The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Academic Effectiveness are thrilled to announce the 2024 Georgia Tech CIOS Award winners.
The Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Annual CIOS Award is open to full-time Georgia Tech employees who teach credit courses and who administer the Course Instructor Opinion Survey (CIOS). Each year, 40 to 50 winners are selected and announced each January for courses taught during the previous calendar year. The generous gifts in the Jack and Frances Mundy and Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard endowments provide funding for a $1000 stipend awarded to winners.
The purpose of this award is to recognize instructors with exceptional response rates and scores on CIOS. Qualifiers for the award must have at least an 85% student response rate. The CIOS score used to determine winners of the award is based on the sum of three scale items: (#16) instructor’s respect and concern for students; (#17) instructor’s level of enthusiasm about teaching the course; and (#18) instructor’s ability to stimulate interest in the subject matter. Ties are broken by response rate.
The number of small classes (up to 39 students) and large classes (40 or more students) eligible for the awards is based on how many classes of each size were offered at Georgia Tech in the past three years.
Nominations are not accepted for these awards, and employees who are visiting faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, upper-level administrators (assistant deans, associate deans, deans, provost) are not eligible for awards. This is the first year part-time faculty are eligible for the CIOS Awards.
Below are the 2024 CIOS Award recipients:
College of Computing – Small Classes
| Cedric Pradalier, recognized for CS 7644: ML For Robotics |
| Umakishore Ramachandran, recognized for CS 6211: Sys Design Cloud Comput |
College of Computing – Large Classes
| Matthew Gombolay, recognized for CS 7648: Interactive Robo Learn |
College of Design – Small Classes
| Lisa Marks, recognized for ID 6520: Crafting Design Methods |
College of Design – Large Classes
| Brittney Boykin, recognized for MUSI 3241: Chorale |
College of Engineering – Small Classes
| Balakrishna Pai, recognized for BMED 3610: Quant Engr Physio Lab II |
| Dan Kotlyar, recognized for NRE 4210: Nuclear Reactor Theory |
| David Myers, recognized for BMED 8813: Special Topics: Translational Microsystems |
| Richard Simmons, recognized for ME 4315: Energy Systems Analy&Dgn |
| Ryan Sherman, recognized for CEE 8813: Special Topics: Behavior of Metal Structures |
| Todd Long, recognized for CEE 6605: Transport Admin & Policy |
| Yusuf Yaras, recognized for ME 2110: Creative Decisions& Dsgn |
College of Engineering – Large Classes
| Brendan Saltaformaggio, recognized for ECE 4117: Intro Malware Rev Eng |
| Karl Meyer, recognized for CEE 4530: Timber & Masonry Design |
| David Smith, recognized for ME 3180: Machine Design |
| David Torello, recognized for ME 2202: Dynamics of Rigid Bodies |
| Kelly Griendling, recognized for AE 1601: Introduction to AE |
College of Sciences – Small Classes
| Lewis Wheaton, recognized for APPH 6400: Human Neuroanatomy |
| Robert Richards, recognized for BIOS 4460: Comm Biologicl Research |
| Samantha Wilson, recognized for EAS 4803: Special Topics: EAS & Policy |
| Woon Ju Park, recognized for PSYC 4803: Special Topics |
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts – Small Classes
| Allegra Smith, recognized for LMC 3813: Special Topics: Content Strategy |
| Andrea Jonsson, recognized for FREN 4500: Intercultural Seminar |
| Antonio Cardentey, recognized for SPAN 3813: Special Topics: Intro to Caribbean Culture |
| Dana Viezure, recognized for HTS 3029: Ancient Rome |
| Danielle Geary, recognized for SPAN 3101: Conversation I |
| John Cressler, recognized for IAC 2002: Science,Eng,and Religion |
| Kathrin Koppe, recognized for GRMN 1002: Elementary German II |
| Lee Oh, recognized for KOR 2001: Intermediate Korean I |
| Robert Hines, recognized for INTA 6103: International Security |
| Satomi Suzuki Chenoweth, recognized for JAPN 1001: Elementary Japanese I |
| Seung-Eun Chang, recognized for KOR 2001: Intermediate Korean I |
| Stephanie Boulard, recognized for FREN 4245: Women In Film |
| Yumi Parks, recognized for JAPN 2001: Intermediate Japanese I |
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts – Large Classes
| Leonard Stendig, recognized for ECON 2105: Prin of Macroeconomics |
Scheller College of Business – Small Classes
| Ryan Blunck, recognized for MGT 4043: Advanced Fin Reporting |
Scheller College of Business – Large Classes
| Frank Rothaermel, recognized for IMBA 6132: Strategy |
| Satyajit Karnik, recognized for MGT 4067: Fncl Mkts Trading&Struct |
| Jacqueline Garner, recognized for MGT 4073: Financial Modeling |
| Dong Liu, recognized for MGT 3101: Organizational Behavior |
Graduate Student Recognition
While graduate student instructors are not eligible for the CIOS Awards, we want to extend our congratulations to those with CIOS scores in the same range as the award winners.
| Guergana Ilieva, recognized for ISYE 3133: Engineering Optimization |
| Julia Lin, recognized for BIOS 1108L: Principles of Biology II Lab |
| Samuel Talkington, recognized for ECE 2020: Digital System Design |
| Sriram Parthasarathy Kalathoor, recognized for AE 3030: Aerodynamics |
