Teaching Awards
Ronald W. Pratt Outstanding Teaching Award for Faculty
Faculty are nominated for the Pratt award by current and former students. The department then collects letters of recommendation from other ECE professors and colleagues, as well as from former students who have since moved on to graduate work or careers in industry.
| Year | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Katherine Rose Driggs-Campbell |
| 2023 | Steven Sam Lumetta |
| 2022 | Elyse Rosenbaum |
| 2021 | Suma Pallathadka Bhat |
| 2020 | Yuting Wu Chen |
| 2019 | Arijit Banerjee |
| 2018 | Pierre Moulin |
| 2017 | Robert Pilawa-Podgurski |
| 2016 | Bruce Hajek |
| 2015 | Rakesh Kumar |
| 2013 | Erhan Kudeki |
| 2012 | Lynford L Goddard |
| 2011 | Jennifer Truman Bernhard |
| 2010 | Tangul Basar |
| 2009 | Jonathan Makela |
| 2007 | Bruce Hajek |
| 2006 | Douglas L Jones |
| 2004 | Kyekyoon Kim |
| 2003 | Chris Hadjicostis |
| 2002 | Wen-mei Hwu |
| 2001 | Andreas C Cangellaris |
| 2000 | James Gary Eden |
| 1999 | Gregory Stillman, Farid Najm |
| 1998 | David C. Munson, Jr. |
| 1997 | Ricardo B. Uribe |
George Anner Excellence in Undergrad Teaching Award
The award honors the legacy of Professor George Anner by recognizing outstanding Illinois ECE faculty members who are following in his footsteps by mentoring, teaching, and inspiring a new generation of students. The George Anner Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award was made possible through the financial support of alumnus Gerald T. Marcyk (BSEE '73, MS '76, PhD '78).
| Year | Faculty |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Arijit Banerjee |
| 2023 | Nickvash Kani |
| 2022 | Volodymyr Kindratenko |
| 2021 | Sanjay Patel |
| 2020 | Brian T Cunningham |
| 2019 | Chandrasekhar Radhakrishnan |
| 2018 | Erhan Kudeki |
| 2017 | Dane Joseph Sievers |
| 2016 | David Varodayan |
Harold L. Olesen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Students
The award is made each semester to a graduate student or students teaching in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to recognize an outstanding effort in undergraduate teaching.
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2023-2024 | Jason Paximadas, Sumedh Vemuganti, Sung Woo Jeon, Pranay Sen, Anjana Samarakoon, Michelle Zhang |
| 2022-2023 | Xiang Li, Elie Libbos, Andrew Joseph Page, Sanklap Yamsani |
| 2020-2021 | Aamir Hasan, Kevin Wandke, Ali Yekkehkhany, Raman Kumar, Liz Li, Christopher Ryu, Ben Walt |
| 2019-2020 | Mihir Vishwanath Iyer, Michael Jame Silkaitis, Yamuna Dilip Phal, Shivang, Umur Darbaz, Corey Ethan Snyder, Lonna Edwards |
| 2018-2019 | Dario Aranguiz, Benjamin Eng, Byung Hoon Min, Sakshi Srivastava, Elias Wilken-Resman |
| 2017-2018 | Sara Bahramianparchekoohi, Jacob Bryan, Matt Peretic, Michael Wei |
| 2016-2017 | Xu Chen, William Goldshlag, Peter Kairouz |
| 2014-2015 | Leslie Hwang, Brian Harding |
| 2013-2014 | Yun Han, Jerry Yang |
| 2012-2013 | Nathan Jack, Michael Jo |
| 2011-2012 | Daniel Manjarres, Luke Pfister, Michael Rogers |
| 2010-2011 | Patrick Goh, Pablo Reyes |
| 2009-2010 | Nady Obeid, Alan Gostin, Bryce Lobdell |
| 2008-2009 | Shaun Armstrong, Chad Carlson |
| 2007-2008 | Idan Lupinsky, Geoffrey Herman |
| 2006-2007 | Uttam Reddy, Alex Spektor, Marco Amrhein |
| 2005-2006 | John King, Joe Meier |
| 2004-2005 | Andrea Mitofsky, Jonathan Holm |
| 2003-2004 | Andrew Ranck, Kyle Jones |
| 2002-2003 | Eric Dunn, Bradley Griffis |
| 2001-2002 | Jeffrey Feng, Julio Urbina |
| 2000-2001 | James Geis, Jiunn Benjamin Heng |
| 1999-2000 | Karen Coperich, Andrew Smolik, Peter Leven |
| 1998-1999 | Jacob Janovetz, Jay Moorman, Shashi Jain, Mika Palac |
| 1997-1998 | Shamik Mukherjee, Kevin Squire, Mike Tompkins |
| 1996-1997 | Adam Miller, Michael Kramer |
| 1995-1996 | Eric Meidel, Dan Scherrer, Daniel Connors, Rajeev Goel |
| 1994-1995 | John Belmonte, Jay Kruse, Byron Truax |
| 1993-1994 | Tony Curtis, Michael Hartig, Hem Satsangi |
| 1992-1993 | Dane Dwyer, Kevin Lee, Rob Spence |
| 1991-1992 | Allen Hanson, Tim Peck, Jeff Schiano |
Support ECE's Faculty
If you would like to help ECE support and maintain its outstanding faculty, please consider making a financial contribution. Donations can be made using the online giving tool located in our Giving section. Or, if you prefer, you may contact Heather Vazquez.