PCE News
PCE Students Honored at Year-End Celebration
April 14, 2026
A total of 9 Padnos College of Engineering students were honored at
the 2026 Student Awards Convocation. In addition to Annika
Mattson, who received the Glenn A. Niemeyer Award which
recognizes excellence in both the classroom and extra-curricular
activities, PCE also had eight honorees in the
Excellence-In-A-Discipline category, which celebrate one student from
each undergraduate and graduate discipline. Faculty from each
department select the recipient based upon an earned minimum number of
credit hours at an exceptional grade point average, along with other
criteria identified by each unit as appropriate for use in determining
academic excellence in their program. The PCE students who won these
awards were:
Maya Rhodes, Biomedical Engineering
Lucas Williams, Computer
Engineering
Laura Goenner, Electrical Engineering
Cody Lampen,
Interdisciplinary Engineering
Rosanna Damuth, Mechanical
Engineering
Lexi Schliewe, Occupational Safety and Health
Management
Leah Thomason, Product Design and Manufacturing
Engineering
Madelyn Burrell, Engineering, M.S.E.