Professional:

  • NSF: Advancing STEM Careers By Empowering Network Development (ASCEND) Faculty Fellow (2020-2024)
  • TEDI-London Summer School: Invited Project Mentor and Senior Lecturer (2020)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Member-at-Large Outstanding MAL Leader Award (2019)
  • KEEN: 5th Place in the ASEE Best Card Competition (2019)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Distinguished New Engineer Award (2016)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Collegiate Section Award – Silver Level for the JMU Collegiate Section (2016)
  • ASME Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing (AM3D) Conference: Best Poster Award (2015)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Outstanding New Collegiate Section Award for the JMU Collegiate Section (2015, 2014)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Member-at-Large Rising Star Award (2014)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Member-at-Large Best Newsletter Article Award (2014)
  • Marquis Who’s Who: Selected for Who’s Who in America 68th Edition (2014)
  • James Madison Innovations, Inc.: JMU Intellectual Property Disclosure Incentive Program, Awarded one of the Top 5 IP disclosures for 2012-13 (2014)
  • National Engineer’s Week Foundation: New Faces of Engineering Award, nominated by IEEE-USA (2012)
  • James Madison University: Madison Teaching Fellowship on Deep Learning (2011-2012)

Collegiate:

  • Marquis Who’s Who: Selected for Who’s Who in America 65th Edition (2011)
  • ASME: IDETC/CIE Conference Student Competition Winner (2010, 2009)
  • National Science Foundation: Travel Grant to attend ASME IDETC/CIE (2009)
  • Missouri University of Science & Technology: Chancellor’s Fellow (2007-2009)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Graduate Student Poster Competition Finalist (2009, 2008, 2007)
  • University of Missouri-Rolla: Intelligent Systems Center 1st Annual Research Symposium–1st Place (2007)
  • Society of Women Engineers: Caterpillar Scholarship (2007)
  • Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society: Educational Foundation Scholarship (2006)
  • Eta Kappa Nu: Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Senior Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Honorable Mention (2005)
  • University of Missouri-Rolla: Women in Science and Engineering Transfer Scholarship (2002-2003)
  • Who’s Who: Selected for Who’s Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges 37th Edition (2002)
  • Phi Theta Kappa: International Most Distinguished Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa award, Mu Delta (2002)
  • Phi Theta Kappa: Internationally Distinguished Member Award (1 of 25) (2001)
  • Phi Theta Kappa: Presidential Scholarship (2000-2002)