Student Award Nominations
The EECS Department invites nominations annually from faculty, students and staff for these undergraduate and graduate awards. Please take the time to consider nominating deserving students for this year's student awards.
Nomination Procedure
Compose a letter (approximately 1 page) for each nominee explaining your reason for recommending the student. Nominators should specifically address how the nominee meets the award criteria. Attach any relevant materials that will assist the Student Awards Committee in making their decision, such as: publications, CV, additional letters of nomination. The committee may seek additional information concerning the most promising nominees. Previous recipients of an award are ineligible to receive the same award again, but may be recommended for any remaining awards. Nominators are encouraged to refer to the description of each award, which includes a list of previous awardees.
Undergraduate Awards
Academic Achievement
Arthur M. Hopkin Award
This award honors an outstanding Electrical Engineering undergraduate who demonstrates seriousness of purpose and high academic achievement. To be used by the student for furthering their education.
Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship
This scholarship provides merit-based funding for tuition to undergraduate students pursuing degrees in Computer Science.
Breadth
Samuel Silver Memorial Scholarship Award
Presented annually to an Electrical Engineering or Computer Sciences undergraduate or graduate student who best combines intellectual achievement in science and engineering with serious humanistic and cultural interests. Previous recipients possessed outstanding accomplishments in music, art, and other areas of the humanities.
Design
Warren Y. Dere Design Award
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.
GSI
EECS Outstanding TA Awards
Each year the department selects students who served as the most distinguished Graduate Student Instructors during the previous calendar year. Students are selected based on faculty nominations and student ratings provided by the UC Berkeley chapters Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) and IEEE.
Innovation
Timothy B. Campbell Innovation Award
This award is presented to a CS or EE student who demonstrates a spirit of innovation, collaboration, and creativity through their research and personal life.
James H. Eaton Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to undergraduate students who have demonstrated a keen sense of creativity and inventiveness.
Military Service
James Tullock Memorial Scholarship Award
This scholarship is intended for EECS undergraduate and graduate students who are veterans of any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Nonlinear Science
Leon O. Chua Award
This award is presented annually to an undergraduate or graduate student, or to a recent alumnus, for outstanding achievement in an area of nonlinear science from any discipline, including biological, engineering, mathematical, physical and social sciences.
Personal Triumph
Eugene L. Lawler Prize
The Lawler Prize honors computer science undergraduates and graduates from disadvantaged groups or who have surmounted unusual difficulties in pursuing a degree with demonstrated academic effort.
Research
C.V. & Daulat Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award
This award can be made to any CS graduate student based on outstanding contributions to a new research area in computer science and engineering.
Technology in Support of Service
Kevin K. Gong Memorial Scholarship
The Kevin K. Gong Memorial Scholarship for Bright Minds and Big Hearts provides student support to Computer Science or EECS students (rising sophomores - seniors) who are passionate about using technology to better the world.
undergraduate students
CRA Undergraduate Research Award
This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research. The award is primarily about research. While it is expected that successful nominees will have excellent academic records and will have engaged in some form of service (e.g., club leadership, teaching, peer tutoring), excellence in research is the primary consideration.
Graduate Awards
Altruism
Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award
This award is presented annually to an Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences graduate student who is beyond the preliminary examination and is proceeding to a doctoral degree. The purpose of the award is to recognize students who, in addition to conducting research, unselfishly take the time to help colleagues beyond the normal cooperation existing between fellow students.
Breadth
Samuel Silver Memorial Scholarship Award
Presented annually to an Electrical Engineering or Computer Sciences undergraduate or graduate student who best combines intellectual achievement in science and engineering with serious humanistic and cultural interests. Previous recipients possessed outstanding accomplishments in music, art, and other areas of the humanities.
Entrepreneurism
Sevin Rosen Funds Award for Innovation
This award recognizes innovative technical achievement with potential for entrepreneurial success and is awarded annually to an EECS graduate student based on outstanding technical achievement in a research area in computer sciences or electrical engineering.
GSI
EECS Outstanding TA Awards
Each year the department selects students who served as the most distinguished Graduate Student Instructors during the previous calendar year. Students are selected based on faculty nominations and student ratings provided by the UC Berkeley chapters Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) and IEEE.
Innovation
Timothy B. Campbell Innovation Award
This award is presented to a CS or EE student who demonstrates a spirit of innovation, collaboration, and creativity through their research and personal life.
Military Service
James Tullock Memorial Scholarship Award
This scholarship is intended for EECS undergraduate and graduate students who are veterans of any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Nonlinear Science
Leon O. Chua Award
This award is presented annually to an undergraduate or graduate student, or to a recent alumnus, for outstanding achievement in an area of nonlinear science from any discipline, including biological, engineering, mathematical, physical and social sciences.
Personal Triumph
Eugene L. Lawler Prize
The Lawler Prize honors computer science undergraduates and graduates from disadvantaged groups or who have surmounted unusual difficulties in pursuing a degree with demonstrated academic effort.
Research
C.V. & Daulat Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award
This award can be made to any CS graduate student based on outstanding contributions to a new research area in computer science and engineering.
David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize
This prize is made annually to graduate students who have completed what is deemed by a faculty committee to be a truly outstanding piece of research.
Semiconductor, Magnetic, Optical or Electronic Materials
Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award
This award recognizes superior work and scholarship in the characterization, development and/or use of semiconductor, magnetic, optical or electronic materials by a graduate student or students pursuing such areas of inquiry. It is presented officially at the annual spring Metallurgical Society Northern California Electronics Materials Symposium.
Soft Computing
Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize
In honor of EECS Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh, this prize is to be awarded to a graduating PhD for outstanding contributions to soft computing and its applications.
Systems, Communications, Control/Signal Processing
Eli Jury Award
This award is presented to graduate students or recent alumni for outstanding achievement in the area of systems, communications, control, or signal processing.