Dean’s Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor
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.