SOE Staff Awards

Staff Travel Awards

Beginning Fall 2010, Dean Maji set aside $20,000 for the Staff Travel Awards to enable staff to travel to conferences, workshops or seminars. Applicants are chosen based on meeting criteria and submitting winning applications.Awards past AY 10-11 are dependent upon availability of future funding and support from future leadership.

2011 Staff Travel Award Winners

• Courtney Ganstine, Computer Science, for the Simmons Leadership Conference: Passion & Profession
• Candyce Torres, Civil Engineering, for the Administrative Assistants Conference
• Stoney Haver, Mechanical Engineering, for the LabView 1 Core Training
• Josie Gibson, Civil Engineering, for the WEPAN Conference
• Lynn Conner, Engineering Student Services, for the NCDA Global Career Development Conference

2010 Staff Travel Award Winners

• Elsa M. Castillo, Engineering Student Services, for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Conference  
• George Kelbley, Computer Science, for the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference
• Katie Krieger, Dean’s Office, for the Management and Leadership Skills for First-Time Supervisors and Managers
• Lourdes McKenna, Computer Science, for the STEMtech Conference
• Steven Peralta, Engineering Student Services, for the NASA Education Stakeholder’s Summit in Chantilly
• Tamara Williams, Dean’s Office, for the American Marketing Association Symposium for Marketing in Higher Education

2010 Gerald W. May Recognition Award

Candyce Torres, Administrative Assistant, Civil Engineering
Candyce Torres, administrative assistant for the Department of Civil Engineering, was one of three recipients of the prestigious 2010 Gerald W. May Staff Recognition Award.

Awardees are chosen for their exceptional service to the UNM community; positive, effective representation of UNM; initiative and innovative performance of job duties; involvement, dedication and exemplary commitment as UNM staff; and other contributions. Each received a plaque and $1,000.

 

Annual Awards

Each year the UNM School of Engineering recognizes several outstanding faculty, staff and students. Staff members are nominated by faculty and staff from the school and recipients are selected by the school academic and department administrators. The criteria for selecting outstanding staff include attitude, performance, contribution and initiative.

2011 Outstanding Staff Awards

Josie Gibson	Courtney Ganstine	Isela Roeder
Civil Engineering	Computer Science	Center for Biomedical Engineering

2010 Outstanding Staff Awards

Mark Dalen	Mike Majedi	Doug Williams
Mechanical Engineering	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Engineering Student Services

2009 Outstanding Staff Awards

Jocelyn White	Estelle Zamora	Ruth McDonald
Chemical & Nuclear Engineering	Center for Mircoengineering Materials	Computer Science

 

2009 Provost Committee Outstanding Staff Awards

Elsa Castillo, Scholarships Program Manager, Engineering Student Services
Castillo's commitment and dedication to engineering students' success exemplifies the high excellence and professionalism promoted throughout the School of Engineering. Her work in ESS, both in scholarship and program advisement, has fortified increased student access to financing their education, giving students the means to pursing their engineering ambitions.

2009 Women of Influence

Pam Hurd-Knief
Hurd-Knief is among the 2009 Women of Influence, as named by the New Mexico Business Weekly. The 31 women represented the spectrum of business and industry — trades, law, banking, real estate, banking, arts and education. Hurd-Knief, senior director of development for the School of Engineering, stood out as UNM's sole recipient. New Mexico Business Weekly reporter Damon Scott wrote, "UNM has benefited from her fund-raising energies for the past decade, as she raised money for the School of Architecture and Planning and now the School of Engineering."