2024 Investiture

Processional

Faculty Marshal: Geoffroy Hautier, Hodgson Family Associate Professor of Engineering

Student Marshals: (see article)
Julia Elizabeth Huddy, PhD candidate
Matthew J. Eybs, MEng candidate
Oreoluwasubomi O. Gbotosho, MEM candidate
David James Edington, BE candidate

Welcome

Alexis Abramson, Dean & Professor
David Kotz '86, Provost

Awards

Student Awards: (award descriptions)

• The Richard W. Olmsted 1932 (Thayer 1933) Prize: Gabriel M. Landi '24
• Faculty Award for Academic Excellence: David Edington
  
• Dartmouth Society of Engineers Prize: Gretchen Ruth Carpenter, Byron Dean Francis, Mia Katherine Giallorenzi, Xinping Ran, and Anisia Gabriela Țiplea
  
• Charles F. and Ruth D. Goodrich Prize: Adelaide Linden Cagle
  
• Corporate Collaboration Council Engineering Management Prize: Juan Francisco Alzugaray Arbeleche
  
• Caroline Henderson Prize: Filip Jakub Nowicki
  
• Master of Engineering Award: Matthew Werts
• John C. Woodhouse Engineering Design Prize: Huan Zhao
  
• John C. Woodhouse Environmental Engineering Prize: Alyssa N. Pantaleo
  
• Brieanna S. Weinstein Engineering Design Prize: Avery Sage Jones, Adrienne Coleman, Lauren Rebecca Kader, and Olivia Simone McField
  
• John W. Strohbehn, PhD, Memorial Prize: Savannah Marie Decker
  
• Dartmouth Engineering Prize for Graduate Research Excellence: Julia Elizabeth Huddy
  
• Don Stayner Th'16 Changemaker Award: Colin Finn Braun, Catherine Casson, Sarah Torpie Hutchinson, Sierra H. Lee, Sarah Jiwoo Nam, and Grace Turner
  
• Dean's Service Award: Julia Elizabeth Huddy
  

Faculty, Staff, and Community Awards: (award descriptions)

• Outstanding Service Award for Staff: Emily Monroe and Sarah Heidebrecht
  
• Outstanding Service Award for Faculty: 2023-2024 Faculty Search Committee—Professor George Cybenko, Professor Hui Fang, Professor Klaus Keller, Professor Laura Ray (chair), Professor Vikrant Vaze
• Thayer Diversity and Inclusion Award: Professor Yan Li, and Bill Serena Yombe Tchoumpmi
  
• Thayer Distinguished Research Award for Faculty: Professor Geoffroy Hautier
  
• Woodhouse Excellence in Teaching Award: Professor Geoffrey P. Luke

Student Address

Chase A. Yakaboski, PhD candidate (see transcript)

Presentation of the Robert Fletcher Award

Alexis Abramson, Dean & Professor, presented the Robert Fletcher Award.

Keynote Address

2024 Robert Fletcher Award recipient Mung Chiang, Purdue University president and distinguished electrical engineer (see transcript)

Conferring of Hoods

Academic deans and program directors conferred hoods to BE, MEng, MEM, and MS candidates. Faculty advisors in attendance conferred hoods to their respective PhD candidates.

Closing Remarks

Alexis Abramson, Dean & Professor

Recessional

Graduates and faculty recessed and gathered in the Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center (ECSC) for a class photo.

Reception

Reception immediately followed on the patio outside the Class of 1982 ECSC.