Engineering Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
This award recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching. To receive the award, the awardee must be a full-time faculty member in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, have at least two years of teaching experience in the college, be involved in student engagement and scholarship, and cannot have received this award in the prior five years. Selection will be based on the recommendation of the Honors and Awards Committee, with the final determination made by the dean of the College of Engineering. Awardees receive a $2,500 cash prize.
Current recipient
William Hageman
This year’s recipient is William Hageman, assistant professor in the Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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In the past 10 years, Hageman has started teaching the introductory course in electrical engineering to first-year freshmen, teaching the core circuits class to second-semester freshmen and first-semester sophomores, and teaching the circuit theory 2 class. In that time, the retention rate for electrical engineering students has increased from 60% to 80%.
- In all of the classes Hageman teaches, he receives very high evaluations from students. This is a testament to his high effort to make his classes engaging and great learning environments.
Criteria for nomination
The nomination process is coordinated by the department head or department awards committee. Nomination packets include the following items of support for the nominee:
- Letter of nomination (can include comments/input from peers and students).
- Current curriculum vitae.
- Summary of outstanding instruction in undergraduate courses that address the following:
- All undergraduate courses taught within the last two years (include course number, title, credit hours/contact hours and number of students enrolled).
- Use the included form: Summary of courses taught.
- Include TEVAL summaries of the above undergraduate classes. Include course number and title, term, number of students and TEVAL summary scores.
- Use the included form: Student ratings of classroom instruction.
- All undergraduate courses taught within the last two years (include course number, title, credit hours/contact hours and number of students enrolled).
- One-page (maximum) statement that addresses:
- Nominee's teaching philosophy.
- List of other undergraduate educational contributions made by the nominee within the last two years, such as advising student organizations, undergraduate research and/or other creative inquiry activity, major course/instructional enhancements, educational grants/contracts, workshops, professional society engagement and other related scholarship. Do not include general student curricular advising.