The Texas A&M University System has recognized 10 Texas A&M Engineering faculty members with the 2009 Teaching Excellence Award.

Dr. Daniel F. Jennings, the I. Andrew Rader Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution, was among the Top 5 percent of faculty honorees.

Other recipients include:

• Luciana Barroso, associate professor, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
• Jaime Grunlan, assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Kalyana Nakshatrala, assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Arunachalam Narayanan, assistant professor, Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution
• Devesh Ranjan, assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Bryan Rasmussen, assistant professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Lin Shao, assistant professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering
• Byung-Jun Yoon, assistant professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Salih Yurttas, senior lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

These faculty were among the 54 Texas A&M University honorees and the 144 system-wide faculty members recognized by the A&M System, which awarded more than $500,000 in the second presentation of the Teaching Excellence Awards, a voluntary, student-selected honors program launched in Fall 2008. Awards are based on rankings from uations created and administered by students, with weighting for factors such as class size.

The program was initiated by Chancellor Michael D. McKinney in 2008 to honor and financially reward the system’s top teachers as selected by students. For the spring 2009 semester, the program expanded to all the campuses in the A&M System. All faculty who teach at least a 3-hour course are eligible.

Lesley V. Kriewald, lesleyk@tamu.edu

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