Award for Teaching Excellence

The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science commits to excellence in teaching and learning. The faculty's Award for Teaching Excellence recognizes and encourages:

outstanding instruction
curriculum development and innovation in the classroom and laboratories

Up to two awards are presented annually. Award winners' names are displayed on a permanent wall plaque near the dean's office and the winner receives a certificate. Winners are usually presented and citations read at fall convocation.

Nominations

Faculty, staff or students can nominate someone. Nominees:

must have at least 3 years' teaching experience within UVic's Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
may be full-time or part-time
include tenured, untenured, teaching assistant professors and sessional faculty
include laboratory instructors involved in extensive teaching functions

The deadline for nominations is mid-May.

You can submit nominations at any time using the nomination form below. The selection committee meets in late May to consider all nominations.

Previous winners of this award or of the UVic Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching within the past six years are not eligible.

Teaching Excellence nomination form
167KB PDF file

Selection committee

The teaching award selection committee consists of:

the dean of engineering and computer science (committee chair)
one faculty member from each department in the faculty appointed by the dean
two student representatives:
- one selected by the Engineering Student Society
- one selected by the Computer Science Course Union

In the event the dean gets nominated for an award, the associate dean (undergraduate programs) will chair the committee.

2023 recipient

Dr. Celina Berg
computer science

2022	Dr. Tara Troy civil engineering
2021	Dr. Thomas Froese civil engineering	Dr. Ilamparithi Thirumarai Chelvan electrical and computer engineering
2020	Dr. Mohsen Akbari mechanical engineering	Dr. Michael Adams electrical and computer engineering
2019	Dr. Daniela Damian computer science	Dr. Min Sun civil engineering
2018	Dr. Ben Nadler mechanical engineering	Dr. Hong-Chuan Yang electrical and computer engineering
2017	Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey computer science	Dr. Reuven Gordon electrical and computer engineering
2016	Dr. Mantis Cheng computer science
2015	Dr. Rishi Gupta civil engineering	Dr. Alex Thomo computer science
2014	Dr. Bradley Buckham mechanical engineering	Dr. Stephanie Willerth mechanical engineering
2013	Dr. Yvonne Coady computer science	Dr. Curran Crawford mechanical engineering
2012	Dr. Amirali Baniasadi electrical and computer engineering	Dr. Yang Shi mechanical engineering
2011	Mr. Jason Corless computer science	Dr. Panajotis Agathoklis electrical and computer engineering
2010	Dr. Daniel German computer science	Dr. Henning Struchtrup mechanical engineering
2009	Dr. Jens Bornemann electrical and computer engineering	Dr. Andrew Rowe mechanical engineering
2008	Dr. Ashoka Bhat electrical and computer engineering
2007	Dr. David Sinton mechanical engineering
2006	Dr. Brad Buckham mechanical engineering
2004	Dr. Fayez Gebali electrical and computer engineering
2003	Ms. Mary Sanseverino computer science
2002	Dr. Aaron Gulliver electrical and computer engineering
2001	Dr. Dale Olesky computer science
2000	Dr. Kin Li electrical and computer engineering

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