Aerospace Engineering Outstanding Leadership Award
2025 Yahya Ismail, President, ΣΓΤ AE Honors Society Student Chapter
Matvey Zubkov, VP for off-campus outreach (middle school, high
school, community college), ΣΓΤ AE Honors Society Student Chapter
Adrian Garcia, VP for on-campus outreach (tutoring, AE events), ΣΓΤ
AE Honors Society Student Chapter
Igor Eramov for organizing / coordinating the Thermal Fluids Analysis
Workshop on our campus in collaboration w. NASA
Tyler Yuen, President AIAA Student Chapter
Miguel Yanez for his extraordinary leadership skills bringing his team
together during very challenging times approaching and participating
in the AIAA DBF competition
2024 Yahya Ismail & Alex Watson for their leadership on the Large Solar
Array for CubeSat project +
Volodymyr Zhukov & Rae Chauvaux for their leadership on the
Micrometeorite Collector project
2023 Svitlana Kuklenko for her leadership as Chair of the SJSU AIAA
Student Chapter
2022 Aysha Rehman for her leadership in the CubeCube project +
Ben Hopkins for his leadership in the pursuit of microsat flight
opportunities
2021 Christian Espinoza for his leadership in the BioSat Program
2020 Fernando Ferreira for his leadership as AIAA Chapter President
(introduced industry trips & the AE job fair) +
Nataliya Grigoryan – for her leadership as ΣΓΤ Chapter President
during the pandemic
Jordan Pollard for his leadership in the design and testing of the
aerospike engine
2019 Alexis Thoeny & Kayla Parcero
2015 Brian Ha
2014 Brian Ha & Jay Westerwelle
2013 Jose Mojica, Jon Benson & Nicholas Hoppins
2012 Thomas Zumsteg & Paul Woodrow
2011 Aaron Cohen
2010 Ali Guarneros-Luna
2009 Dan Woodman
2008 Kenny Boronowski
2007 Joel Tambaoan & Hamad Asghar