[CCoE Notice] CCE Faculty Research Awards: FINAL REMINDER

[Fritz Claydon]

CCE Faculty:

FINAL REMINDER

This is a call for nominations for the following faculty excellence 
awards for the academic year 2009-2010.  Please submit your nominations 
to me by COB March 22, 2010.
 
Fluor-Daniel Faculty Excellence Award: The highest honor accorded to a 
Cullen College of Engineering faculty member, this award symbolizes 
overall career excellence. 
 
The Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award:  Given to a young faculty 
member, eight years or less from the date of the doctorate, who has made 
an outstanding research contribution. 
 
The Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award:  Given to a faculty member 
whose research effort has brought significant recognition to the 
research activities of the college.
 
Nominations should consist of:  (a) a letter of nomination limited to 
two pages and (b) a copy of the nominee's vita (on file in this office), 
which will be attached to the nomination when received and then 
transmitted to the Research Awards Committee; further requirements of 
the Fluor-Daniel Faculty Excellence Award are noted below.  If 
additional information is needed, the committee will contact the nominees.
 
The following rules pertain:
 
·          Nominees for the Fluor-Daniel Faculty Excellence Award must 
be full-time tenured faculty who have held a continuous appointment in 
the Cullen College of Engineering for at least five academic years prior 
to the year of nomination.  Nominees must demonstrate excellence in all 
areas of faculty responsibility.  The selection committee will 
consider:  (a) the significance and national/international impact of the 
candidate's research or creative activity; (b) evidence of outstanding 
teaching ability; and (c) distinctive service to the College, the 
profession, and the community.  Documentation of quality teaching should 
be provided, along with a list of all graduate students supervised, 
together with their current positions if they have graduated. 
 
  
·          Nominations for the Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award 
and the Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award should be restricted to 
faculty who had joined the Cullen College of Engineering at least three 
years prior to the time of their nomination.
 
·          No member of the Dean or Provost's office is eligible for the 
Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award or for the Senior Faculty 
Research Excellence Award.
 
·          A previous recipient of the Senior Faculty Research 
Excellence Award is eligible for reconsideration for the Award only in 
the event of significant contribution in a field of work distinct from 
that recognized in the previous Award.
 
·          The Research Awards Committee shall make recommendations to 
the Dean.  
 
·          No nominations will be accepted after the deadline of  COB 
March 22, 2010.




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-- 
Fritz Claydon, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Dean of Administration and Research
Cullen College of Engineering
University of Houston
713.743.4204
fclaydon at uh.edu

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