Faculty, Staff and Student Awards Information

Friday, January 20, 2017

THANK YOU FOR NOMINATING YOUR CO-WORKERS!
NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

CONGRATULATIONS to the 2017 College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Faculty and Staff Award Nominees!

Amanda Lowe Amy Echo-Hawk Andrew Arena Arvind Santhanakrishnan Ashlee Ford Versypt Awilda Rodriguez Ben Champlin Brittany Belli Carolyn Sanders Chaoyue Zhao

Chelsea Robinson College IT Staff Collin Boettcher Craig Hannan Danielle Bellmer Ed Kirtley Ehsan Moallem Eng. Dist. Ed. Erin Portman Feng Lu

FPP IT Team James Kidd Jean Kerr-Hunter Jessica Ley Jingtong Hu Jon Worden Kelly Naas Khaled Sallam Kristie Newby Lori Johnson

Mary Muth Michael Hinkston Michelle Redmond Mike Melancon Misty Daniels O&E Team Terry Collins PLTW Team Prem Bikkina Raman Singh

Ranji Vaidyanathan Roshan Revankar Sayeed Mohammad Scott Walker Stan Carroll Steve George Susan Ramsey Virginia Charter Yoko Speight Young Chang

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banquet will be held Friday, April 14. More details to follow.

 

FACULTY AWARDS

Purpose:

The faculty award will encourage faculty to build and maintain a foundation of excellent teaching, scholarly activities and research. 

Procedure

1. CEAT will annually recognize a minimum of two (2) and a maximum of four (4) faculty members from the college. The awards listed in this category are: CEAT Excellent Teacher Award, CEAT Outstanding Faculty Award and CEAT Outstanding Research Award.
2. Recipients from this category that have been awarded during the preceding five (5) years are not eligible to receive the award.
3. Nominations of a faculty member may be made by any member of the faculty or staff of the college. Each nomination must be restricted to no more than one (1) page of information. This page should include direct evidence of the nominee’s qualities. Two (2) additional pages may be included as support letters and/or other materials the nominator wants the selection committee to consider. All material in excess of the three (3) pages limit will be ignored.
4. Only one nomination will be considered for a person in one year. If multiple nominations are received for one individual, the nominations will be returned to the nominators to work together on a single nomination.
5. The selection of the recipient will be by the awards selection committee. The selection committee will consist of one (1) representative from each of the following CEAT areas: Faculty Council, Research Council, Academic Council, Outreach Council, Executive Council, Staff Representative and College Administration (Dean, Associate Deans and Assistant Dean).
6. At the selection committee meeting, all committee members will compare evaluations and decided on an overall recipient. Majority rule vote will rule if a unanimous decision cannot be reached.

Award

1. At the designated faculty and staff awards banquet each year, the recipient will be announced. Attendance of the recipient is preferred but not mandatory.
2. The recipient will receive a certificate of award and a monetary award of $5,000.

FACULTY AND STAFF AWARDS

Purpose

The faculty and/or staff awards are to recognize individuals or teams who have made a notable contribution to CEAT’s vision and mission for the previous year.

Procedure

1. CEAT will annually recognize between one to three (1-3) staff, or faculty member(s) as individuals or one to five (1-5) members of a team. The awards listed in this category are: CEAT Dean’s Leadership Excellence Award, CEAT Outstanding Team Achievement Award and CEAT Outreach Excellence Award.
2. Recipients of these awards during the preceding five (5) years are not eligible to receive the award.
3. Nominations may be made by any member of the faculty or staff of the college. Each nomination must be restricted to no more than one (1) page of information. This page should include direct evidence of the nominee’s qualities. Two (2) additional pages may be included as support letters and/or other materials the nominator wants the selection committee to consider. All material in excess of the three (3) pages limit will be ignored.
4. Only one nomination will be considered for a person or team in one year. If multiple nominations are received for one individual or one team, the nominations will be returned to the nominators to work together on a single nomination.
5. The selection of the recipient will be by the awards selection committee. The selection committee will consist of one (1) representative from each of the following CEAT areas:  Faculty Council, Research Council, Academic Council, Outreach Council, Staff Representative, Executive Council and College Administration (Dean, Associate Deans and Assistant Dean).
6. At the selection committee meeting, all committee members will compare evaluations and decided on an overall recipient. Majority rule vote will rule if a unanimous decision cannot be reached.

Award

1. At the designated Faculty and Staff Awards Banquet each year the recipient will be announced.  Attendance of the recipient is preferred but not mandatory.
2. The recipients of the team award will receive a certificate of award.

STAFF AWARDS

Purpose

To recognize oustanding performance among staff.

Procedure

1. The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology will annually recognize outstanding staff members at the annual awards presentation. The selection committee will review all nominations and select a minimum of four (4) and a maximum of eight (8) staff awards each year.
2. Winners of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Sustained Superior Performance Award during the preceding five (5) years are not eligible to receive the award. The Sustained Superior Performance award name has been changed to reflect the full scope of the staff members within CEAT and now is the Outstanding Staff Award.
3. Nominations of a staff member may be made by any member of the faculty or staff of the College. Each nomination must be restricted to no more than three (3) pages of information. These three pages should include direct evidence of the nominee’s qualities in each of the categories listed below. The three pages may also include support letters and/or other materials the nominator wants the selection committee to consider. All materials in excess of the three pages limit will be ignored.
4. Only one nomination will be considered for a person in one year. If multiple nominations are received for one individual, the nominations will be returned to the nominators to work together on a single nomination.

Categories

The categories in which each nominee will be evaluated are:

1. Quality of work
2. Quantity of work
3. Knowledge of the job
4. Attitude towards the job
5. Interaction with and attitude toward other people
6. Self improvement activities and results
7. Ability to work with minimal supervision (self-starter)

Each category will be weighed equally.

STUDENT AWARDS

Purpose: To recognize outstanding members of the CEAT student body.

Procedure

1. The College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology will annually recognize outstanding students at the annual awards presentation. The school heads and CEAT dean will review all nominations for their specific college and select the corresponding award.
2. Nominations of a student may be made by any member of the faculty or staff of the College. Each nomination must be restricted to no more than three (3) pages of information. These three pages should include direct evidence of the nominee’s qualities in each of the categories listed below. The three pages may also include support letters and/or other materials the nominator wants the selection committee to consider. All materials in excess of the three pages limit will be ignored.
3. Only one nomination will be considered for a person in one year. If multiple nominations are received for one individual, the nominations will be returned to the nominators to work together on a single nomination.

Awards

1. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding Senior Award
   1. (for fall, spring, or summer undergraduate grads of that academic year)
   2. Chosen from outstanding school senior nominees by the Dean of CEAT
2. CEAT Dean’s Exceptional Leadership Senior Award
   1. (for fall, spring, or summer undergraduate grads of that academic year)
   2. Chosen from outstanding school senior nominees by the Dean of CEAT.
3. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding MAE Senior (chosen by school)
4. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding ECE Senior (chosen by school)
5. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding IEM Senior (chosen by school)
6. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding CivE Senior (chosen by school)
7. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding ChemE Senior (chosen by school)
8. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding BAE Senior (chosen by school)
9. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding SOA Senior (chosen by school)
10. CEAT Dean’s Outstanding DET Senior (chosen by school)

Previous Winners

2011	Jillian Conaghan	Jana Moore	Karla Sisco	Doug Enns
2012	Casey Ward	Toni Connelly	Mike Sturzenbecker	Ann Moffat
2013	Delpha Whitefield	Sharon Green	Kristi Wheeler	William Holloway
2014	N/A
2015	Alex LeGrant	Clint Clausing	Paula Kendrick	Kimberly Nolting
2016	Shelly Potter	Meghan Hughes	Paddy Metcalf	Amanda Williams

Award recipients from the past five years may not be nominated again this year.

If you have any questions, please contact Amanda Lowe at amanda.lowe@okstate.edu.