2025 Commencement
Spring 2025: Cheers to the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Grads!
Graduates and their families are invited to celebrate at a Commencement Reception on Friday, May 16 - more detailed information to come. We will be in a tent on Norris lawn, close to Patton Hall. Light refreshments will be served, and the department will be announcing the Excellence in Design of Aerospace and Ocean Vehicles and Systems awards, including Prizes for Air, Ocean, Space and Launch Vehicle Design.
Celebrate our Hokie graduates all month long! Head over to the department social channels, where we will be sharing student photos and post-graduate plans.
Class of 2025: Outstanding Senior
Jacob Davis has been named the 2025 Outstanding Senior for aerospace and ocean engineering.
2025 Senior Superlatives
The Craig Woolsey Award: Most likely to be in the gym -
The Todd Lowe Award: Most likely to remain at Virginia Tech forever -
The Clutch Award: Teammate who saved the day -
The Beamer Award: Most likely to be in North End Zone next football season -
The Elon Musk Twitter Award: Most likely to be the class clown -
The Overbooked Award: Most likely to be in two meetings at once -
The Stealth Bomber Award: Least likely to be seen in person -
The Hiring Manager Award: Most likely to Rep the organization that hired them -
The Ashton Kutcher Award: Least likely to use their engineering degree -
The Eric Paterson Award: Most Likely to be Eating Food in the ASDI -
The Crawler Award: Most likely to be downtown -
The Usain Bolt Award: Most likely to ask for homework help ten minutes before it’s due -
The William Devenport Award: Best Mustache -
The Insomniac Award: Most likely to never sleep -
15. The Kardashian Award: Most likely to have a reality TV show -
The Breakfast Club Award: Most likely to be asleep in class -
The Warfighter Award: Most likely to be thanked for their service -
The AWOL Award: Most likely to call out a professor -
The Lockheed Martin "we didn't mean to crash into Mars" Award: Most likely to get the basic algebra/units wrong -
The Groupme Award: Most Talkative on Groupme -
The Maverick & Goose Award: Most inseparable dynamic duo -
The Intro to Aero Award: Most likely to name the airplane flying by -
The Gulfstream Award: Most likely to fly first class -
The Air Traffic Controller Award: Least likely to get stressed out -
The Brayton Cycle Award: Most likely to have a laptop that sounds like a jet engine -
The Amelia Earhart Award: Most likely to be flying -
The Red Ribbon Award: Most likely to have a “remove before flight” keychain -
The Mach Award: Most likely to jump on the hypersonic hype train -
The Orbital Debris Award: Messiest workplace -
The Kevin Shinpaugh Award: Most likely to move off the grid -
The Mark Watney Award: Most likely to get stuck on Mars -
The Sigourney Weaver Award: Most likely to fight an alien -
The Space Cadet Award: Most likely to zone out midconversation -
The Supercomputer Award: Shinpaugh’s favorite -
The Major Tom Award: Most likely to be lost forever in space -
The Zookeeper Award: Best at Rhino -
The Houseboat Award: Most likely to live on a boat -
The Kevin Wang Award: Most likely to make you smile -
The Gray Hull Disease Award: Most Likely to spend a career working for NAVSEA -
The Jethro Gibbs Award: Most likely to build a boat in their basement -
The Yacht Club Award: Most likely to get sidetracked looking at pictures of luxury watercraft -
The Stefano Brizzolara Award: Best dressed -
The Jack Sparrow Award: Most likely to go down with the ship -
The SSM Award: Most likely to drown in an Excel sheet -
The Gilligan’s Island Award: Most likely to get lost in the middle of nowhere -
The Symphony Award: Best at MAESTRO -
The Alan Brown Award: Most likely to go on a tangent about a sea story -
Chalk Award: Jinxed with technology -
Most likely to outsource a lecture -
Most Approachable -
Most Quotable -