Award Winners

Expand allDistinguished Alumni Award

This award recognizes an individual who has made notable contributions to his or her profession, community and university.

	Name		Award Year	Degree	Degree Year
	John E. Swearingen	President of Standard Oil (Indiana), namesake Swearingen Engineering Center	1988	Chemical	1938
	Wilbur S. Smith	President of the Institute of Traffic Engineers and President and Chairman of the Eno Foundation for Transportation in Washington	1990	Electrical M.S. Engineering	1932 1933
	Virgil C. Summer	Chairman and CEO of South Carolina Electric & Gas Company	1991	Mechanical	1968
	Irwin Kahn	University of South Carolina Professor Civil Engineering	1991	Civil	1935
	Edward L. Addison	Former CEO and Chairman of The Southern Company	1992	Electrical	1950
	William H. "Bill"  Best	Founder of Thermal Engineering Corporation	1993	Mechanical	1958
	Allan M. Quick	Senior Vice President at NCR Corporation	1994	Electrical	1968
	Benny T. Bootle, Jr.	AACA Judge and AACA President	1995	Mechanical	1953
	H. Bard Allison, II	Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lockheed- Georgia	1996	Mechanical	1953
	Andrew H. Card, Jr.	Second longest tenured White House Chief of Staff, served in senior government roles under three U.S. Presidents.	1997	Civil	1971
	Raphael C. Lee	American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, biomedical engineer and inventor. The Paul and Allene Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago and Director of Renacyte BioMolecular Technologies, Inc.	1998	Electrical	1971
	Joseph H. Gibbons	University of South Carolina Professor, Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Dean, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs	1999	Chemical	1956
	Larry E. Nunnery, Jr.	Chairman and CEO of Bulk Molding Compounds, Inc.	2000	Chemical	1971
	Henry M. Rothberg	LATICRETE Founder and Chairman	2001	Chemical	1944
	Robert L. Sumwalt, Jr.	President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer at Sumwalt Construction Company	2001	Civil	1949
	M. Bert Storey	Founder of Bert Storey Development Corporation	2002	Civil	1951
	Thomas L. Gregory	Chairman of Gregory Electric Company, Inc.	2003	Electrical	1949
	Hamilton Lott, Jr.	Nucor Corporation Executive Vice President of Fabricated Construction Products	2012	Civil	1972
	Albert Kwong	President and Founder of PetroAsian Energy Limited	2013	Computer Science	1974
	Casey J. Borowski	Board of Advisors for Magna Imperio Systems Corp and Owner and CEO of Camellia Chemical LLC.	2014	Chemical	1969
	J. David Waugh	USC Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Civil and Environmental Engineering	2015	Civil	1954
	William A. "Bill" Fox	Nuclear Industry Executive: SNC-Lavalin; BMX Technologies, Inc.; The Shaw Group; AREVA NP, Inc.; SGT, LLC; Duke Energy Corporation	2016	Civil	1978
	Barbara Rusinko	President, Nuclear, Security and Environmental at Bechtel Group Foundation	2017	Mechanical	1998
	T. Wayne Vermullen	General Manager for Dominion Energy Carolina Gas Transmission	2019	Mechanical	1996
	Ralph E. White	Professor, Chemical Engineering Westinghouse Distinguished Scientist at USC and Owner of R.E. White and Associates	2020	Chemical	1971
	Gerardine G. Botte	Founder and Director, CASFER an NSF Engineering Research Center Professor and Whitacre Endowed Chair in Sustainable Energy Founder and Director, Institute for Sustainability and Circular Economy	2021	M.S. Chemical Ph.D. Chemical	1998 2000
	Deepal Eliatamby	President and Founder of Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc.	2023	Civil M.S. Civil	1988 1989
	Lewis Caswell	Chairman of W.O. Blackstone & Company, Inc.	2024	Mechanical	1959

Outstanding Young Alumni Award

This award recognizes an individual who graduated within the last ten years and who shows the potential to make a positive impact professionally and serve as an example for other recent graduates. 

	Name		Award Year	Degree	Degree Year
	E. Jay Alexander	V.P. and Alliance Manager for Fluor Daniel Chemicals, Plastics and Fibers; COO of Day and Zimmerman International; owner of Global Performance; President of Mustang Engineering Process and Industrial Business Unit	1997	Chemical	1979
	Michael E. Anderer	Founder, Director and Venture Funding at Dermapen and Co-Founder at Seriously, Inc.	1998	Chemical	1985
	Michael J. Margotta	Director of Sales and Marketing at EBSCO Industries, Inc	1999	Electrical	1983
	David A. King	Center Director at NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center	2000	Mechanical	1983
	Jeffrey F. McElroy	Director of Engineering for Intel Corporation	2001	Electrical M.S. Electrical	1986 1988
	M. Scot Wingo	CEO of Spiffy and GP at Triangle Tweener Fund	2002	Computer Eng	1990
	Deepal S. Eliatamby	President and Founder of Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc.	2003	Civil M.S. Civil	1988 1989
	Lauren J. Caldwell	SIS FEL Principal Specialist at aeSolutions	2012	Chemical	2006
	Gopal Chakrabarti	Technology Leader at Marathon Petroleum Corporation	2013	Chemical	2007
	Kari E. Morrison	Consultant, Business Outcomes Consulting, Advanced Services at Cisco	2014	Civil	2009
	Kelvin D. Moore	Senior Process Engineer Indorama Ventures: Integrated Oxides and Derivatives	2015	Chemical	2006
	Robert H. "Bobby" Scott	Electrical Design Engineer II at Harsco Rail	2015	Electrical	2010
	Jeremy A. Greenberger	Senior Engineering Manager at VMWare, Inc.	2016	Computer Science	2014
	Eric D. Hatch	The Boeing Company	2019	Computer Information Systems	2015
	Jamie G. Barton	Dominion Energy Engineering	2020	Mechanical	2012
	Olga I. Agafonova	Security Specialist  University of South Carolina	2021	Computer Science	2015
	Kallie Metzger	Director, eVinci Fuel at Westinghouse Electric Company	2023	M.E. Nuclear Ph.D. Nuclear	2013 2016
	Colishia Dunbar	Technical Marketing Manager at Hubbell Power Systems	2024	Mechanical	2020

 

If you would like to nominate a Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing alum for an award, please email alumni@cec.sc.edu with a brief overview of their accomplishments and impact on their profession, community, and USC.

Awards are presented each spring at the Gibbons Legacy Society Dinner. To be considered for the spring awards ceremony, nominations must be submitted by November 1st annually.