Teacher and Staff of the Year Honored; Advising Excellence Noted

5/20/2015 Susan Mumm, Editor

Written by Susan Mumm, Editor

Teacher and Staff of the Year Honored; Advising Excellence Noted

 

Assistant Prof. Tomasz Kozlowski, College of Engineering at Illinois Dean Andreas Cangellaris, and Assistant Prof. Clair Sullivan
Assistant Prof. Tomasz Kozlowski, College of Engineering at Illinois Dean Andreas Cangellaris, and Assistant Prof. Clair Sullivan

Assistant Prof. Clair J. Sullivan is the 2015 winner of the American Nuclear Society student chapter’s Teacher of the Year Award, and staff newcomer Rodney D. Siders has garnered the first-ever ANS chapter’s Staff of the Year award.

 

Sullivan, who also shared the Teacher of the Year Award in 2013, has been included on the List of Teachers Ranked Excellent for four consecutive semesters. She has taught NPRE 451 (NPRE Laboratory). Sullivan also taught NPRE 498 (Advanced Radiation Detector Concepts) in Spring 2015. This past spring, she revamped the class, having students build and program detectors from the ground up.

The work of Sullivan and Assistant Prof. Tomasz Kozlowski this past year to guide Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering students has earned for each of them the 2015 Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising.

 

NPRE Department Head Jim Stubbins, Rod Siders, and ANS Student Chapter President Aveek Kapat
NPRE Department Head Jim Stubbins, Rod Siders, and ANS Student Chapter President Aveek Kapat

Engineering Council chooses the top 10 percent of engineering advisors for this award, recognizing the important role that advisors play in the academic planning process of every engineering student on campus. Students nominate the candidates.

 

As an office support associate, Siders has made a positive impact on the lives of the students in his first year in NPRE. Among his duties have been booking travel, sending and receiving all deliveries, and dealing with students’ questions when they stop by the departmental office.


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This story was published May 20, 2015.