, students who completed their 503 project (self nomination)
Requirements: CV and one page statement addressing what nominee has done to address criteria
Award: $500 per team member not to exceed a total of $2,000

2023: Meredith Jonik, ESE; Justin Nowosielski, ESE; Alexander Montgomery, ESE; and Lucy Rosensteel, GAME
2022 Jacob Doyle, Energy Systems Engineering; and Rony Joseph, Energy
Systems Engineering
2021 Hanadi Dora, Systems Engineering + Design, and Xhulja Biraku,
Manufacturing
2020 Jiacheng Liu, Manufacturing
2019 Keith Cardillo, Manufacturing
2018 Agarsha Murari Muthekannapiran, Global Automotive Manufacturing
Engineering; Sanket Choudhart, Manufacturing; Dieon Roger, Dual Systems Engineering + Design and Global Automotive Manufacturing Engineering; and Ajit Shetty, Global Automotive Manufacturing Engineering
2017 Kevin McDonald, Global Automotive Manufacturing Engineering