Teaching and research excellence to be recognized today

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Today, the University offers its sincere congratulations to its members who are being honoured with the President’s Excellence in Teaching and Research awards.

Typically, the celebration takes the form of an in-person reception event, but this year the University is celebrating the achievements of the award winners virtually with the entire campus. To see the full list of recipients, visit the Excellence in Teaching and Research website.

Teaching awards celebrate teaching that has lasting, positive effects on students and deepens student learning. The award is open to all those who teach students at the University of Waterloo and is not limited to those holding faculty appointments.

Research awards celebrate significant achievements of faculty members and graduate students in research and innovation that are awarded by national and international foundations, associations, and institutions.

Congratulations to the following electrical and computer engineering faculty:

Recipient of a teaching award:

  • Kankar Bhattacharya

Recipients of research awards:

  • Werner Dietl
  • Pin-Han Ho
  • Fakhri Karray
  • Raafat Mansour
  • Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
  • Lan Wei