Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
At the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, graduate students are celebrated across teaching, research and leadership. From the “Outstanding Teaching Assistant in MEAM” acknowledging exemplary instructional service, to the historic “John A. Goff Award” recognizing scholarship, resourcefulness and leadership, to awards for master’s-level research promise and external fellowships.
This award is given to the Mechanical Engineering graduate student whose teaching assistant service has been exemplary. Students are chosen to receive this award because of their initiative, reliability, commitment to the students, and their overall contribution to the teaching mission.
Spring 2025: Gulzhan Aldan Fall 2024: Gabriel Unger Spring 2024: Luc Capaldi Fall 2023: Vivek Sharma Fall 2022: Julia Radzio & Weilun Qiu Spring 2022: Torrie Edwards Fall 2021: Shane Rosen-Levy and Jake Welde Spring 2021: Georgios Kissas Fall 2020: David Levine Spring 2020: Yibo Yang Fall 2019: Chuanpeng Sun Spring 2019: Huiwen Bai Fall 2018: Juan Diego Caporale Fall 2017: Eric Young Fall 2016: Joseph Cooke Spring 2016: Joan John Cortes Fall 2015: Zachary Milne Spring 2015: Sarah Tang Fall 2014: Helen Minsky, Monroe Kennedy and Paul Barclay Spring 2014: Ruiyuan Ma and Gavin Kenneally Fall 2013: Luis Guerrero Bonilla Spring 2013: Justin Thomas Fall 2012: Rebecca Pierce Spring 2012: Mehdi Bakhshi Zanjani Fall 2011: Nicholas Schneider Spring 2011: Michael Norton and Lichao Pan Fall 2010: Drew Cheney Fall 2009: Graham E. Wabiszewski and Qiwei Shi Spring 2009: Ian Cosden Fall 2008: Joseph Romano Spring 2008: Francis Lagor Fall 2007: Paul White and Neil Zuckerman Spring 2007: Nathan Michael Fall 2006: Jack Franklin and Jason Thompson Spring 2006: Joseph Grogan Fall 2005: Richard Springman Spring 2005: Hui Zhao Fall 2004: Shizhi Qian Spring 2004: Ani Hsieh Fall 2003: Andy Perrin Spring 2003: Heather Lynch Fall 2002: Alan Rosenwinkel
The John A. Goff Prize for graduate students was established in 1974 by alumni and friends in honor of Dr. John A. Goff, former Dean of the Towne School and Asa Whitney Professor. It is awarded annually to a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics who has been selected by the faculty on the basis of criteria of scholarship, resourcefulness, and leadership. Recipients:
2025: Victoria Edwards & Elizabeth Bianchini 2024: Sage Fulco & Jake Welde 2023: Konstantinos Garyfallogiannis 2022: Shenglin Huang 2021: Kevin Larry Galloway & Chengyang Mo 2020: Mathew Halm 2019: Lisa M. Lallo 2018: Sarah Y. Tang 2017: Tarik D. Tosun 2016: Naomi Fitter & Alison Koser 2015: David Gagnon 2014: Nicholas Schneider 2013: Matt Turpin 2012: David Argudo 2011: Nora Ayanian 2010: Joseph Grogan 2009: Neil Zuckerman 2008: Richard Springman 2007: Mong-Ying (Ani) Hsieh 2006: Adam Engler 2005: Joshua Lampe 2004: Carl Jannetti 2003: Sung Key Koh 2002: Karthik Mukundakrishnan
This scholarship is given to first year MEAM master’s students who show exceptional promise for research. It has been instituted to foster a spirit for creative thinking among master’s students beyond what they learn in courses.
2020: Xinyue Wei 2020: Zhiyuan Yang 2019: Max Cioban 2019: Luke Kasper 2019: Rohan Sanghvi 2018: Jundong Hu 2018: Ranjiangshang Ran 2018: Matthew Sorna 2018: Zihang Zhang 2018: Qinyi Zhu 2017: Yulai Weng 2017: Akshay Panduronga Sinai Ramani 2016: Mohsen Azadi 2016: Hung Tang Ko 2016: Nupura Ravishankar 2016: Mutian Zhang 2015: Xiaozhuo Cheng 2015: Aoyi Luo 2015: Madhura Gurjar 2014: Akshay Ananthakrishnan 2014: Siyao Hu 2014: Chengzhi Qi
2024: Benjamin Shaffer, NSF Fellowship 2024: Daelan Roosa, NSF Fellowship 2022: Sindu Shanmugadas, NSF Fellowship 2021: Victoria Edwards, NDSEG Fellowship 2021: Shinya Kondo, NSF Fellowship 2021: Julia Radzio, NSF Fellowship 2021: Kyle Skelil, GEM Fellowship 2021: Olaoluwaotan (Francis) Sowande, GEM Fellowship 2021: Erica Waters, NSF Fellowship 2020: Brian Acosta, NSF Fellowship2020: Elizabeth (Bibit) Bianchini, NSF*, Ford Foundation*, and NDSEG Fellowships2020: Jessica Yin, NSF Fellowship2020: Michael Sobrepera, NIH F31 Fellowship2020: Konstantinos Garyfallogiannis, Gerondelis Foundation Fellowship2020: Thomas Celenza, NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellowship2020: Parker LaMascus, NSF* and NDSEG Fellowships 2020: Sage Fulco, NDSEG Fellowship 2019: Laura Jarin-Lipschitz, NSF Fellowship 2019: Daniel Mox, NSF Fellowship 2019: Matthew Halm, NSF Fellowship 2019: Chris Stabile, NSF Fellowship 2019: Alissa Johnson, NSF Fellowship 2019: Jake Welde, NSF Fellowship 2018: Jessica Weakly, NSF Fellowship 2015: Lisa Mariani, NSF Fellowship 2015: Eric Young, NSF Fellowship 2014: Rebecca Winter, NSF Fellowship 2014: Tarik Tosun, NSF Fellowship 2013: Sarah Yifang Tang, NSF Fellowship 2013: Mickey Whitzer, NSF Fellowship 2013: Monroe Kennedy, NSF Fellowship 2013: David Gagnon, NSF Fellowship 2013: Naomi Fitter, NSF Fellowship 2013: Elizabeth Beattie, NSF Fellowship 2012: Gavin Kenneally: NSERC Scholarship 2012: Monroe Kennedy III: GEM Fellowship 2012: Alison Koser: NSF Fellowship 2012: Shylean Keshwani: Agakhan Foundation International Scholarship 2011: Heather Culbertson: NSF Fellowship 2011: Phillip Dames: DOD NDSEG Fellowship 2011: Rebecca Pierce: NSF Fellowship 2009: Matthew Turpin: NSF Fellowship
*Award was declined because the student won multiple fellowships.
2022: Shenglin Huang, USNC/TAM Thomas J.R. Hughes Fellowship 2022: Dr. Zijian Yang, Stanford Medicine Sanjiv Sam Gambhir-Philips Fellowship 2018: Dr. Alison Koser Patteson, Dissertation Award in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Recipient, American Physical Society 2017: Dr. Ting Yue, Best Paper Award, ECOS 2017 International Conference, San Diego
