{"216281":{"#nid":"216281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ECE Faculty Commended for Teaching Excellence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning named five faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as recipients of the 2013 Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award. The faculty members and the courses for which they were honored include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMagnus Egerstedt\u003C\/strong\u003E, ECE 8823 Networked Control Systems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrancesco Fedele\u003C\/strong\u003E (jointly appointed with ECE; primary appointment in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering), ECE 2025 Introduction to Signal Processing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark A. Richards\u003C\/strong\u003E, ECE 2025 Introduction to Signal Processing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorge F. Riley\u003C\/strong\u003E, ECE 3090 Software Fundamentals for Engineering Systems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJustin K. Romberg\u003C\/strong\u003E, ECE 6250 Advanced Digital Signal Processing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis award is given to faculty members with exceptional response rates and scores on the Course-Instructor Opinion Survey (CIOS), an instrument that is distributed to students at the conclusion of semester classes. Taking the class size into account, evaluators for this award also look for a robust response rate (85 percent or better) and a high rating on instructor effectiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll five professors had teaching effectiveness scores ranging from 4.8 to 5.0 and evaluation response rates ranging from 88 to 100 percent for the courses that they taught. \u201cWe are extremely fortunate to have many gifted teachers in our school,\u201d said Steven W. McLaughlin, Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of ECE. \u201cI am very proud of the dedication and passion that these faculty members have shown in teaching our undergraduate and graduate students.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning named five faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as recipients of the 2013 Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning named five faculty members from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as recipients of the 2013 Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2013-06-04 11:26:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:20","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"125291":{"id":"125291","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower","body":null,"created":"1449178604","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:44","changed":"1475894749","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:49","alt":"Tech Tower","file":{"fid":"194497","name":"tech-tower.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tech-tower_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tech-tower_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":164905,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tech-tower_0.jpg?itok=ysu1LgS2"}}},"media_ids":["125291"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}