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Campus Awards for Excellence in Teaching
from Teaching at Georgia Tech: A Guidebook for Faculty, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants (17th Ed.)
To recognize and celebrate outstanding teaching accomplishments of faculty and students, Georgia Tech has established numerous campus-wide awards. Some of these awards are as follows: CTL Curriculum Innovation Award
This award recognizes faculty who are improving the quality of education at Georgia Tech through pedagogical and curricular innovation. The award is open to full-time faculty of any rank, or a team of faculty who have implemented an innovation in their course or departmental curriculum. The award recipient (whether an individual faculty member or a team of faculty) receives $3,000.
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This award is open to full-time faculty of any rank who have excelled in teaching in the laboratory. The laboratory can be broadly defined to include traditional science labs as well as other formal courses that feature experiential learning where students participate in the processes of investigation, analysis, and reflection in order to reach a deeper understanding of course concepts. The award recipient receives $3,000. CTL Innovation in Co-Curricular Education Award
This award is open to full-time faculty of any rank and recognizes an individual who increases student learning outside the traditional curriculum and helps Georgia Tech achieve its strategic goal of graduating global citizens who can contribute to all sectors of society. The award amount is $3,000. CTL Undergraduate Educator Award
This award is open to non-tenure-track faculty members who hold a 75-100 percent appointment, teach undergraduate credit course(s), and have completed at least two semesters in his or her current position at Georgia Tech. The award recognizes excellent teaching and outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. Up to two award recipients are selected, each receiving $3,000. CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
This award is open to any nominated full-time, tenure-track faculty member who does not yet have tenure, but who has completed at least one academic year on the tenure-track at Tech and at least three semesters of teaching at Georgia Tech. The award recognizes teaching excellence, educational innovation, impact on student lives, and research/teaching connections. Up to six award recipients are selected, each receiving $3,000. Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award
This award recognizes sustained outstanding achievement in teaching, research, and service, and is the highest award given to a faculty member. The award includes a stipend of $25,000. Class of 1934 Innovative Use of Education Technology Award
This award recognizes a faculty member who has developed and instituted innovative techniques to improve the learning environment and process. The award amount is $7,500. Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award and Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award
These two awards are presented each year to faculty members who have taught at least six semester hours during the previous academic year and who have demonstrated extraordinary efforts in teaching, inspired students, and had a direct impact on the intellectual integrity, scholarship, and post-graduate success of students. The Beard Award goes to junior faculty. The Ector Award goes to senior faculty. Each recipient receives a $10,000 stipend. Education Partnership Award
The Education Partnership Award is an annual award recognizing genuine and substantial partnerships among Tech faculty, students, and the K-12 community. The award has a $7,500 prize to be divided among members of each of the three constituencies.
Faculty Award for Academic Outreach
This award is for full-time faculty of any rank who use their academic expertise to further the learning of K-12 students, teachers, or other educational stakeholders of Georgia. Up to two awards are granted each year. The award amount is $2,500. If two awards are given, this sum will be evenly split between the winners.
Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award
This annual award recognizes faculty who provide outstanding teaching to students in core courses. This award is open to fulltime faculty of all ranks, with preference given to tenure-track faculty. The award recipient(s) each receive $3,000. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award
This award replicates the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Award. The campus winner will be Georgia Tech’s nominee for the Regents’ award in the upcoming year. The award amount is $3,000. Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching
This award replicates the USG’s Board of Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching. The campus winner will be Georgia Tech's nominee for the Regents' award in the upcoming year. The award amount is $3,000. CTL Awards for Students in Teaching Roles
Schools or academic units conduct an internal competition to select a department winner in one or more of the categories: Graduate Student Instructor of the Year, Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, and Online Head Teaching Assistant of the Year, and Online Teaching Assistant of the Year. CTL invites each department winner to apply for the institute-wide award in his/ her category. Up to three award recipients in each category are selected, each receiving $500.
Professors Fani Boukouvala, Martha Grover, Andrew "AJ" Medford, J. Carson Meredith, and David Sholl receive the 2022 CTL Curriculum Innovation Award for their development of the Graduate Certificate in Data Science for the Chemical Industry, which is Georgia Tech’s first fully online graduate certificate and the first program of its kind for professionals in the chemical industry.
2022 Faculty Award Recipients
CTL Curriculum Innovation Award
Fani Boukouvala, Assistant Professor; Martha Grover, Professor; A. J. Medford, Assistant Professor; J. Carson Meredith, Professor; and David Scholl, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
CTL Innovation in Co-Curricular Education Award
Mary Hudachek-Buswell, Lecturer; Fisayo Omojokun, Senior Lecturer, Computing
CTL Undergraduate Educator Award
Jacqueline Garner, Senior Lecturer, Scheller College of Business; Amit S. Jariwala, Senior Academic Professional, Mechanical Engineering
CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
Katie Badura, Assistant Professor, Scheller College of Business; John James Blazeck, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Neha Garg, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Allen Hyde, Assistant Professor, History and Sociology; Natalie Khazaal, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages; Annabelle C. Singer, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award
Marilyn Brown, Regents’ Professor, Public Policy
Brendan Saltaformaggio, Assistant Professor, Cybersecurity and Privacy
Faculty Award for Academic Outreach
James R. Sowell, Principal Academic Professional, Physics
Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award
Michael Evans, Senior Academic Professional, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Christie N. Stewart, Senior Academic Professional
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award
Emily G. Weigel, Senior Academic Professional, Biological Sciences
Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching
CTL Awards for Students in Teaching Roles
Graduate Student Instructor of the Year
Elizabeth Jones, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Alexandra Muscalus, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Boni Yraguen, Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year
Vinodhini Comandur, Aerospace Engineering; Jiayu Yao, Scheller College of Business; Tao Yu, Mathematics
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant of the Year
Bryan Clark, Mathematics; Kevin Li, Computational Science and Engineering; Shawn Wahi, Computer Science
Online Head Teaching Assistant of the Year
Jaewoo Jung, Mathematics; Kai Ouyang, Computer Science; Joanne Truong, Interactive Computing
Online Teaching Assistant of the Year
Addison Malone, History and Sociology; Alicia Robang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Raghave Tandon, Biomedical Engineering
