The School of Engineering and Applied Science invites nominations for the 2025 Distinguished Teacher Award
The Distinguished Teacher Award recognizes a sustained record of excellence in teaching our students, and in making contributions to our education mission. Here, “teaching our students” is defined in a broad sense to include instruction of undergraduate and graduate students. Similarly, “contributions to our education mission” is also defined in a broad sense to include textbooks, monographs, and educational software, which have impacted education. The Distinguished Teacher Award is reserved for a senior faculty member with a long, outstanding teaching record.
The guidelines are as follows:
- Department chairs in CBE, CEE, COS, ECE, MAE, and ORFE can nominate one faculty member for the Distinguished Teacher Award
- Please nominate faculty members who have not been a previous recipient of these awards.
- Please keep nomination materials for each candidate within a two-page limit.
Nominations are due in April each year and discussed during the Chairs-only Dean’s Executive Council Meeting. The award recipient(s) is then recognized at the Class Day Ceremony.
Distinguished Teacher Award
2023-2024
Professor Maria Garlock
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2022-2023
Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
2021-2022
Professor Yiguang Ju
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2020-2021
Professor Andrew Houch
Electical and Computer Engineering
2019-2020
Professor Athanassios Panagiotopoulos
Chemical and Biological Engineering
2018-2019
Professor Peter Ramadge
Electrical Engineering
2017-2018
Professor Richard Register
Chemical and Biological Engineering
2016-2017
Professor Michael Celia
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2015-2016
Professor Mung Chiang
Electrical Engineering
2014-2015
Professor Michael Littman
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2013-2014
Professor Celeste Nelson
Chemical and Biological Engineering
2012-2013
Professor Claire Gmachl
Electrical Engineering
2011-2012
Professor Stephen Lyon
Electrical Engineering
2010-2011
Kevin Wayne
Computer Science
2009-2010
Professor Clancy Rowley
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
2008-2009
Professor Paul Prucnal
Electrical Engineering
2007-2008
Professor Pablo Debenedetti
(CHE)
2006-2007
Professor Erhan Cinlar
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Professor Ed Zschau
Electrical Engineering
2005-2006
Professor Brian Kernighan
Computer Science
2004-2005
Professor Sharad Malik
Electrical Engineering
Professor Sankaran Sundaresan
(CHE)
2003-2004
Professor Sanjeev Kulkarni
Electrical Engineering
2002-2003
Professor Vincent Poor
Electrical Engineering
2001-2002
Professor George Scherer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2000-2001
Professor David Billington
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Robert Sedgewick
Computer Science
1999-2000
Professor Ahmet Cakmak
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
1998-1999
Professor James Sturm
Electrical Engineering
Professor Yannis Kevrekidis
(CHE)
1997-1998
Professor Irvin Glassman
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
1996-1997
Professor Ken Steiglitz
Computer Science
1995–1996
Professor Roy Jackson
(CHE)