IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award

Sponsored by: Leon K. Kirchmayer Memorial Fund

Nomination Form |  Recipients  |  Committee Roster

Nomination Deadline - 31 January

The IEEE Graduate Teaching Award is a Technical Field Award established by the Board of Directors in 1990 and renamed in honor of Leon K. Kirchmayer in 2002. Dr. Kirchmayer was well known and revered throughout the world for his commitment to students and education.

This award honors teachers of electrical and electronics engineering and the related disciplines, 'for inspirational teaching of graduate students in the IEEE fields of interest.'

A primary goal of the IEEE is to ensure that the Institute Awards Program provides due recognition for superior achievement in the engineering profession. To that end, and in response to the desire of the membership, the Awards Board, and Board of Directors that the field of education be more broadly recognized, this award for graduate teaching was added to the Awards Program. Selection criteria include such contributions as curriculum development, authorship of course materials, involvement with students and faculty in advisory capacities, as well as 'attracting students to engineering and scientific professions, and preparing them for effective careers in engineering and the sciences.'

Recipient selection is administered by the IEEE Awards Board through the Technical Field Awards Council.  It is awarded to an individual only.

In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: excellence in teaching graduate students, curriculum development with the inclusion of current research and development knowledge that reflects the state of the art in courses, authorship of course material for graduate students; and involvement with and direction of students to prepare them for effective careers in engineering and the sciences, and the quality of the nomination.

The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium.