The Cockrell School annually awards the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor to recognize teaching excellence. This award recognizes outstanding classroom teaching by an assistant professor to promote and encourage exceptional teaching in a faculty member's early career.
Recipients must demonstrate effective teaching as reflected through mechanisms such as course/ instructor surveys, show a warmth of spirit and a genuine concern for students, and exhibit the ability to impart knowledge while challenging students to conduct independent inquiry.
Nominations are made by engineering students and faculty. Final selection is made by a committee composed of faculty members and the presidents of the Graduate Engineering Council and the Student Engineering Council. The associate dean for academic affairs will serve as non-voting chair of the committee.
Recipients
2023-24
Yingda Lu, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
2022-23
Krishna Kumar, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
2021-22
Adrianne Rosales, Chemical Engineering
2020-21
Manuel Rausch, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
2019-20
Filippo Mangolini, Mechanical Engineering
2018-19
Brandon Jones, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
2017-18
Hugh Daigle, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
2016-17
Patricia Clayton, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2015-16
Stephen Boyles, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2014-15
Paola Passalacqua, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2013-14
Fernanda Leite, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2012-13
Todd Humphreys, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
2011-12
Michael Webber, Mechanical Engineering
2010-11
Carolyn Seepersad, Mechanical Engineering
2009-10
None Awarded
2008-09
Muhammad Zaman, Biomedical Engineering
2007-08
Jeffrey Siegel, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2006-07
Oguzhan Bayrak, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2005-06
Thomas Truskett, Chemical Engineering
2004-05
Kevin Folliard, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2003-04
E. Glenn Lightsey, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
2002-03
Katherine Liapi, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
2001-02
Eric Taleff, Mechanical Engineering
2000-01
Christine Schmidt, Biomedical Engineering
1999-2000
Craig Chase, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1998-99
Noel Clemens, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
1997-98
Robert Gilber, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
1996-97
G. Edward Gibson, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
1995-96
Roger Bonnecaze, Chemical Engineering
1994-95
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1993-94
Michael Engelhardt, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
1992-93
Mark Mear, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
1991-92
Jack Lee, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1990-91
Jeffrey Hubbell, Chemical Engineering
1989-90
Christine Maziar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1988-89
Philip Varghese, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
1987-88
Dean Neikirk, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1986-87
Mark Miller, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
1985-86
John Ekerdt, Chemical Engineering
1984-85
Ronald Matthews, Mechanical Engineering
