ME Department - UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS

The Dean's Award for Creative Achievement was initiated in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture in December 1991. The objective of this award is to recognize and reward creativity among students of the Faculty in their approach to academic work.

Nature of Award: The award consists of a certificate in testimony of creative achievement as well as the inscription of the recipient's name on a special board placed in FEA. A student who receives the award three times will be presented with a $500 prize.

Number of Awards: One award may be presented yearly, depending on eligibility, to a student in each of the following programs: Architecture, Graphic Design, Civil Engineering, Computer and Communications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Eligibility: Undergraduate students from all classes in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture who have demonstrated creativity in their approach to academic work as applied to projects, problem solving, laboratory, shop work, etc. are eligible without restriction. If the work in question is a group activity, the award may be given to each member of the group.

Procedure for Nomination and Selection: Faculty members shall submit to the chairperson of the department concerned, just after the final examinations of the spring semester, the names of candidates for the award with justification and supporting material. Selection of the candidate from each program shall be made by the respective department and communicated to the dean for voting by the faculty at the time of voting of degrees at the end of the academic year.

Distinguished Graduate Award

The Distinguished Graduate Award, first announced in June 1998, is given to the graduating senior student who demonstrates high academic achievement, outstanding character, and contribution to the department.

Number of Awards: One Award may be presented yearly, depending on eligibility, to a student in each of the following programs: Architecture, Graphic Design, Civil Engineering, Computer and Communications Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Nomination: The candidate should be nominated by at least three faculty members. The nomination should come in the form of a letter that addresses academic performance, character and contribution to the department.

Academic Performance: The candidate for the award should have been placed on the Dean’s Honor List for Terms VII, VIII, X and XI and should have been nominated for graduation with distinction or high distinction.

Character: The nomination letter for the student should include a section addressing the student’s character and should include examples that demonstrate it vis-à-vis his/her classmates and teachers. Emphasis should be given to evidence of exemplary, ethical, and responsible conduct inside and outside the classroom setting.

Contribution to the Department: The nomination brief should address and evaluate the contributions that the student made to the learning environment in his/her classes and to the department as a whole. This section should include supporting examples.

Voting: The successful candidate for the award should acquire the vote of at least two thirds of the voting faculty members of the department.

Award: The Award will consist of an engraved plaque and a certificate signed by the chairman of the department and the dean of the school.

Penrose Award

In 1955 Mrs. Stephen Penrose initiated the Penrose Award in honor of her late husband, President Penrose.

Basis for Award: This award is made on the basis of the best combination of scholarship, character, leadership, and contribution to the university as a whole.

Nature of the Award: The award consists of engraving the recipient's name on a plaque that is kept on display in Jafet Library.

Nomination and Selection Procedures:

Each member of the faculty is entitled to nominate one student. The nominee for the Penrose Award must have attained a cumulative average of not less than 75 based on terms VI, VII, VIII, and X for Engineering students, and terms VIII, X, XI, and XIII for Architecture students and have not repeated any of the above-mentioned terms.
Upon receiving the nominations made by the individual faculty members, the Students Affairs Committee will study and appraise each nominee, and will then prepare a selected list of three names, or a list of all nominated if less than three, for presentation to the faculty for final vote.
A faculty meeting will be called and the list mentioned in ‘2’ above will be distributed. Final voting and selection, by the "voting faculty" will be made at this meeting. The name of the nominee who obtains a simple majority of the votes will be transmitted to the Board of Academic Deans for final approval.