UVA mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Patrick Hopkins has won the prestigious ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten to twenty years following graduation with a baccalaureate degree in mechanical engineering or related field. Hopkins joins the ranks of accomplished researchers like Evelyn Wang at MIT who won the award in 2017. Hopkins has also been recognized by other awards such as the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer.