In a rare circumstance, EEMI colleagues won both of the 2023 GW Engineering Excellence Awards for Teaching. EEMI ExecuAve Director Dr. Jonathan Deason won the SEAS DisAnguished Teaching Award and EEMI Internal Affiliate Dr. John Paul Helveston won the SEAS Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award. The awards were presented by SEAS Dean John Lach at a November 15 ceremony aOended by SEAS faculty, students and staff.
GW Engineering Excellence Awards for Teaching awards were established in 2009 to recognize and celebrate teaching success of regular SEAS faculty members. Criteria for the awards are based on student evaluaAons, peer assessments of teaching, student feedback, scope of courses taught, mentoring of students, course and program development, and innovaAve and effecAve teaching pracAces. EvaluaAons are conducted by the SEAS Teaching Awards CommiOee appointed by the Dean.
Professors Deason and Helveston both made presentaAons of their approaches to teaching at an assembly of the SEAS faculty before the November 15 awards ceremony.
Past EEMI winners of the SEAS Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award are EEMI Director of Energy InnovaAon Dr. Saniya LeBlanc and EEMI Internal Affiliate Dr. Ekundayo Shi;u.