Year

Recipient

School

 2005 

 Karla Callahan (Inaugural Award)

UMR

 2006

 Seamus Michael McGovern

 2007

 Elizabeth Cudney

 Jennifer Farris

Missouri S&T

Texas Tech

 2008

 Nuri Mehmet Gulden

University of Pittsburgh

 2009

 Marcus Bonsai

Texas Tech

 2010

 Wayne A. Rodin

Texas Tech

 2011

 Ileana Glover

Virginia Tech

 2012

 Brian K. Smith (Heather Nachtmann, Advisor)

University of Arkansas

 2013

 Dr. Hengyang Chen (Dr. Rowen Qin, Advisor)

Missouri S&T

 2014

 Dr. Brian Galli

Old Dominion University

 2015

 Rufaidah AlMaian (Kim LaScola Needy, Advisor) 

 Western Michigan University 

 2016

 Nolen Akerman (Larry Mallak, Advisor)

University of Arkansas

 2017

 Michael Bromley (Mario Beruvides, Advisor)

Texas Tech

 2018

 Dr. Chamila Kalpani Dissanayake

Texas Tech