Michael S. Hughes Award in Software Engineering
Michael Hughes earned his BS in 1989 in computer science at the University of Illinois. An expert in network security, he is a software development manager for McAfee, the anti-virus unit of Network Associates. He established the Hughes Award for Software Engineering to encourage and reward achievement in software engineering. Until 2018, the award was given to CS undergraduate members of the best project completed in the software engineering sequence, CS 428.
Past Winners
| 2018 | Chartr Alexander Chang Christian Cygnus Pawel Galusza Gabriel Hayat Brian Kurek Michael Rush Shin Tangiuchi Gian-Marco Valentino |
| 2017 | ExpOCR Lanxiao Bai Eric Barron Daniel Cummins Mihika Dave Anthony Huang Brianna Ifft Vimal Patel |
| 2016 | Canvas Graph Creator: Nicholas Kelly Austin Kramer Nicholas Lu David Shechtman Miles Teh Matthew Yang Allen Yao |
| 2015 | FreeJournal: Brian Dahmen Philip Daian Andrew Kowalski Walker Henderson Daniel Zebroski Wenxue Zhang |
| 2014 | FitMaster: Mengqi Gu Pengyu Ren James Spotanski Ke Yang |
| 2013 | SnapMeds: Joel Dodge Robert Heidkamp Caleb Johnson Onur Karaman Matthew Omori Zachary Wand Thomas Zhang Terence Zhao |
| 2012 | Infinite City: Alexander Avang Alex Decker Daniel Rasmussen Rohit Garg Matthew Berry Edie Liao Paulo Llanes George Morrison |
| 2011 | Musical Notepad: Yanhang Guo Justin Baird Douglas Ferdinand Basel Qumsiyeh Marcin Zarycki Ryan Benton |
| 2010 | Conferenceware: Eric Dyoniziak Daniel Freedman Stoyan Gaydarov Simo Leone David Paola Brian Sawicki Nicholas Tenczar James Wordelman |
| 2009 | Sphere: Alexei Andreev Kevin Berg Joseph DiGiovanna Marc Holden Robert Lach Michael So Paul Taraszka |