Sibel Özelçi Best Senior Design Project Award: This award is for the project with best overall qualities, including its design, innovativeness, user interface, documentation, and presentation.

Innovation Award: This award is for the project that is most innovative.

Data Science Award: This award is for the project that analyzes data using the state-of-art data science approaches.

Wide Impact Award: This award is for the project that reaches the widest audience.

Social Impact Award: This award is for the project that excels in serving the social needs of the society.

User Experience Award: This award is for the project that provides a great use experience.

Mobile Award: This award is for the best mobile application project.

Demonstration Award: This award is for the best demonstration.

Marketability Award: This award is for the project that has the most potential for commercialization.

Any senior (who is listed as a 4th year student in STARS) is eligible for the personal awards.

Hacker Award: This award is given to the student who is best known for exceptional coding skills, showing playful cleverness in code, and solving coding problems in surprising and impressive ways.

Team Worker Award: This award is given to the student who is the best overall teammate, possessing great organization and coordination skills, as well as effectiveness in getting the job done technically.

Entrepreneur Award: This award is given to the student who has a good business vision, high potential for developing innovative technologies, and a promising path to lead a start-up company.

Theorist Award: This award is given to the student who is great at theory, having the ability to model and formalize a problem and apply analytical techniques to solve it.

Visual Designer Award: This award is given to the student with the highest ability to produce nice looking, smooth, user-friendly, and state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces.

Gamer Award: This award is given to the student who is best known for showing great passion for computer games, playing computer games in spare time to cool off, sometimes even excessively.

Bookworm Award: This award is given to the student who is an avid reader and shows the greatest interest in books.

Art Buff Award: This award is given to the student who has the greatest interest in works of art, as a practitioner or as a connoisseur.

Sportsperson Award: This award is given to the student who has the greatest interest in performing sport activities.

Night Owl Award: This award is given to the student who is most active at night, pulling off all-nighters to catch up with deadlines.

Humorist Award: This award is given to the student who has the most witty and fun sense of humor.

Early Adopter Award: This award is given to the student who likes to try new technologies first.

Traveler Award: This award is given to the student who likes to travel a lot and visit new places.

Musician Award: This award is given to the student who has the greatest interest in playing musical instruments and/or singing.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant awards are given based on the votes cast by the students and this award is given to the best teaching assistants.