2007 College of Engineering Honors Convocation

The College of Engineering celebrated excellence at the annual Honors Convocation on Friday, April 27, 2007 in the Weasler Auditorium on the Marquette campus. The Convocation honors students for academic excellence and service outreach, faculty for outstanding teaching and research, and five College of Engineering for alumni for their achievements. Alumni award recipients are chosen by the Engineering Alumni Association.

100 undergraduate students were honored for their academic excellence and service outreach. Click here to view the Honor's Convocation program with a complete list of all award recipients.

Professor Jon Meus, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was selected to receive the 2007 Outstanding Teacher Award for the College of Engineering.  He received this award because of his "unique talent to teach fundamental engineering courses to our students and his consistent accessibility to them". This is the second time Professor Meus has received this award. Recipients of the award are selected for excellence in teaching by a faculty member.  The ballots were distributed to this year’s senior-standing students in selected senior classes.

Dr. Michael Johnson, Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, received the Outstanding Researcher Award for 2007 for the College of Engineering.  The award was given to Dr. Johnson for his "prolific research in speech and signal processing, as evidenced by his high-profile global research initiative The Dr. Doolittle Project." Recipients of this award are recognized for excellence in research by a faculty member during the last five years.  This award is based on selection criteria that include; significant publications, funded research, graduate student productivity, and “state of the art” technology.  An independent selection committee selected Professor Johnson, from a group of very outstanding finalists, to be this year’s recipient.