Four engineering professors each received teaching honours from students in the UBC School of Engineering at the Okanagan campus.
Mechanical engineering instructor Yang Cao received the Pioneer’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes the efforts of an outstanding professor who taught in a lecture, lab or tutorial section in first or second year.
This year also marks the graduation of the school’s first cohort of students, who began their studies in 2005. The Class of 2010 established the Grad Gala Teaching Excellence Awards in which the class polled and voted for a top professor in each discipline. The winners are: Asst. Prof.Jonathan Holzman, Dept. of Electrical Engineering; Asst. Prof. Homayoun Najjaran, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and Asst. Prof. Ahmad Rteil, Dept. of Civil Engineering.
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