| 1984 |
Denise J. Noonan, Ph.D. NE |
Dr. J. L. Russell (Health Physics) * |
| 1987 | Mardi C. Hastings, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Peter H. Rogers (Acoustics & Dynamics) |
| 1991 | Eileen E. Chant, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Sheldon M. Jeter (Heat Transfer) |
| 1992 | PingPing Ma, Ph.D. ME | Dr. David N. Ku (Bioengineering) |
| Barbara McCord, Ph.D. ME | Dr. David N. Ku (Bioengineering) |
| Pamela Norris, Ph.D. ME | Dr. William J. Wepfer (Heat Transfer) |
| Gabriella Pautasso, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Weston M. Stacey (Fusion) |
| 1993 | Sandra Burch, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Kimberlee Kearfott (Health Physics) |
| Susan E. Carlson Skalak, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jonathan S. Colton (Manufacturing) |
| 1994 | Sunita Kamboj, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Bernd Kahn (Health Physics) |
| Kathleen Klee Spillane, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Ratib Karam (Health Physics) |
| Weimen Ren, Ph.D. NE | Drs. S. I. Abdel-Khalik &
S. M. Ghiaasiaan (Heat Transfer) |
| Gabriella Turek, Ph.D. ME | Drs. Peter H. Rogers & Aldo A. Ferri (Acoustics & Dynamics) |
| 1995 | Karen Lynn Jones Caywood, Ph.D. NE | Drs. Nolan E. Hertel & Rodney Ice (Health Physics) |
| Wei Chen, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Farrokh Mistree (CAE & Design) |
| Ziba Derafshi, Ph.D. ME | Dr. G. Paul Neitzel (Fluid Mechanics) |
| Sheila C. Palmer, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Samuel V. Shelton (Heat Transfer) |
| Carmen Sidbury, Ph.D. ME | Drs. Carolyn Meyers & Prateen V. Desai (Fluid Mechanics) |
| 1996 | Mary Noelle Currey, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Kenneth A. Cunefare (Acoustics & Dynamics) |
| Deborah L. Kilpatrick, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Raymond P. Vito (Bioengineering) |
| Elizabeth Lutostansky, Ph.D. ME | Dr. David N. Ku (Bioengineering) |
| Hannah E. Mitchell, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Ratib Karam (Nuclear Engineering) |
| John M. Parker, Ph.D. ME | Drs. Holly Rushmeier & Kok-Meng Lee (Automation & Mechatronics) |
| Yuan Chen Severtson, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Cyrus Aidun (Fluid Mechanics) |
| Ming Yang, Ph.D. ME | Drs. Jacek Jarzynski & Yves H. Berthelot (Acoustics & Dynamics) |
| 1997 | Jeri L. Anderson, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Bernd Kahn (Health Physics) |
| M. Patricia Dodd Brackin, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jonathan S. Colton (Manufacturing) |
| Linda Greer Braddon, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Robert M. Nerem (Bioengineering) |
| Jean E. Davis, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jianmin Qu (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Lisa A. Dixon, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jonathan S. Colton (Manufacturing) |
| Djay M. Jalandoni, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Chris Wang (Health Physics) |
| Deborah Kenney, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Peter H. Rogers (Acoustics & Dynamics) |
| Mary E. Napolitano, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Nolan E. Hertel (Health Physics) |
| Signa Varner, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Robert M. Nerem (Bioengineering) |
| 1998 | Sophie Biz, Ph.D. ME | Drs. William J. Wepfer and Mark White (ChE) (Heat Transfer) |
| Sandra Hopko, Ph.D. ME Advisor: | Dr. I. Charles Ume (Automation & Mechatronics) |
| Patricia L. Lee, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Bernd Kahn (Health Physics) |
| Yibin Xu, Ph.D ME | Dr. Jianmin Qu (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Min Zou, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Itzhak Green (Tribology) |
| 1999 | Valerie Poindexter Bennett, Ph.D. ME | Dr. David L. McDowell (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Winncy Du, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Stephen L. Dickerson (Manufacturing) |
| Adele Benning Wright, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Cheng Zhu (Bioengineering) |
| 2000 | Staci Ann Davis, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Ari Glezer (Fluid Mechanics) |
| Stacey Dixon, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Raymond P. Vito (Bioengineering) |
| Susan Harp, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Richard F. Salant (Tribology) |
| Xiaoling He, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Robert E. Fulton (CAE & Design) |
| Ashley James, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Marc K. Smith (Fluid Mechanics) |
| Laura Schaefer, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Samuel V. Shelton (Heat Transfer) |
| Sally Sellers, Ph.D. ME | Dr. William Z. Black (Heat Transfer) |
| 2001 | Ji Eun Park. Ph.D. ME | Dr. Iwona M. Jasiuk (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Patricia Willice Selcher, Ph.D. ME | Dr. W. Steven Johnson (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Michelle Sutton Ferenci, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Nolan E. Hertel (Nuclear Engineering) |
| Xuemei Wu, Ph.D. ME | Dr. S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan (Heat Transfer) |
| Claudia Zettner, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Minami Yoda (Fluid Mechanics) |
| Nicole (Zirkelback) Martin, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jerry H. Ginsberg (Acoustics & Dynamics) |
| 2002 | Lisa Chiang, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Chris Wang (Health Physics) |
| Dawn Foley Loper, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Nader Sadegh (Automation & Mechatronics) |
| Lynnanne George, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Wayne Book (Automation & Mechatronics) |
| Heather Jean Gepford, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Nolan E. Hertel (Nuclear Engineering) |
| Germina Ilas, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Farzad Rahnema (Nuclear Engineering) |
| Stephanie Kladakis, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Robert Nerem (Bioengineering) |
| Isabela Diane Vrinceanu, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Steven Danyluk (Manufacturing) |
| 2003 | Rebeccah Covert, Ph.D. ME | Dr. David Ku (Bioengineering) |
| Mingxuan Jiang, Ph.D. ME | Dr. W. J. Lackey (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Lisa Dawn Mauck, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Christopher Lynch (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Charlotte Cody Song, Ph.D. ME | Drs. Cyrus Aiden & Marc Smith (Fluid Mechanics) |
| Dana Swalla, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Richard Neu (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Susan Stewart White, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Samuel V. Shelton (Heat Transfer) |
| Qi Zhu, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Suresh Sitaraman (CAE & Design) |
| 2004 | Karen Corzine Kelley, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Nolan Hertel (Nuclear Engineering) |
| Jennifer Muncy, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Daniel Baldwin (Manufacturing) |
| Carolyn Conner Seepersad, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Farrokh Mistree (CAE & Design) |
| Valerie Belcher Sitterle, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Marc E. Levenston (Bioengineering) |
| Sai Zeng, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Suresh K. Sitaraman (CAE & Design) |
| Jie Zheng, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jeffrey L. Streator (Tribology) |
| 2005 | Erika Biediger, Ph.D. ME | Dr. William Singhose (Automation and Mechatronics) |
| Jian Ding, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Wenjing Ye (MEMS) |
| Tracie Durbin, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Paul Neitzel (Fluid Mechanics) |
| Stacy Imler, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Marc Levenston, (Bioengineering) |
| Andrea Lay, Ph.D. BioE | Dr. Marc Levenston (Bioengineering) |
| Janna Mouw, Ph.D. BioE | Dr. Marc Levenston (Bioengineering) |
| Jenelle Piepmeier, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Harvey Lipkin (Automation & Mechatronics) |
| Michelle Pitts, Ph.D. NE | Dr. Farzad Rahnema (Health Physics) |
| Anita Turner, Ph.D. NE | Drs. Show Fong & Bernd Kahn (Health Physics) |
| Christine Valle, Ph.D. ME | Drs. J. Qu and L. J. Jacobs (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Jing Ying Zhang, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Steven Liang (Manufacturing) |
| 2006 | Haiyan Deng, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Shreyes Melkote (Manufacturing) |
| Desire Jangha, Ph.D. NE | Dr. C. K. Wang (Health Physics) |
| Jian Mi, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jack Lackey (Mechanics of Materials) |
| Kristin E. Michael, Ph.D. BioE | Dr. Andrés García (Bioengineering) |
| Catherine Reyes, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Andrés García (Bioengineering) |
| Dawei Shen, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Richard Salant (Tribology) |
| Shannon Stott, Ph.D. ME | Dr. Jens Karlsson (Bioengineering) |
| Laam Angela Tse, Ph.D. ME | Dr. David Rosen (CAE & Design) |
| Annica Wayman, Ph.D. ME | Drs. Cheng Zhu and Don Giddens (Bioengineering) |
| Xin Zhang, Ph.D. NE | Dr. C. K. Wang (Nuclear Engineering) |
| 2007 |
Rhima M. Coleman, Ph.D. ME |
Dr. Robert Guldberg (Bioengineering) |
| Karen Hallow, Ph.D. ME |
Dr. Raymond Vito (Bioengineering) |
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Celine Lascar, Ph.D. ME |
Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik (Heat Transfer) |
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Margaret Lowder, Ph.D. BioE |
Dr. Raymond Vito (Bioengineering) |
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Ashley W. Palmer, Ph.D. ME |
Dr. Marc Levenston (Bioengineering) |
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Megan Oest, Ph.D. BioE |
Dr. Robert Guldberg (Bioengineering) |
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Jie Yang, Ph.D. ME |
Dr. Peter Rogers (Acoustics and Dynamics) |
| 2008 |
JoSette Broiles, Ph.D. BioE |
Dr. Robert Nerem (Bioengineering) |
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Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, Ph.D. ME |
Dr. Paul Neitzel (Fluid Mechanics) |
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As of the spring 2008 semester, a total of 105 women (77 ME, 21 NE, 7 BioE) have earned a Ph.D. from the Woodruff School.
Note: All minority graduates listed herein were U.S. citizens or permanent residents at the time their degree was granted.
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