Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy
Honors and Awards
- 2022 – Faculty Award for Excellence in Service, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU
- 2021 – Most Inspiring Professor Award, Engineering College Council, CSU.
- 2020 – CSU Board of Governors Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
- 2019 – George T. Abell Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
- 2018 – Faculty Award for Excellence in Service, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU
- 2017 – Meroney Family Award for Excellence in Teaching in Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU
- 2017 – Invited participant, 5th Arab-American Frontiers Symposium, National Academies of Science, Engr. & Med.
- 2017 – Monfort Professor Lecture, Colorado State University.
- 2017 – Invited speaker, 2017 Environmental & Water Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2016 – Invited speaker, 69th Annual meeting, Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society
- 2016 – Invited speaker, 2016 Environmental & Water Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2016 – UPS Foundation Visiting Professor, Stanford University
- 2015 – Invited speaker, Fundamental Aspects of Geophysical Turbulence Workshop, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- 2015 – Monfort Professor, Colorado State University
- 2015 – George T. Abell Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award , Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
- 2014 – Frenkiel Award for Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
- 2014 – Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, CSU
- 2014 – Invited participant, Indo-American Frontiers of Eng. Symposium, National Academy Engineering
- 2013 – Invited to Attend NAE”s 2013 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering
- 2012 – CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
- 2012 – Outstanding Faculty Performance, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 2012 – Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research
- 2011 – Best Teacher Award, CSU’s Alumni Association and the Student Alumni Connection
- 2011 – Yevjevich Faculty Scholarship, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Vujica Yevjevich Memorial Fund.
- 2010 – Lorenz G. Straub Award for the most meritorious PhD dissertation in hydraulic engineering, St. Anthony’s Falls Lab, University of Minnesota
- 2010 – Outstanding Faculty Performance, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 2010 – Selected as the Borland Professor (Chair) of Hydraulics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
- 2009 – ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2006 – Offshore Mechanics Scholarship for outstanding achievement at Stanford University, International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)
- 2006 – Best Speaker Award, Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposium (PODS IV)
- 2005 – Best Speaker Award – Engineering and Applied Mathematics Symposium, SIAM – Stanford Student Chapter
- 2005 – Harvey Fellow, Mustard Seed Foundation
- 2002 – S2A3 Medal for the most outstanding MS thesis, South African Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2000 – Merit medal for the top graduating engineering student, Engineering Council of South Africa
- 2000 – Prize for the best student in fluid mechanics, Water Institute of Southern Africa
- 2000 – Prize for best student in structural engineering, South African Institution of Civil Engineers and Joint Institution of Structural Engineering (UK)
- 2000 – J R Daymond Prize for the highest academic merit in fluid mechanics, University of Natal
- 2000 – K Knight Prize for the highest academic merit in foundation engineering, University of Natal
- 2000 – HA Smith Prize for the highest academic merit in transport, University of Natal
- 2000 – Dr. Townley William scholarship for the best final year undergraduate student, University of Natal
- 2000 – M K Rosenbach Scholarship for outstanding academic merit, University of Natal
- 2000 – Walter Morgan Thomas Prize for the best final year student in civil engineering, University of Natal
- 2000 – Dissertation Prize for the best final year research dissertation., University of Natal
- 2000 – Concrete Society Prize for a meritorious design project involving concrete, University of Natal
- 1999 – Prestige Scholarship, University of Natal
- 1999 – LTA prize for the most outstanding student in third year in the civil engineering, University of Natal
- 1998 – Prestige Scholarship, University of Natal