Several faculty were recognized at the College of Engineering's Annual Awards Banquet for their outstanding performance over the past year. The banquet was the concluding event during Engineers Week on campus, February 21-25.

Dr. Qilian Liang of Electrical Engineering received the College's Outstanding Young Faculty Award. The recipient of this year's award has demonstrated exceptional performance in teaching, research and professional activities. Since joining UTA a few years ago, Dr. Liang has received outstanding comments from his students and is consistently ranked above the departmental average in their evaluations of teaching performance. He received one of only 26 Young Investigator grants presented by the Office of Naval Research in 2003. Two hundred twenty people had submitted applications.