American University of Beirut

Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture


  • Abdallah Darwiche Endowed Award

Conferred on a group of students who submit the best final year project in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MSFEA.

  • Abdul Hadi Debs Endowed Award for Academic Excellence

Awarded to a graduating student who has an outstanding academic record. 

  • Cesar P. Moukarzel Award for Urban Innovation and Sustainability

Awarded to encourage participants to present projects that would enable cities in Lebanon to be more livable, welcoming, sustaining people's needs and presenting a better quality of life in the long run.

  • Dr. Robert Saliba Award for Excellence in Urban Design and Research

Established in 2024 to honor Dr. Robert Saliba, who was a professor in the Department of Architecture and Design at AUB who focused on Beirut's historic formation and postwar reconstruction. This award established by his family is presented every year to students for excellence in thesis work done in the urban design graduate program or in architecture, on a topic that is focused on Beirut and is central to Professor Saliba's research such as modern heritage, infrastructural breaks, or reconstruction.​

  • Farouk W. Agha Endowed Engineering Excellence Award

Awarded to a graduating student with a degree in mechanical or civil engineering with the highest average during her/his period of study at AUB.​

  • Fawzi W. Azar Award

Awarded annually to one or more fifth-year student(s) in the architecture program based on a project they present in their fourth year that is deemed best by a special jury.

  • George R. Rais Endowed Architecture Awards

Awarded to the top three third-year architecture students.

  • Ghazi and Maya Nourallah Endowed Innovation Award

Awarded to challenge ECE students to identify real-world problems and create innovative, cutting-edge solutions as part of their final-year projects. The award celebrates academic excellence and promotes a spirit of innovation and practical problem-solving among future engineers and computer scientists.

  • Hayat Salam Liebich Travel Award in Islamic Architecture

Awarded as a travel grant to a student in his fourth or fifth year or to a graduate student majoring in architecture, to enable research in Islamic architecture.​

  • Mohamad Ali and Fathie Chahine Safieddine Endowed Award for Academic Excellence​

Awarded to a graduating student who has a high academic record and good character as attested to by her/his professors at MSFEA.

  • Narine Bolghourjian Exemplary Engagement Endowed Award

Awarded to an undergraduate student who displays leadership and character and contributes to the AUB community.

  • Nehme Moujaess Endowed Award in Landscape Architecture

Awarded to landscape architecture students whose final-year project is selected as the most deserving.

  • Nicolas and Faride Moujaes Student Award in Engineering

Awarded to graduating student/students who present the most innovative final-year project.

  • Resource Group Entrepreneurship Award

Awarded to students for the best project in cybersecurity and for the best project in privacy.

  • ​Youssef M. Salam Civil Engineering Excellence Award

Awarded to a graduating student with a degree in civil engineering who earned the highest average during her/his period of study at AUB.​

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