The annual Michigan State University College of Engineering Alumni Awards Banquet honored a third grade teacher from Midland, Michigan, and a group of eight distinguished alumni.
The 2016 Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award winner was Martin Hawley. The award is the highest honor presented to a graduate by the college. It recognizes professional accomplishment, volunteer service and distinguished service to the college and the engineering profession.
Hawley is a professor and recent past chairperson of the MSU Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He is currently senior associate to the dean of engineering and director of the MSU Composite Vehicle Research Center.
He teaches, directs research, publishes and consults with industry and government in the areas of chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, enzyme separations, chemical reactor design, process design, materials processing, applied mathematics, computer simulation, economics and optimization.
Hawley has taught the senior capstone process design courses at MSU for more than 40 years. The success of his students is shown by 46 MSU students receiving national contest awards in the annual AIChE Student Contest Problem.
He holds six patents and has published more than 200 articles and books. Of his 22 graduating Ph.D. students, five are noted faculty members at various universities.
Hawley also offered the keynote address at the College of Engineering Commencement services.
Read more about the accomplishments of this year’s distinguished winners.