Posted February 21, 2012 Atlanta, GA
Eleven ECE faculty members will receive the Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award from the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning on March 15. The faculty members include:
Matthieu R. Bloch
Gee-Kung Chang
Thomas M. Conte
Jeffrey A. Davis
Magnus Egerstedt
Faramarz Fekri
Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee
James H. McClellan
Saibal Mukhopadhyay
Yorai Wardi
Linda M. Wills
During fall 2010 and/or spring 2011, these faculty had a response rate of at least 85 percent to the Course-Instructor Opinion Survey and had teaching effectiveness scores of 4.8 in classes that were at least 40 students in size or scores of 4.9 in classes that were at least 15 students in size. To reward their commitment to teaching excellence, they will each receive a one-time, pre-tax award of $1,000, and they will be recognized on Celebrating Teaching Day on March 15.
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
