Each spring, IEEE-HKN invites all chapters to nominate an electrical/computer engineering professor for the C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award.
Prize: Plaque
Each spring, IEEE-HKN invites all chapters to nominate an electrical/computer engineering professor for the C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award.
Prize: Plaque
The award is intended to recognize the central and crucial role of college professors in training and motivating future electrical, computer and allied field student engineers. The program attempts to identify and give international recognition to electrical, computer and allied field engineering professors who have demonstrated, early in their careers, special dedication and creativity in their teaching responsibilities. Thus it is, in part, a counterbalance to the significant pressure for research and publication performance on young professors, and a re-affirmation of the basic and essential needs of excellence in teaching.
Applications are due for this award by 7 May. Submissions must be sent electronically.
C. Holmes MacDonald was instrumental in starting this award in 1972. MacDonald, a Bell Telephone engineer, was a long-time member of the Philadelphia alumni chapter and a past national director of HKN. After his retirement from Bell Telephone, MacDonald, pursuing his love for teaching, became a professor at Drexel University. It was at this point that MacDonald became aware of the need to recognize and encourage young electrical engineering teachers. Shortly after Holmes’ death in 1975, the award took his name: the C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award.
Past Award Winners
2019: Dr. Timothy Hansen, South Dakota State University
2018: Dr. Ward Jewell, Oklahoma State University
2017: Dr. Sid Suryanarayanan, Colorado State University
2016: Dr. Ronald Joe Stanley, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2015: Dr. Preethika Kumar, Wichita State University.
2014: Dr. Dmitriy Garmatyuk, Miami University
2013: Dr. Gayatri Mehta, University of North Texas
2012: Dr. Timothy P. Kurzweg, Drexel University
2011: Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2010: Dr. Barry E. Mullins, Air Force Institute of Technology
2009: Dimitrios Peroulis, Purdue University
2008: No Award Given
2007: No Award Given
2006: No Award Given
2005: Dr. Thomas M. Talavage, Purdue University
2004: Annette von Jouanne, Oregon State University
2003: Dr. Daryl G. Beetner, University of Missouri – Rolla
2002: Dr. Noel N. Schulz, Mississippi State University
2001: Dr. Richard R. Shultz, University of North Dakota
2000: Sheila S. Hemami, Cornell University
1999: Dr. Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University
1998: Dr. Aleta M. Ricciardi, University of Texas at Austin
1997: Dr. Wen-Mei Hwu, University of Illinois – Urbana
1996: Dr. John D. Cressler, Auburn University
1995: Dr. Jo Dale Carothers, University of Arizona
1994: Dr. Bruce L. Walcott, University of Kentucky
1993: Dr. Denice Dee Denton, University of Wisconsin at Madison
1992: Dr. Barry W. Johnson, University of Virginia
1991: Dr. Moshe Kam, Drexel University
1990: Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology
1989: No Award Given
1988: Dr. Clifford R. Pollock, Cornell University
1987: Dr. David G. Meyer, Purdue University
1986: Dr. A. Richard Newton, University of California – Berkeley
1985: No Award Given
1984: Dr. Andrew J. Blanchard, University of Texas at Arlington
1983: No Award Given
1982: Dr. C. Richard Johnson, Cornell University
1981: Dr. Richard O. Claus, Virginia Poly. Institute
1980: No Award Given
1979: Dr. Peter S. Maybeck, Air Force Institute of Technology
1978: Dr. Russell J. Niederjohn, Marquette University
1977: Dr. John E. Fagan, University of Oklahoma
1976: Dr. Stanley R. Liberty, Texas Tech University
1975: Dr. Bruce A. Eisenstein, Drexel University
1974: Dr. Lloyd J. Griffiths, University of Colorado
1973: Dr. James Heinin, Marquette University
1972: Dr. Charles Vincent Smith, University of Texas at Arlington