Distinguished Alumni

Recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award and Outstanding Young Alumni Award are recognized for professional distinction through outstanding leadership, contributions to the field of engineering and computing, creativity and entrepreneurship, as well as service to society, the professional community, and to the department, college, or university.

Award Winners

This award recognizes an individual who has made notable contributions to his or her profession, community and university.

Name		Award Year	Degree	Degree Year
John E. Swearingen	President of Standard Oil of Indiana	1988	Chemical	1938
Wilbur S. Smith	President of the Institute of Traffic Engineers and President and Chairman of the Eno Foundation for Transportation in Washington	1990	Electrical M.S. Engineering	1932 1933
Virgil C. Summer		1991	Mechanical	1968
Irwin Kahn	University of South Carolina Professor Civil Engineering	1991	Civil	1935
Edward L. Addison	Former CEO and Chairman of The Southern Company	1992	Electrical	1950
William H. "Bill" Best		1993	Mechanical	1958
Allan M. Quick	Chairman and CEO Thermal Engineering Corporation	1994	Electrical	1968
Benny T. Bootle, Jr.	AACA Judge and AACA President	1995	Mechanical	1953
H. Bard Allison, II	Executive Vice President and General Manager of Lockheed- Georgia	1996	Mechanical	1953
Andrew H. Card, Jr.	Chief of Staff for George W. Bush	1997	Civil	1971
Raphael C. Lee	Plastic Surgeon and Founder and Chariman of RenaCyte BioMolecular Technologies and Avocet Polymer Technologies	1998	Electrical	1971
Joseph H. Gibbons	University of South Carolina Professor, Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Dean, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs	1999	Chemical	1956
Larry E. Nunnery, Jr.	VP at Hammermill Glass	2000	Chemical	1971
Henry M. Rothberg	LATICRETE Founder and Chariman Emritus	2001	Chemical	1944
Robert L. Sumwalt, Jr.	President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer at Sumwalt Construction Company	2001	Civil	1949
M. Bert Storey	Division Engineer for E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company and as the Manager of the Construction Division of Jones and Fellers Architects and Engineers in Augusta	2002	Civil	1951
Thomas L. Gregory	Chairman of Gregory Electric Company, Inc.	2003	Electrical	1949
Hamilton Lott, Jr.	Nucor Corporation Executive Vice President of Fabricated Construction Products	2012	Civil	1972
Albert Kwong	President and Founder of PetroAsian Energy Limited	2013	Computer Science	1974
Casey J. Borowski	Board of Advisors for Magna Imperio Systems Corp and Owner and CEO of Camellia Chemical LLC.	2014	Chemical	1969
J. David Waugh	USC Dean Emeritus and Distiguished Professor Emritus in Civil and Environmental Engineering	2015	Civil	1954
William A. "Bill" Fox	Executive Vice-President, Nuclear at SNC-Lavalin and Former President of Fox Consolidated LLC	2016	Civil	1978
Barbara Rusinko	President, Nuclear, Security and Environmental at Bechtel Group Foundation	2017	Mechanical	1998
T. Wayne Vermullen	General Manager for Dominion Energy Carolina Gas Transmission	2019	Mechanical	1996
Ralph E. White	Professor, Chemical Engineering Westinghouse Distingushed Scientist at USC and Owner of R.E. White and Associates	2020	Chemical	1971
Gerardine G. Botte	Professor, Whitacre Department Chair in Sustainable Energy at Texas Tech University and Director of CASFER Research Center	2021	M.S. Chemical Ph.D. Chemical	1998 2000
Deepal Eliatamby	President and Owner of Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc.	2023	Civil M.S. Civil	1988 1989
Lewis Caswell	Owner and Chairman of W.O. Blackstone & Company, Inc	2024	Mechanical	1959

This award recognizes an individual who graduated within the last ten years and who shows the potential to make a positive impact professionally and serve as an example for other recent graduates.

Name		Award Year	Degree	Degree Year
E. Jay Alexander	V.P. and Alliance Manager for Fluor Daniel Chemicals, Plastics and Fibers; COO of Day and Zimmerman International; owner of Global Performance; President of Mustang Engineering Process and Industrial Business Unit	1997	Chemical	1979
Michael E. Anderer	Founder, Director and Venture Funding at Dermapen and Co-Founder at Seriously, Inc.	1998	Chemical	1985
Michael J. Margotta	Director of Sales and Marketing at EBSCO Industries, Inc	1999	Electrical	1983
David A. King	Center Director at NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center	2000	Mechanical	1983
Jeffrey F. McElroy	Director of Engineering for Intel Corporation	2001	Electrical M.S. Electrical	1986 1988
M. Scot Wingo	CEO of Spiffy and GP at Triangle Tweener Fund	2002	Computer Eng	1990
Deepal S. Eliatamby	President of Alliance Consulting Engineers, Inc.	2003	Civil M.S. Civil	1988 1989
Lauren J. Caldwell	SIS FEL Principal Specialist at aeSolutions	2012	Chemical	2006
Gopal Chakrabarti	Technology Leader at Marathon Petroleum Corporation	2013	Chemical	2007
Kari E. Morrison	Consultant, Business Outcomes Consulting, Advanced Services at Cisco	2014	Civil	2009
Kelvin D. Moore	Senior Process Engineer Indorama Ventures: Integrated Oxides and Derivatives	2015	Chemical	2006
Robert H. "Bobby" Scott	Electrical Design Engineer II at Harsco Rail	2015	Electrical	2010
Jeremy A. Greenberger	Senior Engineering Manager at VMWare, Inc.	2016	Computer Science	2014
Eric D. Hatch	Software Developer Boeing Company	2019	Computer Information Systems	2015
Jamie G. Barton	Dominion Energy Engineering	2020	Mechanical	2012
Olga I. Agafonova	Security Specialist University of South Carolina	2021	Computer Science	2015
Kallie Metzger	Manager of Accident Tolerant Fuels Technology for Westinghouse Electric Company	2023	M.E. Nuclear Ph.D. Nuclear	2013 2016
Colishia Dunbar	Technical Marketing Manager at Hubbell Power Systems	2024	Mechanical	2020