Faculty Senate Faculty Excellence Committee

Members

Wendy Helmstetter, Library, Chair
Jean-Paul Pinelli, Civil Engineering
Al Brown, Chemistry

Each year the committee solicits faculty to submit dossiers for
consideration for the faculty excellent awards.
A list of expectations for such a dossier
summary can be found on pages 248-249, 268-269, 42-43, and 49 of archive.tif.
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The Provost thinks that receipt of the Teaching Excellence Award is
necessary for one wishing to gain promotion with a record that favors
teaching substantially more than research.

2007 Recipients

Kerry Bruce Clark Award for Teaching Excellence
Giorgios Anagnoustopoulos, Electrical and Computer Engineering

This award memorializes the contributions from Prof. Clark from Biological Sciences.
Prof. Anagnoustopoulos won two awards from NSF, including a Research Experience for
Undergraduates grant in machine learning. The collaborative research grants total more than
$260,000 and allow 25 undergraduates to conduct research at Florida Tech
and other universities in the state.

Award for Excellence in Research - Jean-Paul Pinelli, Civil Engineering

Pinelli is the recipient of several grants for hurricane damage research.
Most recently, he earned a $300,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation to work on a wireless sensor network for monitoring hurricane
wind impacts on coastal structures.

This is a continuation of the work he did in 2006 under a Florida Sea Grant
Program award that funded a joint project with the University of Florida.
In addition, he has led the engineering team that developed the Florida Public
Hurricane Model for residential structures, and recently received a new award
to extend the model to commercial structures.

Andrew Revay Award for Excellence in Service - Carmo D'Cruz, Systems Engineering

D’Cruz earned a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellowship that allowed him to establish
a chapter of Students in Free Enterprise on campus. He continues to serve as the
adviser. D’Cruz is also a past chair of the American Society for Engineering
Education Entrepreneurship division. He mentors junior high and high
school students, encouraging them to pursue science and engineering careers.

Prior to 2007, only one person had received the Lynn Weaver Award for
lifetime service to Florida Tech. The award, named for President Emeritus Weaver,
who was president from 1987 to 2002. In 2007, there were three recipients:

Gary Wells, Department Head, Biological Sciences

Wells was a National Institutes of Health fellow at the University
of Oklahoma and a National Science Foundation fellow at the University of
California, San Diego, and the University of Wisconsin. He joined the
Florida Tech Department of Biological Sciences in 1973 and was department
head there since 1985.

Bob Fronk, Science and Math Education and Interim Dean of Business

At the university since 1974, Prof. Fronk created Florida Tech’s master’s
degree program in computer education in 1984. He was co-editor of the Florida
Science Teacher, the journal of the Florida Association of Science Teachers,
for three years. Upon retirement he was vice president for academic affairs
as well as interim dean for the College of Business.

Dick Enstice, College of Business and University College

In addition to his duties within his college, Prof. Enstice
proved capable in several administrative roles. Several faculty
thought that he did a very good job in keeping the university
financially afloat during several challenging years in the
1990's.

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Self-Nomination for Awards? - page 70
President's Teaching Excellence Supplement - page 80