"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- Colin Powell
Professional Honors and Awards
Nigerian Professional Group - Trailblazer Award (2024)
Graduate Fellowships
Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Honorable Mention- 2021)
Rackham Merit Fellowship (2017)
GEM Fellowship (2017)
Grants Awarded
University of Michigan Office of Research (UMOR) Small Scale Research Grant (2019)
Graduate Honors and Awards
Intersectional Advocacy Award (2024)
In recognition of the individual’s and organization’s outstanding dedication to honoring and advocating for the intersectional nature of students’ many identities through involvement and activities.
Bouchet Honor Society (2024)
Named for the first African American doctoral recipient in the United States (Physics, Yale University, 1876), the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (Bouchet Society) recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. The Bouchet Society is a network of preeminent scholars who exemplify academic and personal excellence, foster environments of support and serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the academy. In the spirit of Bouchet’s commitment to these ideals, inductees into the honor society must demonstrate significant achievement in these five areas.
MLK Spirit Award for Mentoring and Inspiration (2024)
The MLK Spirit Award for Students recognizes North Campus students whose academics and/or community engagement exemplify the leadership and vision of Dr. King. Nominees may lead or inspire peers, faculty/staff, and the broader community to develop or utilize their talents to advance social justice.
Engineering Innovation Runner-Up in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition ($3000 prize)(2023)
The goal of Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition is to stimulate students to develop skills for effectively communicating their research in language appropriate for a non-specialist audience.
Willie Hobbs Moore Achievement Award (2022)
Awarded to individuals whose achievements in STEM (e.g. academics, research, discovery, practice, etc.) are particularly inspirational in light of the challenges or roadblocks they have faced in their pursuit of a STEM degree and/or career.
Robotics Outreach Ambassador (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
The title is given to those who have completed a certain amount of outreach work over the past academic year, and to a few standouts nominated by others. All of them exhibit enthusiastic outreach, a value of Michigan Robotics.
Undergraduate Honor Distinctions
The Knights of Saint Patrick is one of the highest honors given by the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. This honor is given to approximately 8-15 students each year to those who have demonstrated excellence in leadership and character. Read more here.
Chancellor Scholar
The Campus Honors Program (CHP) is an honors program designed to offer special challenges and opportunities to a small number of academically talented and highly motivated undergraduate students at the University of Illinois. Approximately 125 new students to the university can be admitted to CHP each year as first-year students.
Hoeft Technology and Management (T&M) Program
The T&M Program is an undergraduate program at the University of Illinois that is designed to bridge the gap between traditional engineering and business education by offering unique curriculum to a select group of highly qualified business and engineering students. Only approximately 50 sophomore engineering and business students are admitted to the program each year.
Pi Tau Sigma
Pi Tau Sigma is the Mechanical Engineering Honors Society. I was initiated into the society in the Fall of my junior year and went on to serve as the Sandcasting Chair and Trebuchet Chair during my senior year.
Undergraduate Awards
Janet Eakman Award for Excellence (2017)
This is an award given by the Hoeft Technology and Management Program to a female student within the program who has displayed “excellence” while in the program.
Mechanical Engineering Pi Tau Sigma MVP Award (2016)
This is an award given by the University of Illinois chapter of Pi Tau Sigma to a non-executive board member who has done “an extraordinary job at their position” and includes a monetary stipend.
Paul E. Parker Award (2016)
The Parker Scholarships are awarded based on merit to minority students enrolled in the College of Engineering.
H.L. Wakeland Undergraduate Leadership Award (2016)
Recognizes a junior or senior who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and maintained a minimum 3.0 grade-point average.
First Place in the International Business Plan Competition (IBPC) in Brazil (2016)
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Third Place in the IBPC in Hong Kong (2017)
The IBPC is a business plan competition which involves students from universities in Hong Kong, Brazil, USA, and Germany. The theme for the 2016 competition in Brazil was drone technology, and the theme for the 2017 competition in Hong Kong was health care technology for elders. Students were divided into 8 different teams which had at least one student from each of the four universities represented on each team. Students had 10 days to come up with a product or service that fit the theme and develop a full business plan. At the end of the competition, the teams presented their business plans to a group of judges consisting of company executives from the industry and academic professors.
Second Place in NSBE Region 4 Battle of the Engineers
This was a competition where chapters within NSBE Region 4 answered engineering-related questions to see which chapter would come out on top.