Recipients of the 2015 Waterloo Engineering Faculty and Staff awards were recognized for outstanding contributions to education and research at an awards dinner held January 28.
The Faculty’s Teaching Excellence Award that recognizes outstanding teaching and commitment to the enrichment of Waterloo Engineering education was presented to James Craig of civil and environmental engineering, Alexander Wong of systems design engineering and Sean Peterson of mechanical and mechatronics engineering.
Sean Peterson is presented with the Faculty's Teaching Excellence Award by Wayne Parker, acting dean of engineering.
Irena
Baltaduonis,
electrical
and
computer
engineering,
was
honoured
with
the
Outstanding
Staff
Performance
Award
in
the
administrative
Irena Baltaduonis is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Staff Performance Award in the administrative category.
There were two recipients of the Outstanding Staff Performance Award in the technical category. Richard Morrison, civil and environmental engineering, was recognized for his professionalism, excellent work ethic and commitment to providing an outstanding student lab experience. Ray White, engineering computing, was honoured for his professionalism, excellent work ethic and commitment to providing outstanding technical support to the faculty, staff and student body.
The
Engineering
Research
Excellence
Award
honours
outstanding
research
accomplishment,
innovative
ideas
and
dedication
to
the
Faculty’s
research.
The
2015
award
recipients
are Luis
Ricardez-Sandoval
of
chemical
engineering
in
the
assistant
professor
category,
Yuning
Li
of
chemical
engineering
in
the
associate
professor
category,
and
Guang
Guang Gong of electrical and computer engineering was presented with the Engineering Research Excellence Award in the professor category.