AAE Assistant Prof. Michael Grant has been selected as the College of Engineering’s nominee for Purdue’s Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award.  

 

The purpose of this award is to honor assistant professors with two or more years of service who have established an early record of exceptional teaching. Nominees are judged based on instructional effectiveness, course instruction improvement and innovation, contact with students outside the classroom, service as a research mentor for undergraduate students outside of normal classroom activity, and participation in college/school or university committees related to undergraduate education.

 

"Purdue established the Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award in 2014 to recognize assistant professors who are outstanding undergraduate teachers,” said Kathleen Howell, Associate Dean for Engineering and Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics. “These faculty demonstrate superior ability in communicating material to students and stimulate their desire to learn. Outstanding teachers also recognize that their teaching responsibility to students does not stop at the classroom door.  I cannot think of anyone who exemplifies this philosophy better than Mike Grant!"

 

Prof. Grant’s nomination will be presented to the university selection committee on February 27th. He will be recognized as the College of Engineering’s Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award recipient at the Faculty Awards of Excellence Banquet on April 7, 2017.