Dean’s Scholar Awards

The Dean’s Scholar Award recognizes the college’s best and brightest incoming first-year students, with no extra application form to fill out. Each year, the college works with departments to identify the top applicants to their graduate programs that we feel will be successful here at Iowa State. This prestigious merit award guarantees funding for up to three years as long as the student continues to demonstrate academic and professional qualities that set them apart within their academic program. The Dean’s office supplements one academic year of funding and provides two months of full support over the summer. Please see below a listing of our current and past recipients.

First Name	Last name	Department
FISCAL YEAR 2025
Christian	Pscenica	Aerospace Engineering
Yugal Krishna	Shrestha	Aerospace Engineering
Manner Thurlby	Atimboro	Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Ravi	Shastri	Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Thomas	Lenz	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Qizheng	Xia	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Luke	Bullock	Materials Science and Engineering
(Chizoba) Livina	Iheme	Materials Science and Engineering
Samira Islam	Shaily	Mechanical Engineering
Wyatt	Curtis	Mechanical Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2024
Erin	Ashley	Aerospace Engineering
Hannah	Blumhoefer	Aerospace Engineering (Fall 2023)
Carlos	Valentin	Aerospace Engineering
Lawrence	DiPaolo	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Partth	Laad	Aerospace Engineering
Joshua	Mensah-Larkai	Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Muneer	Qudaisat	Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
Eman	Alqudah	Electrical and Computer Engineering
William	Asiedu	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Qizheng	Xia	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Ricardo	Ortega	Materials Science and Engineering
Amruta	Vaghela	Materials Science and Engineering
Uddeshya	Shukla	Materials Science and Engineering
Brayden	Berg	Mechanical Engineering
Fatemeh	Hassanpour	Mechanical Engineering
Zihan	Zhang	Mechanical Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2023
Hannah	Blumhoefer	Aerospace Engineering (Spring 2023)
Vivek	Garg	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Md Mosaddek	Hossen	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Aditya	Sengupta	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sina	Aghakani	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Sang Hyeon	Kang	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Jiwon	Kim	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Nayanathara Hendeniya	Mudiyanselage	Materials Science and Engineering
Olajesu	Olanrewaju	Materials Science and Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2022
Soheyl Faghir	Hagh	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ruoyu	Meng	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rebeka	Sultana	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Atousa	Arzanipour	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Connor	Thorpe	Materials Science and Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2021
Dhananjay	Dileep	Chemical and Biological Engineering
	Ananya	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Yuhan	Zhang	Civil and Construction Engineering
Andalib	Shams	Civil and Construction Engineering
Balaji	Pokuri	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sharwan	Ram	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Silpa	Babu	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Taimoor	Islam	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Atefeh	Anisi	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Ghazal Shah	Abadi	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Sam	De Penning	Mechanical Engineering
Manish	Mosalpuri	Mechanical Engineering
Nathan	Jared	Mechanical Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2020
Hossein	Alimohammadi	Civil and Construction Engineering
Kwabena Oppong	Banahene	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chenyu	Xu	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Guoying	Zu	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yifan	Zhang	Mechanical Engineering
Michael	Welch	Mechanical Engineering
Andrew	Harkaway	Mechanical Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2019
ÊShailja	Goyal	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Geet	Gupta	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Monirul	Islam	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Fatemeh	Amini	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Zachary	Johnson	Mechanical Engineering
Sarang	Bidwai	Mechanical Engineering
Fateme Fotuhi	Ardakani	Mechanical Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2018
Cody	Newlun	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Srayashi	Konar	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Renyuan	Yang	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mingdian	Liu	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Javad	Ansarifar	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Vahid	Azizi	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Gorkem	Emirhuseyinoglu	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Samira	Karimzadeh	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Zhuoyi	Zhao	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2017
Youngdoo	Kim	Aerospace Engineering
Fynn	Reinbacher	Aerospace Engineering
Joel	Varghese	Aerospace Engineering
ChangHuang	Wan	Aerospace Engineering
Suzanne	Leonard	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Richa	Sharma	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Princess	Dantes	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Moises	Contreras-Ramos	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sadaf	Charkhabi	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Alessandro	Cancelli	Civil and Construction Engineering
Laura	Micheli	Civil and Construction Engineering
Ning	Zhang	Civil and Construction Engineering
Vilar Rayla	Pinto	Civil and Construction Engineering
Seyedmohammadsajed	Sadati	Civil and Construction Engineering
Trong Duc	Nguyen	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bowei	Zhang	Mechanical Engineering
Danyu	Li	Mechanical Engineering
Makrand	Khanwale	Mechanical Engineering
Marilyn	McNamara	Mechanical Engineering
Alex	Wrede	Mechanical Engineering
Shengwen	Xie	Mechanical Engineering
Meng	Li	Mechanical Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2016
Racheet	Matai	Aerospace Engineering
Saveri	Pal	Aerospace Engineering
Syed	Shihab	Aerospace Engineering
Rajarshi	Biswas	Aerospace Engineering
Fatima	Enam	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Atefe	Hadi	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sungbum	Hong	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mir	Hossen	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Yuerui	Huang	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Susanna	Kuuttila	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Cheng	Peng	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Samuel	Rothstein	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Alireza	Saraeian	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sujata	Senapati	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Shuting	Yan	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Saveri		Aerospace Engineering
Syed	Shihab	Aerospace Engineering
Liqun	Ma	Aerospace Engineering
Rajarshi	Biswas	Aerospace Engineering
Augusto	Magalhaes-Souza	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Manish	Shrivastav	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Anuraag	Boddupalli	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Russell	Mahmood	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Yujie	Wang	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Kanika	Lamba	Civil and Construction Engineering
Liang	Hu	Civil and Construction Engineering
Dikshant Singh	Saini	Civil and Construction Engineering
Yongqiang	Gong	Civil and Construction Engineering
Behrang	Bagheri	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Shanshan	Ma	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yunshan	Xu	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yan	Qin	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sadia Rakinur	Rab	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yijian	Zhang	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Maryam	Rahmani Moghaddam	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Wanyu	Huang	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Meghana	Akella	Mechanical Engineering
Kshama	Parate	Mechanical Engineering
Sambuddha	Ghosal	Mechanical Engineering
Ridong	Wang	Mechanical Engineering
Xiaohui	Tang	Mechanical Engineering
Vahid	Tavanashad	Mechanical Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2015
Andrew	Bodling	Aerospace Engineering
Dadja	Kessie	Aerospace Engineering
Jie	Ren	Aerospace Engineering
Sean	Kelly	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Fang-Yi	Lin	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Carmen	Lopez	Chemical and Biological Engineering
David	Williams	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Wei	Zheng	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ji	Qi	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Yang	Qui	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mohamed	Elkashef	Civil and Construction Engineering
Arash	Maghsoudloo	Civil and Construction Engineering
Liangyu	Tan	Civil and Construction Engineering
Jorge	Rueda	Civil and Construction Engineering
Apurba	Das	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sara	Neshani	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ramakrishnan	Venkataraman	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Xinran	Wang	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Qi	Xiao	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Manjil	Ray	Mechanical Engineering
Aayush	Sharma	Mechanical Engineering
Pengyu	Yuan	Mechanical Engineering
Rigelesaiyin	Ji	Aerospace Engineering
Russell	Mahmodd	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Anuraag	Boddupalli	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Yujie	Wang	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Elizabeth	Luby	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Manish	Shrivastav	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Yijian	Zhang	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
FISCAL YEAR 2014
Michael	Forrester	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Lili	Zheng	Chemical and Biological Engineering
Dadja	Kessie	Aerospace Engineering
Behnam	Moghadassian	Aerospace Engineering
Andrew	Bodling	Aerospace Engineering
Abdolghani	Ebrahimi	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Fikri	Kucuksayacigil	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Jorge	Rueda	Civil and Construction Engineering
Agnivo	Gosai	Mechanical Engineering
Ganesh	Krishnan	Mechanical Engineering
Katherine	Hinkle	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Tianjian	Tong	Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Ziyang	He	Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

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