Martin Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award

The Award recognizes and rewards outstanding College of Engineering educators for excellence in teaching and for contributions to the art of teaching. This teaching award is established to confer honor upon individuals whose inspiration and contributions to student learning are truly significant.

Eligibility

• All full-time faculty in the College of Engineering are eligible.
• Past recipients are not eligible for a period of five years after receiving the award.

Qualifications

All candidates must have:

• demonstrated success as a teacher by combining competence in subject matter with an ability to inspire students to higher levels of scholarship;
• improved the tools of and/or conditions for teaching (e.g., including the revising or writing of new textbooks, and the development of courses, curricula and/or laboratory or other teaching equipment); and
• consistently demonstrated teaching effectiveness in a manner that substantially exceeds the normal expectation for a faculty member.

Selection

A committee will be appointed by the Dean of Engineering to select award recipients.

Nomination Process

Nominations may be initiated by Engineering students, faculty, department chairs or directors. Once the nomination process has concluded, the respective department chair for each faculty nominee or manager for each staff nominee will be contacted to complete a Recommendation Form before all materials are sent to the appropriate Awards Committee for evaluation.

The nomination packet should consist of ONE pdf file submitted through the Faculty Nomination Form (multiple submissions for the same nomination will not be accepted) containing the following:

• one letter of nomination including the names of the nominator(s) and the nominee which should include the rationale for the nomination and pertinent accomplishments; the letter will be preferably one page and a maximum of two pages in length;
• an updated CV of the nominee;
• a maximum of three letters of support from current or former students and/or Engineering colleagues.
• Additional required information
  • number of years of full-time NUCOE faculty service that the nominee has
  • list any graduate and undergraduate students this nominee has supervised in the past three years
  • list of courses the nominee has developed or revised
  • list any books the nominee has written
  • list laboratory or teaching materials the nominee has created
  • list other instructional contributions the nominee has provided
  • A summary of the courses that the nominee taught for the past THREE years using the following headings PLUS attach copies of all TRACE evaluations (with student comments).
    •           Course Name                      TRACE Overall     TRACE Overall Instructor
      Year     & Number     Enrollment    Course Rating        Teaching Effectiveness   .

If you have any questions, please email fac-staff-awards@coe.neu.edu.

Past Recipients