Carl E. and Jesse W. Menneken Annual Faculty Award for Excellence in Scientific Research Honorees

This award is presented annually to an NPS faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding effort and achievement in research in science or engineering. The award recognizes meritorious research having identifiable impact on Navy or other Department of Defense technology. First presented in 1975 under the present name in order to honor the memory of Distinguished Professor Carl E. Menneken, Dean of Research. 

In 2015, NPS Dean of Research Jeff Paduan, announced the creation of two Menneken Awards, one for a senior faculty member that has exhibited ‘significant and sustained contributions’ and another for a more junior faculty member for ‘highly meritorious research'.

Read more about the award in NPS archive: Calhoun

 

Year SENIOR FACULTY
Significant and Sustained Contribution		     Department   JUNIOR FACULTY
Highly Meritorious Research		    Department
2025 Andy Hernandez Systems Engineering   Britta Hale Computer Sciences
2024 Frank Giraldo Applied Mathematics   Douglas Van Bossuyt Systems Engineering
2023 Giovanna Orit Electrical and Computer Engineering   Emre Gunduz Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2022 Timour Radko Oceanography   Paul Lester Organizational Sciences Academic Group
2021 Marcello Romano Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   Di Zhang Electrical and Computer Engineering
2020 Wieslaw Maslowski & Qing Wang Oceanography & Meteorology   Mike Atkinson Operations Research
2019 Susan Sanchez & Thomas Lucas Operations Research   Jeremy Kozdon Applied Mathematics
2018 Brij N. Agrawal Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   Bradley Jay Strawser Defense Analysis
2017 Young Kwon Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   Eric Hendricks Meteorology
2016 Peter Denning & Gerald G. Brown Computer Sciences & Operations Research   Lucas Wilcox Applied Mathematics
2015 Clay Moltz National Security Affairs   Nicholas Drew & Timothy Chung Organizations and Management & Systems Engineering
2014 Erik Dahl; Yu-Chu Shen; David Alderson; Claudia Luhrs National Security Affairs; Manpower and Economics; Operations Research; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering      
2013 Joseph P. Hooper Physics      
2012 Luke Brewer Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering      
2011 Hong Zhou Applied Mathematics      
2010 Johannes O. Royset Operations Research      
2009 Jamie MacMahan Oceanography      
2008 Christopher M. Brophy Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering      
2007 Frank Giraldo Applied Mathematics      
2006 Marcello Romano Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering      
2005 John McEachen Electrical and Computer Engineering      
2004 Qing Wang Meteorology      
2003 Wei Kang Applied Mathematics      
2002 Douglas J. Fouts Electrical and Computer Engineering      
2001 Michael Ross Aeronautics and Astronautics      
2000 Mark E. Nissen Systems Management      
1999 Isaac I. Kaminer Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering      
1998 Hemant K. Bhargava Systems Management      
1997 Indranath Dutta Mechanical Engineering      
1996 Thomas H.C. Herbers Oceanography      
1995 Young Kwon Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering      
1994 Michael P. Bailey Operations Research      
1993 James H. Miller Electrical and Computer Engineering      
1992 Ching-Sang Chiu Oceanography      
1991 William Gragg Mathematics   Lu Qi Computer Sciences
1990 Phillip Ligrani Mechanical Engineering      
1989 Phillip Durkee Meteorology      
1988 Steven Garret Physics      
1987 John Powers Electrical and Computer Engineering      
1986 Don E. Harrison Physics      
1985 Russell Elsberry Meteorology      
1984 Donald P. Gaver, Jr. Operations Research      
1983 Paul Marto Mechanical Engineering      
1982 Gerald G. Brown Operations Research      
1981 Sheldon R. Tieszen / Kenneth L. Davidson Meteorology      
1980 Chih-Pei Chang Meteorology      
1979 John Ohlson Electrical Engineering      
1978 Donald Layton Aeronautics      
1977 Sydney R. Parker Electrical Engineering      
1976 Allen Fuhs Mechanical Engineering      
1975 Fred Buskirk Physics and Chemistry      
1974 Alfred Cooper Physics   Fred Schwirzke Physics
1973 Daniel Collins Aeronautics      
1972 Herman Medwin Physics      
1971 Tukrgut Sarpkaya Mechanical Engineering      
1970 William Tolles Material Science and Chemistry      
1969 Eugene Haderlie Oceanography      
1968 William Reese Physics      
1967 Norman Oleson Physics      
1966 John Brock Mechanical Engineering      
1965 Frank Faulkner Mathematics      
1964 George Thaler Electrical Engineering      
1963 Eugene Crittenden Physics