2025 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 Joshua Daymude, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence.
Below are the top 5% of teaching faculty members listed by school.
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Scott Beeman, assistant professor
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Aman Arora, assistant professor
Chris Bryan, assistant professor
Joshua Daymude, assistant professor
Yanjie Fu, associate professor
Siddharth Srivastava, associate professor
President’s Professor Teresa Wu
“YZ” Yezhou Yang, associate professor
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
David Allee, professor
Bertan Bakkaloglu, professor
Jennifer Blain, professor
Gautam Dasarathy, associate professor
Michael Goryll, associate professor
Jiaqi Gu, assistant professor
Keith Holbert, associate professor
Jennifer Kitchen, associate professor
Michael Kozicki, professor
Mike Ranjram, assistant professor
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Werner Dahm, emeritus professor
Yang Jiao, professor
Hyunglae Lee, associate professor
Jay Oswald, associate professor
Seth Ariel Tongay, professor
Zhe Xu, assistant professor
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
President’s Professor Thomas Sugar
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Barry Kutz, assistant teaching professor
The Polytechnic School
Kassidy Breaux, assistant teaching professor
Elliot Cherner, faculty associate
Derex Griffin, assistant teaching professor
Katherine Hilleman, instructor
Nadia Kellam, associate professor
Ayan Mallik, assistant professor
Emily Sangmeister, instructor
Anthony Wende, assistant teaching professor
Academic and Student Affairs
Robert Green, instructional professional