APEX AWARDS
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
National Research Council Canada
SUZANNE JENNICHES UPWARD MOBILITY AWARD
ENDOWED BY NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION
HP Inc.
DISTINGUISHED ENGINEERING EDUCATOR AWARD
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
SWE Members at Large Section
ENTREPRENEUR AWARD
Emrgy Inc.
RESNIK CHALLENGER
MEDAL AWARD
Lockheed Martin
ADVOCATING WOMEN IN ENGINEERING AWARD
The Boeing Company
Trinity Consultants
Solar Turbines
Lockheed Martin
John Deere
SPARK AWARD
Lockheed Martin
Honeywell
IBM
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Cummins Inc.
RODNEY D. CHIPP
MEMORIAL AWARD
University of Southern California
Dow
John Deere India Pvt Ltd.
BEACON AWARD
Maria Teresa Cordero Homad
Bechtel Chile Ltda.
Virginia Counts, P.E., Ph.D.
SWE Phoenix Section
Christina Eggert, Sc.D.
Sikorsky Aircraft, a Lockheed
Martin Company
Marilyn Gaska, Ph.D.
Lockheed Martin
Katarzyna Hogendorf
Jacobs
Bindu Krishnan, Ph.D.
Dow
Tina Lin, Ph.D.
HP Inc.
Jd Marhevko
ZF Group
Tamaira Ross, F.SWE
SWE Pacific Northwest Section
PRISM AWARD
Ekaterina Badaeva, Ph.D.
The Boeing Company
Christina Bishop Jackson, Ph.D.
Honeywell
Carolina Franzo
John Deere
Kalyn Froeschle
Dow
Jeri Anne Moore
Lockheed Martin
Pamela Morison, P.E.
HP Inc.
Dorina Sava Gallis, Ph.D.
Sandia National Laboratories
Catherine Stone
Stryker
PATHFINDER AWARD
Aileen Allen
HP Inc.
Ann Beaubien
Keysight Technologies
Savannah Bell
Medtronic
Robyn Broniewski
SWE Dallas Section
Dani Couger
Lockheed Martin
Neethu Elizabeth Simon
SWE Phoenix Section
Hiba Fareed
Collins Aerospace, an RTX Business
Amanda Haapala, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Lindsey Henry
Cummins Inc.
Yang Lei, Ph.D.
HP Inc.
Yuka Nomura
IBM
Jessica Rimsza, Ph.D.
Sandia National Laboratories
Tania Rodriguez Sanchez, P.E.
HP Inc.
TRAILBLAZER AWARD
Krissel Cavazos
John Deere
Nisha Hollingsworth, Ph.D.
Solventum
Aishwarya Jadhav
Waymo
Lauren Lydecker, Ph.D.
Boston Scientific
Swarada Mitragotri
John Deere
Paige Molzahn
Jacobs
Gabrielle Mueller
Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation
Mayura Padmanabhan
SEMI
Valentina Palmiotti
IBM
Cato Pappijn, Ph.D.
Dow
Yashvi Singh
Micron Technology
Ciara Sivels, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Jordina Torrents Barrena, Ph.D.
HP Inc.
Emily Walvoord
RWE
RISING TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTORS
Debasmita Banerjee
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida
Emma Civil
Cummins Inc.
Cassandra Coyle
Diagrid
Ria Dash
3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing Center of Excellence at HP Inc.
Emily Davenport
GE Aerospace
Hanusha Durisety
Iron Mountain
Zoe Husted
Google
Allissa Jones
DuPont
Susan Kihembo
Kiira Motors Corporation
Kyrie LeMahieu
Brunswick Corporation
Yutong Pang, Ph.D.
Dow
Maria Cristina Peña Fuentes
Carrier
Arunima Saxena, Ph.D.
Dow
Emily Sneddon
Merck & Co.
Caroline Spencer
SWE Savannah Coastal Empire Section
Nujhat Tasneem, Ph.D.
Intel
Ana Ulloa Gomez, Ph.D.
Dow
Melissa Venedicto
Boston Scientific
Rebecca Vollmann
ABB E-mobility
Alexis Winkle
Spirit AeroSystems
ENGINEERING EDUCATOR AWARD
Amalate Obuebite, Ph.D.
Niger Delta University
Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, Ph.D.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
EMERGING ENGINEERING EDUCATOR AWARD
Vanessa Nappi, Ph.D.
Santa Catarina State University
DISTINGUISHED GLOBAL LEADER AWARD
Gainy Duisenova
Wabtec Corporation
Chris Huang, P.Eng
HP Inc.
Esugasini Subramaniam
Micron Technology
GLOBAL LEADER AWARD
Karen Medhat, P.Eng
IBM
Deanna Rockefeller
Lockheed Martin
Zephyr Xie
HP Inc.
EMERGING GLOBAL LEADER AWARD
Fernanda Mendes de Morais
Whirlpool Corporation
Doris Moreno Maldonado
Kellanova
Kalyani Pani
John Deere
ENGAGED ADVOCATE AWARD
Stephanie Busch
SWE Phoenix Section
Stacey Darling
Johnson & Johnson
Yin Wai Vanessa Li-Davis
Novelis
Megan Stewart
GE Vernova
Inga Urbina
Keysight Technologies
EMERGING ADVOCATE AWARD
Alyssa Fielitz, Ph.D.
Dow
Aakanksha Gadh
Micron Technology
Erin Hong
The Aerospace Corporation
Kristen Keyes
Hill Air Force Base
Ashley Sierra
John Deere
IGNITE AWARD
Mariana A Pinto
Whirlpool Corporation
Katie Erikson
Dow
Jamie Krakover
The Boeing Company
Kerri Phillips, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Mohan Vadnere
John Deere
CATALYST AWARD
Kruti Newalkar
MKSSS”s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune
Dallas Quinones
Lockheed Martin
Maxine Taylor
DuPont
ENGAGED ALLY AWARD
Kevin Brittain
Cummins Inc.
Michael Nevinsky
The Boeing Company
Murali Sekar
John Deere
EMERGING ALLY AWARD
Vikram Kumar
Cummins Inc.
EMPLOYER CHAMPION AWARD
Fisher Chennai Engineering Centre, Emerson Electric Co (India) Pvt Ltd
Fisher Chennai Engineering Center, Emerson
ESTEEMED PROFESSIONAL MEMBER AWARD
Jodi Ashmun
Collins Aerospace, an RTX Business
Fabiane Conrad
John Deere
Juliana Dagnese
John Deere
Amy Gelsinger
SWE Houston Area Section
Abbie Kimerling, Ph.D.
Nike Inc.
Gulnaaz Shikalgar
John Deere
Elizabeth Stelzer
Hemlock Semiconductor
ESTEEMED NEW PROFESSIONAL MEMBER AWARD
Caroline Agostini
SWE Brazil Joinville Section
Sakshi Aher
John Deere India Pvt Ltd.
Haley Antoine Grantham
Toyota Motor North America Inc.
Leah Baker
Medtronic
Samantha Billetdeaux
Milwaukee Tool
Mariel Cisneros
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Alice Connelli
BD
Sylvie DeLaHunt
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Claire Dvorak
SWE Greater Salt Lake Section
Ophelia Basil Fernandes
John Deere India Pvt Ltd.
Katia Gomez Argote, P.E.
SWE Dallas Section
Wendy Hammond
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Syntyche Koumaglo
Cummins Inc.
Yesica Martínez
Cummins Inc.
Nikki Moore
Otis
Sarah Oldenburg
Williams
Lorraine Piccorelli
Sikorsky Aircraft, A Lockheed
Martin Company
Anna Sajer
Intel
Veronica Sanchez Benavides, P.E.
John Deere
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT MEMBER AWARD
Nkechi Akinwale
University of Cincinnati
Fatemeh Ganji
SWE Iowa State University Section
Laura Gray
SWE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Section
Esther Jokodola
Iowa State University
Ju Hyun Lee
Yale University
Jenna Salmen
Georgia Institute of Technology
Ozge Uyanik
University of South Florida
Rachel Varughese
The Ohio State University
OUTSTANDING COLLEGIATE MEMBER AWARD
Isha Bhandari
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Victoria Brown
University of Michigan
Taylor Carey
Montana State University
Jaime Gleason
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Madeleine Gonley
University of Michigan
Raissa Natacha Ineza
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Anisha Jackson
SWE Rutgers University Section
Alexandra Jensen
University of California, Los Angeles
Thendral Kamal
Purdue University
Callie Lewis
The University of Akron
Jamie Luna
California Polytechnic State U., San Luis Obispo
Naina Makkad
University of San Diego
Abigail Mizzi
SWE Purdue University, West Lafayette Section
Madalyn Nguyen
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Marguerite Smith
Banner Witcoff
Ellie Spiewak
The Ohio State University
Sriya Surapaneni
SWE Georgia Institute of Technology Section
Ananya Thapar
SWE California Polytechnic State U,, San Luis Obispo Section
Grace Townley
University of Michigan
Katherine Wu
Carnegie Mellon University
RISING COLLEGIATE
STAR AWARD
Sabreen Alam
Princeton University
Anna Bartelt
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hannah Cutler
University of California,
Santa Barbara
Grace Pang
University of Michigan
Taylor Sheffield
The University of Alabama
Ishita Shete
MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune
Shaniya Thomas
University of Michigan
Megan Walston
Miami University
Drue Whitson
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jenny Yang
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
OUTSTANDING COUNSELOR AWARD
Wendy Cocke
Georgia Institute of Technology
OUTSTANDING FACULTY ADVISOR AWARD
Colleen Bush, P.E.
Miami University
