College of Engineering
Eighteen engineering faculty honored in Wings Up 100 awards for strides in research funding
For the fourth consecutive year, Tennessee Tech honored the top faculty who brought in $100,000 or more in external funding for student research in the previous academic year during its Wings Up 100 awards. Of the 36 faculty across campus who had secured a total of $17.9 million, half were from the College of Engineering.
The list of engineering honorees includes:
- Rory Roberts, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Susmit Shannigrahi, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
- Michael Rogers, Associate Professor, Computer Science
- Ethan Languri, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Director, Industrial Assessment Center
- Satish Mahajan, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Director, Center for Energy Systems Research
- Mohamed Mahmoud, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Pingen Chen, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Sheikh Ghafoor, Professor, Computer Science
- Duckbong Kim, Associate Professor, Manufacturing & Engineering Technology
- Ahmad Vaselbehagh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Ismail Fidan, Professor, Manufacturing & Engineering Technology
- Ali Alouani, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Chris Wilson, Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Chair, General & Basic Engineering
- Joseph Biernacki, Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Maanak Gupta, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
- Craig Henderson, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Harry Ingle, Director of Diversity, Recruitment & Student Success; Clay N. Hixson Student Success Center
- Muhammad Ismail, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
