McLeod Outstanding Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Teaching Award
The McLeod Award recognizes outstanding teaching achievement by graduate students within the Department of Chemical Engineering. It is given to the best graduate teaching assistants each calendar year and is based on a number of criteria relating to teaching effectiveness and impact on student development. The specific criteria are:
- Excellence in Instruction and Instructional Techniques
- Teaching Effectiveness, Strategies, and Creativity
- Ability to Motivate and Instill Values Beneficial to Students
- Impact on Undergraduate Students
- Intellectual and Professional Development
- Initiative and Timeliness on Projects
- Scholarship in the Subject (particularly activities that have influenced or enhanced student learning)
The McLeod Award is the highest teaching distinction given by the Department of Chemical Engineering. It was started in 2005 by a gift from chemical engineering alumnus, Dr. Chandler McLeod.
2005
Asa Vaughan
Siddarth Venkatesh
2006
Adam Byrd
Matthew Kayatin
Steven Saunders
Charlie Solvason
2007
Naveed Ansari
Zenda Davis
Hector Galicia
Matthew Kayatin
2008
Robert Henderson
Joshua Jackson
Charles C. Solvason
2009
Geyou Ao
Hector Galicia
Alex Hodge
Charles C. Solvason
2010
Hector Galicia
Alex Hodge
Courtney Ober
Hema Ramsurn
2011
Daniel Horn
Shantanu Pradham
Zi Xiu Wang
Charles White
2012
Robert Compton
Charlotte Stewart
Arianna Tieppo
Ricky Whitener
