Teaching Award

  Martin Lux

The 2012 Teaching Award winners were honored for their oustanding achievements in teaching at the University during the RWTHtransparent event. On the right: The current DAAD award winner Elvire Kouakep Kouadijo, who received the award for outstanding achivements and particular volunteer involvement during and aside from her studies.

 

Honoring Outstanding Performance in Teaching

Since 2011, RWTH Aachen has awarded a Teaching Award, in order to recognize outstanding performance in teaching at the university.  The Teaching Award is endowed with 18000 Euros, first place with 9000 Euros, second place with 6000 Euros, and third place with 3000 Euros. The respective prize money should be invested in teaching and research, whereby two thirds of the funds must be used for teaching.

Support of the Learning Process and Superior Involvement

The tradition of the Teaching Award was also continued in 2012. In accordance with RWTH Aachen's Excellent Teaching Institutional Strategy, which aims at improving basic teaching at RWTH Aachen, teachers should be promoted to particularly commit themselves to very good, innovative teaching. Outstanding teaching strategies, the support for students, or superior commitment to teaching are at the focus.

Since RWTH Aachen has an extraordinarily broad sprectrum of classes and subjects, many activities are suited to the Teaching Award. The Rectorate looks forward to numerous nominations.

 

Nominations and Process

Nominations are collected by the Department of Planning and are submitted to the Rectorate's Committee for Quality Management in Teaching, if all formal criteria are fulfilled. The committee evalutes nominations on the basis of the criteria for awarding the Teaching Award and then make a recommendation to the Rectorate.

 

2012 Teaching Award

After extensive consideration of the 2012 nominations, the Rectorate's Committee for Quality Management in Teaching recommended the award winners below for the 2012 Teaching Award. The Rectorate agreed with this vote. The Teaching Award Ceremony will take place on January 25, 2013, as part of the framework for the celebratory opening ceremony of the event "RWTH transparent".

First Place

First place was awarded to Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Gries and Jacqueline Lemm, Institute of Textile Technology, and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roger Häußling, Institute of Sociology, for the seminar "Interdisciplinarity of Sociology in Organizations". The interdisciplinary seminar taught students from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities technical aspects, in which the social relevance of a topic from the field of textile technology was discussed by project groups.

Second Place

Second place went to Dr. med.dent. Nicole Rafai, MPH for the seminar "Method Diversity in Total Prosthetics", a four week long intensive course in the preclinical period of dentistry studies with a strong focus on dentisty.

Third Place

Third place was awarded to Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.pol. Florian Siems, Teaching and Research Area Technology and Service Marketing from the School of Business and Economics.