To the Faculty and Staff of the Lyles School of Civil and ConstructionEngineering: I am writing to solicit nominations for the Fall 2025 CCE Graduate Student Engagement Award. This award was previously named the Outstanding Grad Student Award, but we have adjusted the title to reflect the "service" intent of the award. All CCE Engineering MSCE and PhD students graduating in Fall 2025 are eligible for this award, list is at the bottom of this message. The CCE Graduate Student Engagement Award is selected according to the following criteria (listed in order of importance): . Service to Purdue (to the College of Engineering or the university as a whole) . Service to Community (volunteer work, community projects, etc.) . Service Character (willingness to serve, positive attitude, helpful and enjoyable) . Organizational Involvement (student organizations and clubs, honor societies and organizations, departmental organizations, etc.) . Technical Achievements (patents, publications, research work, technical awards, coops/ internships, etc.) . Academic Achievements (honors, awards, teaching assistant, etc.) Please take the time to nominate a student who you believe is deserving of this award, reflecting the students service activities, by sending an e-mail to me. Please include a nomination letter, the student's resume and Purdue transcripts (as one pdf). If you have questions about potential nominees please feel free to contact me. The deadline for nominations is 8:00 am December 8, 2025. We will accept one nomination per faculty/staff person. All nominations will be reviewed by the CCE Grad Office, who will be responsible for ranking them and selecting the recipient Regards, Jenny MSCE Chitalia, Gopal ARC PhD Lu, Sichen ARC MSCE Sul, Jin ARC MSCE Alshamsi, Ghanem CON MSCE Dong, Minghao CON PhD Zhang, Yuxi CON, CSE MSCE Chavan, Sayali CON, LEM MSCE Hashem, Alaa CON, LEM MSCE Sridhar Vishnupriya, Laasya CON, LEM MSCE Al-Tal, Hamzeh ENV, LEM MSCE Sharma, Bhavesh ENV, LEM PhD Manish, Raja GEM PhD Goldstein Fridman, Daniel GET PhD Liu, Jidong GET PhD Roshan Kotian, Romika GET PhD Joseph, Jibin HYD MSCE Sunil Kumar, Namith HYD MSCE Tietz, Ella HYD PhD Pham, Nhu HYD, ESE PhD Dasika, Phani Saketh MAT MSCE Patil, Rushabh MAT PhD Abdelaleim, Osama STR MSCE Bist, Biraj STR MSCE Dyrmishi, Blerta STR MSCE Joshi, Baibhav STR PhD Mustafic, Mirnes STR MSCE Perez, Kennedy STR PhD Ruiz, Raquel STR PhD Sharma, Shivam STR MSCE Shirke, Madhura STR MSCE Stutzman, George STR PhD Suthar, Deepak STR MSCE Thammineni, Sudarsahan Reddy STR MSCE Alabi, Bortiorkor Nii TRA PhD Cui, Can TRA MSCE Gartner, Christhoper TRA PhD Hamim, Omar TRA MSCE Harris, Lyndsey TRA PhD Ka, Eunhan TRA PhD Li, Yujie TRA PhD Mwamba, Isaiah TRA MSCE Narayanan, Priya TRA Jenny Ricksy Burke Graduate Program Administrator Ph: 765-494-2436 Email: jricksy@purdue.edu<mailto:jricksy@purdue.edu> Lyles School of Civil Engineering 550 Stadium Mall Drive - HAMP 1141G West Lafayette, IN 47907 Current Residential Students: https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/Academics/Graduate/Current Current Online Students: https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/Academics/Graduate/Online/curriculum Prospective Residential Students: https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/Academics/Graduate/Degree-Requirements Prospective Online Students: https://engineering.purdue.edu/CE/Academics/Graduate/Online