2023 Teaching Excellence and Top 5% Awards

Quality and innovative instruction are top priorities of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. We recognize excellence in instruction by awarding an annual Teaching Excellence Award and through selection to our Top 5% Teachers List. Student nominations and feedback are reviewed by a faculty committee in determining these honors.

This year’s recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award is Yan Shoshitaishvili, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. 

Below are the top 5% teaching faculty members listed by school. 

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Claire Honeycutt, assistant professor

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Rida Bazzi, associate professor
Heni Ben Amor, associate professor
Chris Bryan, assistant professor
Theodore Pavlic, associate professor
Yan Shoshitaishvili, assistant professor
Siddharth Srivastava, assistant professor

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

James Aberle, associate professor
David Allee, professor
Bertan Bakkaloglu, professor
Yu Cao, professor
Chaitali Chakrabarti, professor
Zachary Holman, associate professor
Jennifer Kitchen, associate professor
Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola, professor
Jennie Si, professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Candace Chan, associate professor
Werner Dahm, professor
Yang Jiao, associate professor
Ryan Milcarek, assistant professor
Jay Oswald, associate professor
Sefaattin Tongay, professor
Joshua Wilbur, assistant teaching professor
Zhe Xu, assistant professor

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

Troy McDaniel, assistant professor

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Christian Hoover, assistant professor
Avi Wiezel, associate professor

The Polytechnic School

Jessica Barnett, assistant teaching professor
Kassidy Breaux, assistant teaching professor
Mary Margaret Chantre, instructor
Daniel Frank, assistant teaching professor
Ayan Mallik, assistant professor
Pavlos Mikellides, associate professor
Deborah Prewitt, associate teaching professor
Laurel Ralston, teaching professor

Academic and Student Affairs

Kristen Ward, associate teaching professor