In recognition of the many exceptional achievements of our department faculty and staff, the department has four annual achievement awards:
Faculty Research Achievement
Faculty Teaching Achievement
Faculty Service Achievement
Staff Service Achievement
The awards are in recognition of “exceptional achievement” during the preceding year. The recipients are selected in late November of each year, and the awards are presented at the department's holiday reception in mid to late December.
| YEAR | STAFF AWARD | TEACHING AWARD | RESEARCH AWARD | SERVICE AWARD | LEADERSHIP AWARD |
| 2003 | Frieda Mosby | Francis L. Merat | Narasingarao Sreenath | Marcus R. Buchner | Mehran Mehregany |
| 2004 | Elizabeth Fuller-Murray | Michael S. Branicky | Behnam Malakooti | Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu | Mehran Mehregany |
| 2005 | Simon Kuhn
Paul Schneider | Chris Fietkiewicz | Jiong Yang
Jing Li | Marcus R. Buchner | Mehran Mehregany |
| 2006 | Annette Messina | Wyatt Newman | Michael “Misha”Rabinovich | George W. Ernst | Gultekin Ozsoyoglu 2003-06 |
| 2007 | Cheryl Lange
Marla Radvansky | Michael S. Branicky | Carlos Mastrangelo | Marcus R. Buchner
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu | Wyatt Newman |
| 2008 | William Wichert | Swarup Bhunia | Pedram Mohseni
Andy Podgurski | Francis Merat | |