Teaching Excellence
University Teaching & Learning AwardsSee Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CHSE) site for an overview of the University of Melbourne Teaching Awards and Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching. 2007 The Edward Brown Award was won by Dr Sandra Kentish, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 2005 Dr Philip Collier, Geomatics, received the Edward Brown Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr Collier is an expert in geomatics who has consistently achieved high Quality of Teaching scores for complex subjects.
Engineering Teaching Excellence AwardsTeaching Excellence Awards 2006The Dean of Engineering Professor Jannie van Deventer announced the recipients of the Engineering Teaching Excellence Awards at the Faculty's annual Dean's Presentation Ceremony. The Presentation Ceremony is an opportunity for the Faculty to recognise the achievements of students as well as its teaching staff. The recipients of the Awards were selected by a panel and were each awarded a grant to support their research activities. The highest ranked of the three recipients was awarded the Kelvin Medal and a years membership to the Kelvin Club, courtesy of the Kelvin Club. The recipients of the 2006 Teaching Excellence Awards were:
Congratulations to Dr Shanika Karunasekera on being awarded the Kelvin Medal for 2006. Previous Engineering Teaching Excellence Awards2005
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* Winner of Kelvin Medal
Universitas 21 FellowshipsDr Sandra Kentish awarded Universitas 21 Fellowship: 2004Sandra Kentish's U21 Fellowship will take her to four U21 institutions that teach chemical engineering undergraduate courses - the Universities of Nottingham, Edinburgh, and Birmingham in the UK, and the National University of Singapore. Her interests fall in three areas: facilitating undergraduate student exchanges between U21 institutions; studying in depth 'exit transition' - the movement of students from university into their first employment positions; and to present a teaching-related paper at the World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Glasgow in July 2005. Dr Kentish plans to draw on her U21 Fellowship investigations to publish and distribute course advice for students planning exchanges between the University of Melbourne and the four institutions she visits. She also sees the experience gained as being useful in advising and mentoring
undergraduate students who are planning exchanges and those who come to Melbourne
on exchanges.
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