FACULTY HONORS COMMITTEE
2002-03 ANNUAL
REPORT
Submitted by P. Steffes,
Chair, 2002-03 Faculty Honors Committee
1.) Selection of Chair (August 2002): The Committee Chair for the 2001-02 year (Carol Colatrella) requested indications of interest/nominations for the 2002-03 Chair. Professor Steffes was selected by the Committee.
2.)
Revision of the Call for Nominations: Professor Steffes circulated a
draft of the revised Call for Nominations. After receiving input from the
committee members, a final draft was accepted. (
3.)
Webpage: A website was created so that the Call for Nominations would
be available online: http://www.facultyhonors.gatech.edu . The
website became available on
4.)
Solicitation: An e-mail announcement was sent to all deans and
department heads (
5.)
Committee Meeting (January 10, 2003): A meeting was held to introduce
new members and review the selection process, and to discuss the potential need
for adding members to the Committee so as to broaden the available range of
expertise. (Minutes attached.) It was also recommended that some form of
notification to submitters of unsuccessful nominations be conducted after the
selection meeting.
6.)
Award Selection: The Committee met on
* Class of 1940 W. Roane
Beard Outstanding Teacher Award ($10,000
award and plaque):
Professor Karen K. Dixon (CEE)
* Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding
Teacher Award ($10,000
award and plaque):
Professor Ali Adibi (ECE)
* Outstanding Service Award ($5,000 award and
plaque): We have decided
to split this award
among two winners, Professor Said I. Abdel-Khalik
(ME) and Professor Roozbeh
Kangari (ARCH)
* Outstanding Continuing Education Award:
Professor Monson H. Hayes III
(ECE)
* Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activity Award
($7,500 award and
plaque): Professor
William D. Hunt (ECE)
* Outstanding Innovative Use of Education
Technology Award ($7,500
award and plaque):
Professor Ronald W. Schafer(ECE) and Professor James
H. McClellan(ECE)
(nominated as a team, award will be shared)
In addition, the Committee
recommended two names to President Clough for consideration for the
Distinguished Professor Award, Professor Kevin F. Brennan from the School of
ECE and Professor David M. McDowell from the School of ME. The nomination
packages for these candidates were delivered to the Presidents office on
February 17. 2003.
7.)
Announcement of Awardees: The chair informed Aimee Anderson (Project
Coordinator, ICPA) of the award winners by e-mail on
8.)
Presentation of the Awards: The chair presented all of the awards,
except for the Distinguished Professor Award (presented by Drs. McMath and Clough) to the award winners at the Faculty
Honors Luncheon (
Georgia
Institute of Technology
2003 Faculty
Awards
The Faculty Honors Committee solicits nominations of faculty members as candidates for recognition in six categories. Considering that the competition for many awards is quite stiff, the committee welcomes re-nominations, which require submission of previously submitted and updated materials as described below.
1)
Class of 1934
Distinguished Professor Award:
This award recognizes sustained outstanding achievement in teaching, research and service, and is the highest award given to a faculty member. The award includes a stipend of $20,000. This years award will be presented to a currently active professor who has made significant, long-term contributions in teaching, research, and public service. Such contributions should have brought broad recognition to the professor, to his/her School and to the Institute.
The Distinguished Professor Award was
instituted in 1984 by the Class of 1934 in observance of its 50th
Anniversary. In establishing this award,
the Class of 1934 stipulated that nominators of candidates for this honor can
include Georgia Tech alumni. The Faculty
Honors Committee, which has initial responsibility for assessing candidates, along
with the President and the Provost, both of whom make the final decision, join
in encouraging nominations from alumni groups.
Nominations of current professors who have made major contributions to
the educational careers and to the personal development of students at Georgia
Tech are encouraged.
2)
Class of 1940
W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award and Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector
Outstanding Teacher Award:
Two awards are presented each year to
faculty members who have taught at least six semester hours during the previous
academic year. Each recipient will
receive a $10,000 stipend. Funds for
these awards are provided by the class of 1940.
Criteria used for judging teaching excellence include extraordinary efforts in teaching, inspiration transmitted to students, direct impact and involvement with students, intellectual integrity and scholarship, and impact on post graduate success of students.
3)
Outstanding
Service Award:
This award is presented to a member of the general faculty who has benefited the Institute, profession, school/department, or the general public in an exemplary manner. The recipient will receive $5,000. Funds for this award are made possible by the Office of the Provost.
4)
Outstanding
Continuing Education Award:
This award recognizes a member of the general faculty who has made significant contributions to the Institute, profession, industry/government, and/or general public in the area of continuing education. The recipient of the award will receive $2,000. Funds for this award are provided by the Department of Continuing Education.
Criteria for judging candidates will
include excellence of instruction, value of courses to the participants, and
development of successful new courses.
5)
Class of 1934
Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award:
This award recognizes faculty who have
made significant interdisciplinary contributions to teaching and research. It is becoming increasingly clear that many
opportunities for innovative teaching and research involve intellectual efforts
from more than one discipline. The
Institute, through its opportunities for joint appointments, is encouraging
such activity. The nomination of
multiple people to share in the award is permissible, to enable recognition of
distinguished collaborative activities, particularly by young, untenured
faculty. This award has been made
possible through the generosity of the Class of 1934. It includes a stipend of $7,500.
6)
Class of 1934
Outstanding Innovative Use of Education Technology:
This award recognizes a member of the faculty who has developed and instituted innovative techniques to improve the learning environment and the learning process. The recipient of the award will receive $7,500. Funds for this award are provided by the class of 1934.
Send nominations for awards by
Faculty
Honors Committee
School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia
Institute of Technology
Professor
Steffes may be contacted by telephone at (404) 894-3128 or by e-mail at paul.steffes@ece.gatech.edu .
Other members of the 2002-2003 Faculty Honors Committee are Carol Colatrella (LCC), Kirsten Ely (MGT), Narayanan Jayaraman (MGT), Linda Thomas-Mobley (ARCH), and a student representative. The 2003 call for nominations is
also available at http://www.facultyhonors.gatech.edu
The Committee requests six (6) copies of each nomination
package, which should include a resume and the nominating and seconding letters
describing how the individual is distinguished.
All current members of the faculty who have not received the same award
in the past ten (10) years are eligible.
The awards will be presented at the annual Faculty-Staff Honors Luncheon
on
1)
Minimum
Requirements:
Full Resume
Letters of
Recommendation
2)
Additional
Requirements:
(a) For those candidates for either of the two Teaching Awards, please include:
□ some letters of recommendation from past and present
graduate and undergraduate students
□ evidence of teaching effectiveness that may include one or
more of the following: student evaluation scores, senior exit interviews, peer
reviews, or other relevant sources of evaluation
(b) For those candidates for the Distinguished Professor Award, please include:
□ letters of recommendation from colleagues and peers,
particularly from those outside of
□ documentation
of scholarship and impact of research
□ letters and other documentation regarding impact on graduate
and undergraduate students and service to
□ no
more than fifteen (15) recommendation letters