This award is presented to graduating seniors whose accomplishments in engineering design are judged to be most outstanding. Evidence might include accomplishments during a co-op or internship assignment or on a summer job, or achievements on a project for an upper division design course. This memorial award honors Professor Dere who also worked at IBM and was known to be outstanding in engineering systems design.

Awardees

  • 2023-2024 Rohan Kumar, Viansa Schmulbach
  • 2022-2023 Kamyar Salahi
  • 2021-2022 Gautam Mittal
  • 2020-2021 Adi Ganapathi, Harry Zhang
  • 2019-2020 Ahad Rauf
  • 2018-2019 Philipp Wu, Brent Yi
  • 2017-2018 Rohan Phadte
  • 2016-2017 Xinyang (Young) Geng, David Marn, Ashvin Nair, Mihir Patil
  • 2015-2016 Peter James Ahrens, Dibyo Debasish Majumdar, Thaibao Quoc Phan, Marvin Zhang
  • 2014-2015 Edward Groshev, Wisam Reid, Eldon Schoop, Rishi Sharma, Sahaana Suri
  • 2013-2014 Siddhartho Bhattacharya, Ankush Gupta, Rohin Shah, Claire Margaret Tuna
  • 2012-2013 Kathy Sun, Ziang Xie
  • 2011-2012 Yewen Pu, Wei Wu
  • 2010-2011 James Ide
  • 2009-2010 Hartej Dhami, Farzad Fatollahi-Fard, Amanullah Mohiudin
  • 2008-2009 Minh Van Pham Ly, Ashik Manandhar, Trung Tran
  • 2007-2008 Wai Son (Wilson) Ko
  • 2006-2007 John Breneman, Robert Gregg, Roderick Mann
  • 2005-2006 Rosen Nikolaev Diankov
  • 2004-2005 Arlo Faria
  • 2003-2004 Michael Toomin
  • 2002-2003 Daniel Horn
  • 2001-2002 Aman Bhargava
  • 2000-2001 Jeffrey Heer
  • 1999-2000 Paul Huang
  • 1998-1999 Chris Olston
  • 1997-1998 Dmitry Derevyanko, Allan Liu, Yuriy Regelman
  • 1996-1997 Edmond Lau
  • 1995-1996 David Hsu
  • 1994-1995 Ravi Narasimhan
  • 1993-1994 Michael Horton
  • 1992-1993 "Leo" Ki-Chun Fu, Trevor Pering, Benedict Tse
  • 1991-1992 Michael Chen
  • 1990-1991 Richard Edell, Chris Ruemmler
  • 1989-1990 Bart Bombay
  • 1988-1989 Robert Currie
  • 1987-1988 Ken Nishimura