<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Dear CCE Faculty:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">This is a call for nominations for the following faculty excellence awards for the academic year 2016-2017. <b>Please submit your nominations to <a href="mailto:dean@egr.uh.edu">dean@egr.uh.edu</a> by COB March 16, 2017. NOTE that only 1 nominee in each category will be accepted from each department.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Fluor-Daniel Faculty Excellence Award: The highest honor accorded to a Cullen College of Engineering faculty member, this award symbolizes overall career excellence.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Nominations should consist of: (a) a letter of nomination limited to two pages and (b) a copy of the nominee's CV. If additional information is needed, the committee will contact the nominees.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">The following rules pertain:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px; "><br></span></div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 16px; ">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 16px;">Departments are restricted to 1 nominee in each category.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 16px;">The Research Awards Committee shall make recommendations to the Dean.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 16px;">No nominations will be accepted after the deadline of COB March 16, 2017.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Best regards</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hanadi</span></div></body></html>