SoE Faculty Among 2023-24 University-wide Faculty Year-end Excellence Award Recipients 

Each year, Rutgers faculty members selected by their colleagues are awarded University-wide Faculty Year-end Excellence Awards. This year, four members of the School of Engineering (SoE) faculty have been honored for their outstanding contributions to teaching and research.  

Bo Yuan, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a recipient of The Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, which recognizes his research contributions to research during his early years at Rutgers. His broad-ranging research focuses on various technical fields and layers towards building next-generation intelligent systems 

The Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence honors the outstanding teaching of faculty at the beginning of their Rutgers careers. Edward DeMauro, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Umer Hassan, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are each recipients of this fellowship.  

Through his research efforts, Hassan has developed point-of-care (PoC) translational biosensors for infectious disease diagnostic applications, that Prenosis, Inc, the start-up he co-founded, is working on commercializing. 

DeMauro’s research interests encompass fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, compressible flow, with a focus using the Emil Buehler Supersonic Wind Tunnel to study flow physics and control in a varied number of applications.  

Yuebin Guo, the Henry Rutgers Professor of Advanced Manufacturing in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering received a Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research, which honors the research contributions of tenured faculty members. Manufacturing processes; AI manufacturing; physics-informed machine learning; digital twin; surface integrity and functionality; and materials informatics are among his research areas of distinction.