COE Announces Teaching Award Winners.

The College of Engineering has announced its 2009 Teaching Award Winners:

The College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award

This award is funded through an endowment by an alumnus and his wife in appreciation for the excellent teaching that he received during his students days. In support of undergraduate education, the donors seek to improve the excellence of teaching in the college by providing an annual teaching award that will motivate teachers to increase the educational impact they make on their students.

Recipient : Steven J. Franke (ECE)

Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence

In 1968, undergraduate engineering students established the Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence to honor Dean Emeritus William L. Everitt at the time of his retirement. The award, which annually recognizes one engineering faculty member for outstanding undergraduate teaching, is one of the most coveted awards available to the faculty and serves to emphasize the importance attached to good teaching in the college. The award is made possible through an endowment contributed by the personal and corporate friends of Dean Everitt.

Recipient : Rohit Bhargava (BioE)

Collins Award for Innovative Teaching

W. Leighton Collins was a faculty member in the College of Engineering from 1929-65 and former executive director of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He was a pioneer and leader in ASEE and helped shape engineering instruction in the United States. This award recognizes outstanding development or use of new and innovative teaching methods. The winner receives a check and a plaque.

Recipient : Scott M. Olson (CEE)

BP Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction

The BP Foundation, committed to promoting innovation in science and technology, provides an annual award of $3,000, for a faculty member or academic staff member who has introduced a particularly successful innovation into undergraduate instruction. Innovative approaches to undergraduate engineering and science education might involve particularly unusual course content, format, style of presentation, ways to involve students, or the use of instructional technologies. The following criteria will be generally applicable: In what ways is the new approach innovative? How effective is the innovation in terms of student learning? .

Recipient : Armand Beaudoin (MechSE) 

The Rose Award

The Rose Award for Teaching Excellence is intended to foster and reward excellence in undergraduate teaching in the College of Engineering. It recognizes teachers who excel at motivating undergraduate students to learn and appreciate engineering. Recipients receive a monetary award and a plaque.

Recipients :

Lawrence Angrave (CS)

Marina Miletic (CHB)