Award ceremony celebrates staff and faculty achievement

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

This January saw the Waterloo Engineering community come together to celebrate a year of excellence in teaching, research and service.

Hosted by Dean Mary Wells, 2024 Waterloo Engineering Faculty & Staff Awards Dinner the event saw individuals receive awards for teaching excellence, success in research and recognised the contribution of staff members to the Faculty. The ceremony was also a chance to acknowledge important regional, national and international awards won by Engineering faculty, highlighting the impact of the work done by Waterloo based educators and researchers in the past year.

The recipients of the internal faculty awards this year are:

  • Peter Huck (Civil and Environmental Engineering) – Award of Excellence in Grad Supervision
  • Rania Al-Hammoud (Civil and Environmental Engineering) – Teaching Excellence Award
  • Judy Caron (Chemical Engineering) – Faculty Outstanding Staff Performance Award
  • John Zhang (Chemical Engineering) – Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award
  • Richard Barber (Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Faculty Outstanding Staff Performance Award
  • Mahla Poudineh (Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Faculty Research Excellence Award
  • Carmen Caradima (Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award
  • Simarjeet Saini (Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Teaching Excellence Award
  • Bill Bishop (Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Unsung Hero Award
  • Daniel Delattre (Engineering Computing) – Faculty Outstanding Staff Performance Award
  • George Lamont (Faculty of Arts) – Teaching Excellence Award
  • Sibel Alumur Alev (Management Science and Engineering) – Faculty Research Excellence Award
  • Adrian Gerlich (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering) – Award of Excellence in Grad Supervision
  • Sean Peterson (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering) – Faculty Research Excellence Award
  • Paul Fieguth (Systems Design Engineering) – Award of Excellence in Grad Supervision
  • Jennifer Howcroft (Systems Design Engineering) – Boyce Family Award for Teaching Excellence
  • John Zelek (Systems Design Engineering) – En-Hui Yang Award
  • Sarah Landy (Systems Design Engineering) – Faculty Outstanding Staff Performance Award
  • Maud Gorbet (Systems Design Engineering) – Faculty Service Excellence Award

Go to Awards and honours to see more achievements from Engineering faculty.

Dean mary Wells

Dean Mary Wells hosted the awards

Engineering staff and faculty applaud.

Staff and faculty applaud award winners