The ECE Department’s Outstanding Academic Performance Award, which is presented to juniors for academic excellence, is awarded to Zachary Breit, who is a junior computer engineering major and a member of the Gemstone Honors Program. For his Gemstone research, Zach is studying the usability and security of web authentication methods with a team of nine other honors students. He is also the Software Development Director for Bitcamp (UMD's largest on-campus hackathon), where he leads a team of 12 programmers to create websites and apps to support the 1000+ person event. In the future, Zach is excited to pursue a career in robotics engineering.

Timothy Henderson is a senior computer engineering student. He is a member of Design Cultures and Creativity in the Honors College, a leadership team member of the Texas Instruments Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Peer Mentor Program, the academic chair of the University of Maryland's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers chapter, and has been a teaching assistant for three years. In his senior year, he worked to recruit more teaching assistants in the ECE department. After graduation, he plans on completing his master's degree in electrical engineering at UMD and he eventually hopes to work in the semiconductor field. 

Daojun (June) Xu is a senior computer engineering student with a 3.88 GPA. She is an alumna of Design Cultures and Creativity in the Honors College. June was an Undergraduate Teaching Fellow for the Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) course for four semesters. She also acted as a Peer Mentor in the ECE Peer Mentor Program, before assuming the role of Communication Coordinator for its Student Leadership Team. After graduation, she will be joining Accenture Federal Services in Washington, D.C. as a Software Engineering Analyst. 

John Heide is a senior computer engineering student in University Honors. He was a member of Engineers Without Borders, traveling to Puerto Rico in June 2018 with a team to install solar panels on a nursing home after Hurricane Maria. He was on the team that traveled to Suma Ahenkro, Ghana in January 2019 to install a photovoltaic system at a secondary school. He was also a tuba player in the Mighty Sound of Maryland for four years and a squad leader for two. John had two summer internships at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, where he will return full time after graduation. 

Mihailo Rancic is a senior studying computer engineering and mathematics. On campus, he is a leader of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Peer Mentoring Program, which provides incoming ECE freshmen with mentorship and support. He is also involved with research, specifically in designing a tiny, high-temperature central processing unit at the University of Maryland and in Field Programmable Gate Array hardware acceleration at Carnegie Mellon University. Finally, he serves as an undergraduate teaching assistant for a course in programming languages. Mihailo has recently been accepted into graduate school and plans to earn his Ph.D. in ECE, focusing on research in computer architecture. 

Xinyi Shi is a senior computer engineering student and a member of University Honors. She has served as an undergraduate teaching fellow within the Electrical and Computer Engineering department for three semesters and has been an active member of the avionics subteam of University of Maryland Loop since 2019. She has participated in research projects pertaining to topics such as natural language processing and the development of cancer-detecting wearable devices. Xinyi intends to pursue graduate studies after completing her degree.